THE FLOWER GROWER'S GUIDE. 



of bloom, while their delicious perfume will pervade the garden throughout the 

 season. In the centre of this hedge is an arbour, to be covered with free blooming 

 Ayrshire Eoses, such as Dundee Eambler, Euga and Bennett's seedling. A row of 

 the common Blush China and another of the dwarfer-growing Crimson Chinas may be 

 planted in front of the Briars, and will give a grand show of bloom when the 

 Hybrid Sweet Briars are flowerless. 



The south side of the north and west side of the east walls have the more tender 

 climbing Teas and Noisettes, also Banksians, and others that will not stand a cold aspect, 

 planted at intervals of nine feet; vigorous Teas, such as Marie Yan Houtte, Anna 

 Ollivier, Dr. Grill, and others, placed between these to fill up the base, supply bloom 

 when the climbers are past, and are making new wood for next season's display. 

 Four feet from the walls will be a row of Teas and Noisettes of the same habit 

 of growth as those between the climbers; seven feet from the wall a second row 

 of less vigour is placed, and a third row of short growers in front, one and a half 

 feet from the walk, the borders being eleven and a half feet wide all round. The 

 plants in the row nearest the path may be two feet apart, but three feet in the row 

 is not too far for the others. The western wall may be planted the same, but here 

 we have planned for dark-coloured Hybrid Perpetuals in the border, the three rows 

 and distances to be the same as in the other side borders. 



In the north-east corner is a summer-house. This may either be one of artistic 

 beauty in itself, or rougher built and covered with Banksians, Fortune's Yellow, 

 Bardou Job, and roses of similar habit. The raised bed of standards in the centre 

 may have plants with four-foot stems in the middle, gradually falling off to about 

 two-foot stems at the outsides. Beneath these, mignonette. Phlox Drummondi, or even 

 carnations, may be grown to advantage. The standards, both in this bed and in the 

 rows on each side of the path crossing from west to east, should be about three 

 feet apart. Fairly strong-growing Hybrid Teas may be placed in a second row in 

 front of the standards and alternately with them, such as Yiscountess Folkestone, 

 Caroline Testout, Grace Darling, and others of similar habit. 



The ring of Fairy Eoses opposite the summer-house should be planted thickly, 

 say a foot or fifteen inches each way. The same distances may be kept for the 

 Scotch Briars, but the Copper Austrians in the centre will need to be three feet 

 apart. The pegged-down roses, both Hybrid Perpetuals and the crescent-shaped bed of 

 Noisettes near the Damask Eoses, require to be at least four feet each way. The 



