THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. 



The shrubs for these borders would have to be selected with great care, as the walls in 

 summer would scarcely cast any shade, and many shrubs do not succeed well at all without 

 the half-shade of wood or copse. After making the border, which must be deeply trenched, 

 each plant would require setting in a soil suitable to its best growth and well-being. 

 The fashion of the day is to be very impatient as regards the making of a garden ; so 

 much can be bought, that those who can afford to buy are under the impression that 

 money will procure everything. This is no more the case in a garden than it is in 

 lifetime ; patience and labour are essentials to success, even where knowledge be ever so 

 great. A bright flowery covering to the earth is quite easy to attain even in the first 

 year, but to produce a really beautiful garden of specimen shrubs is hardly to be arrived at 

 under six or seven years. 



As in the bordering of a straight road with a wall on each side any picturesqueness 



AN ARCH OF ROSES. 



of effect is impossible, the beauty must depend on the graceful grouping of the rarer plants. 

 This, were I planting it, would make me eliminate very quickly all coarse-growing and weedy 

 plants. And in these borders I should have no Roses of any kind, and on the walls only a 

 few of rampant strong growth, and 1 would drape the walls not only with creepers, but with 

 Southern fruit, such as figs and vines, not forgetting the claret-coloured vine and the 

 quick-growing American vine (Vitis Coignetire). 



On the south-east wall must also be a Clematis montana, which, when properly 

 pruned, flowers profusely every May, -and some of the later-flowering Clematis; a Wistaria, 

 which, after it has flowered, should be pruned like a vine, so as to show patches of bare 

 wall and the growth of its branches against it. The common Laburnum, the New Zealand 

 Laburnum (Edwardsin grandiflora), the Judas tree (Cercis Siliquastrum), and the pink false 



