THEIR GENERAL ARRANGEMENT. 



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the various groups of summer roses, with natural or artificial edgings. This 

 Where large collections are cultivated, is, however, a matter of taste, excepting 

 no doubt the grouping system should be in so far as walks of gravel are more corn- 

 followed ; and some prefer the walks fortable to walk upon in damp weather, 

 between to be of grass, as harmonising In fig. 913 another rosarium or rose- 

 better with the plants than gravel walks garden is exhibited, sunk 5 feet under the 



Fig. 913. 



level of the surrounding lawns, a a are 

 the en trances, the descent being by stone 

 steps from the lawn above to the gravel 

 walk below, which surrounds the whole. 

 The beds, in which dwarf roses only are 

 planted, are cut out on turf, surrounded 

 and connected by a gravel walk, along one 

 side of which standard roses are arranged 

 at equal distances, while, along the ellipti- 

 cal line, climbing roses are trained to cast- 

 iron pillars connected together by a light 

 chain, to which the branches of roses are 

 trained, forming a continuous line of 

 festoons all round. Two standard roses 

 occupy the grass figures at each end, 

 while two others connect these figures 

 with the circles next to them. In the four 

 corners of this rosarium are placed vases 

 upon corresponding pedestals ; but these 

 might be substituted by strong-growing 

 roses trained in the pyramidal form. 



The fernery and muscarium. — A garden 

 for the cultivation of ferns and mosses is 

 not often met with ; examples, however, 

 do exist. Many ladies now bestow great 

 attention on their cultivation, more espe- 

 cially the former; and so great has a 

 taste for them now become, that one 



commercial cultivator, Mr Stark, of the 

 Edge Hill nurseries, Edinburgh, culti- 

 vates them for sale. Several gardeners 

 around Edinburgh have also for years 

 cultivated collections of mosses with great 

 success, Mr Veitch of Arniston having 

 several hundred species cultivated in pots 

 after the manner of Alpine plants. The 

 situation for such a garden, it is perhaps 

 needless to state, should be warm, moist, 

 and shaded. The style of garden should 

 be long and narrow, and if on the side 

 or the bottom of a moist dingle or deep 

 ravine, so much the better. To give it 

 the appearance of culture, and so place 

 it within the bounds of the gardenesque, 

 the ground should be levelled and turfed, 

 the figures cut out on it, and elevated or 

 depressed according to the nature of the 

 plants to be set in or on them — some 

 ferns, for example, preferring a rather 

 dry situation, whilst others require one 

 that is much more moist. The beds 

 should be covered with stones in as irre- 

 gular a manner as possible, and between 

 and on those masses the plants should be 

 set. The mosses, many of them by no 

 means of difficult culture, should be 



