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resort, has also a utilitarian side, where the choicest fruit and 

 vegetables are produced, both indoors and in the open. On 

 the high brick walls, plums, peaches, cherries, &c., ripen. 

 And the supply is augmented by crops grown in extensive 

 glass structures. Apples crop heavily, and the smaller fruits 

 also invariably produce good supplies. Culinary crops, though 

 present, do not detract from the beauty of the garden, but 

 are so planted that they can be effectively screened by many 

 sorts of flowering plants. For this purpose. Standard and 

 Pillar Roses of the Wichuriana type (favourite varieties 

 being Dorothy Perkins, Lady Gay and Hiawatha) are used ; 

 also Sweet Peas planted in clumps and rows. Sweet-smelling 

 flowers fringe many of the paths. Fragrant Lavender and 

 Nepeta, Mignonette and other plants associated with old 

 English gardens, do not strike one as being out of place 

 here. In spring their places are occupied by many Hya- 

 cinths, Tulips, Daffodils and Iris ; Wall-flowers of many 

 shades, Forget-me-nots, Sweet-rockets, Sweet-williams and 

 stately Campanulas, that prefer to bloom early in the year, 

 and which are often in too great a hurry to make way for 

 their more numerous summer sisters. 



Effective colour arrangement is at the moment the chief 

 feature of modern gardening, and the results attained here 

 are most successful and original. The number of plants that 

 are raised annually from seeds, or any other methods of pro- 

 pagation, total 80,000, and include all subjects that are of a 

 lasting and effective nature. Many combinations of widely 

 differing plants are used in the smaller beds and borders of 

 the flower garden, while brilliant effects are obtained by 

 massing a single species of plant in one border in other 

 places. Roses occupy much space, and while room is found 

 for many of the latest introductions into Roseland, old-time 

 Roses such as the Pink Monthly and many varieties of the 

 Noisette section are largely grown. Among the Roses, 

 Hybrid Teas are most freely planted, and the most beautiful 

 and fragrant sorts are selected, as La France, Caroline Testout, 

 Richmond, Madame Abel Chatenay, Liberty, The Lion 



