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and spring. A due attention to these expedients will 

 maintain in the parterre a permanently clothed appear- 

 ance^ and will preclude that hare and iminviting aspect 

 which it would otherwise present at certain seasons. 



The Rosary is one of the departments of the flower- 

 garden, deriving its name from the beautiful flower to 

 whose culture it is specially devoted, and, as such, pos- 

 sessing much interest and beauty. Of late years, it has 

 deservedly received increased attention and favour. We 

 would not, indeed, banish the rose-border, the tree or 

 pillar roses, and the rose treillage from the terrace or 

 flower-garden; but we cannot help viewing a distinct 

 and elegant " garden of roses" as not the least interesting 

 addition that can be made to pleasure-grounds. The 

 number and variety of fine roses now in cultivation seem 

 to demand a separate locahty, and as there are many 

 autumnal flowering kinds, the season of bloom may be 

 prolonged from the middle of June to the early frosts of 

 winter. The Rosary requires a good strong loamy or 

 clayey soil over a dry subsoil, and a sunny and sheltered 

 site. It may either occupy a section of the flower- 

 garden, properlj^ so called, or may find a place on some 

 warm lawn in the dressed grounds. In both cases, it 

 must have an enclosure sufficient to exclude rabbits and 

 hares ; but the external treillage work used for that pur- 

 pose may be made to conduce to the decoration of a 

 lawn. Internally, it is generally laid out somewhat in 

 the geometrical parterre style, but there is no absolute 

 necessity for these forms. It may also be composed of 

 beds in grass, with suitable gTavel walks, or of borders 

 and walks without grass, as may be best adapted to the 

 site, or most agreeable to the taste of the proprietor. 



