MY ROSARIUM 
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is placed there, as if they were the sticks In a fan. 
Imagine how delightful it will be to rest on this 
seat, and to feast our eyes on the whole rose garden. 
Besides, if I have it in this place, it will not inter- 
fere with Joseph’s hardy-flower beds. The roses 
will be quite by themselves, a condition they greatly 
desire. Over this spot the air circulates freely, 
another point about which roses are particular. An 
abundance of sunshine will there visit them, and 
yet they will be shut off from too much wind by the 
wood-border. A better spot for growing roses, 
Miss Wiseman says, could hardly be found ready 
made; for in this way she invariably speaks of the 
triangle and the bordering coppice. She had to 
plant many trees and flowering shrubs about her 
own rose garden, to act as wind-breaks, since roses 
do not like rough breezes. 
The long and narrow beds, arranged like the 
sticks of a fan, have already been prepared by Tim- 
othy, in exactly the same way as the other beds were 
made. From time to time, however, the roses will 
need more fertilising than Joseph’s hardy flowers. 
Mr. Hayden says they are the most greedy feeders 
of all plants, which seems an ugly expression in con- 
nection with roses, although quite true. I have 
noticed that, whenever Miss Wiseman and her 
gardener, Mr. Bradley, talk about the roses they 
expect to send to the flower show this year, the 
conversation begins and ends with a criticism of 
various kinds of fertilisers. 
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