MY HERBACEOUS GARDEN 197 
border to it, and beyond a hedge of roses grown 
on pillars of oak and tied out to wires between 
the posts — rambling roses of all kinds, from 
the crimson Excelsa, the cherry-coloured Lady 
Gay, and the scarlet Hiawatha to various white 
hybrids. Inside this hedge, which screens the 
entire centre from observation, and round the 
four sides are grass paths with borders of 
different flowers. All the paths converge in 
a round plot in the centre, and the crossway 
grass walk is sheltered with vines and honey- 
suckle on posts and chains, Vitis coignetice 
from Japan, Vitis heterophylla with turquoise 
blue berries and others, and the borders under- 
neath thickly planted with white lilies, carpeted 
yearly with different annuals. 
This vine walk and the round plat in the 
centre is backed by a hedge of Thuja, or 
Arbor vita , kept clipped, and has two juniper 
trees of pyramidal shape standing as sentinels 
at the entrance. The border to the grass plat 
in front of the Thuja hedge is broken up into 
eight small beds, where the paths converge. 
These are filled with lavender and the new 
polyantha Orleans, an ever-blooming, low- 
growing, bright pink rose ; while behind the 
hedges are old standard roses of the white 
Madame A. Carriere (the long growth pegged 
