102 Work to be done in the Garden. 
Our most immediate work perhaps is clearing 
away dead rubbish. Then we have beds to di g* 
and perhaps bulbs to plant — very often still there 
are shrubs or trees to move ; beds of Roses may be 
covered with manure, or leaves with a little soil 
scattered over to prevent their blowing loosely all 
about the garden in the winter storms ; and lastly* 
now is the time to work if we are ambitious of 
having a hedge of Roses to bound our domain next 
spring. 
The rustic fences all covered with Sweet Peas 
are indeed very pretty and their flowers smell very 
sweet in the summer time, but different things suit 
perhaps different places, and I have known some 
people who prefer a Rose hedge to a flower fence. 
One of my own gardens had a Rose hedge round 
it. The garden itself was on turf, and we had the 
turf taken up all round the edge, and first a heap 
of large pieces of stone and brick was laid along 
exactly where we wished that the hedge should be, 
and then this heap being banked up with earth, and 
beaten down with spades into a proper slope some 
two or three feet high, a double row of Rose-trees 
was planted all along, not evenly, but zig-zag, so 
as to come one in one line between every two in 
the other, and the rows being put in, the turf was 
