English Gardens 
GRASS TERRACES AND GARDEN-HOUSE 
heads: roses, perennials, annuals. This is of course a very primi¬ 
tive division, but those three classes are represented in every 
English garden ; and the three, as befits their different charac¬ 
teristics, are generally separated, so that one has the rose-gar¬ 
den, the perennial beds or borders, and the parterre of annuals. 
Roses are the special pride of the English gardener, and with 
climbers, standards, and low-budded roses, and all the varieties 
of briars, almost anything can be done with the rose-garden. 
Like other parts of the place it is enclosed with walls or a hedge. 
The perennials, being like the roses permanent occupiers of 
the ground, are placed in deep rich beds ; and for convenience 
both of tending and picking, are frequently in long, narrow 
borders against the walls. This gives the tall growing plants 
the support and protection of the wall, and leaves room for the 
various smaller varieties in the edge. Such a long border, with 
perhaps a hedged walk or bowling-green running the length 
of it, is a familiar and most charming feature. The annuals 
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