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A DESIGN FOR A ROSE GARDEN, AND A PLEA FOR ROSES. 
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may be thrown over the plants for protection, for they suffer more from the sun acting on their frozen 
tissue, than from excessive colcl. Transplant to the beds either in November or January, if the wea¬ 
ther is suitable ; but after the middle of February, they will not succeed if transplanted, as the dry 
winds of March will be sure to parch them up before they are established. These annuals we some¬ 
times plant in entire beds, but more frequently around the margins, leaving the centre filled 
with bulbs, which, being taken up in May, give room for the summer occupants to be planted 
without disturbing the annuals, which will continue to bloom until the summer plants require the 
room.—H. P. Y. 
A DESIGN FOP A ROSE GARDEN, AND A PLEA FOR ROSES. 
1/71 HE accompanying plan and sketches for a Rosery, designed by Mr. Herman Seitz (of Munich), now 
A residing at Chatswortli, are submitted to the readers of the Gardeners' Magazine of Botany, as 
suitable arrangements for displaying a goodly variety of the numerous beautiful Climbing, Pillar, 
Dwarf, and Standard Roses, which, through the assiduity and discrimination of our great Rose cultu- 
rists, are now worthy of introduction to—aye, and are deserving a 
more distinguished position in—the flower garden scenes of Eng¬ 
land. 
Previous to adverting to details, however, it may not be con¬ 
sidered out of place to direct an observation or two in reference to 
the present position of “ La Reine des fleurs” in the majority of 
our gardens. 
It will not be controverted—albeit, the numberless “ beauties 
of the Rose,” Messrs. Rivers, Lane, Paul, Francis, Wood, &c., have 
brought to our garden gates, as it were—that the Queen of flowers, is too generally permitted, or 
rather compelled, to occupy a situation inferior to her regal rank, and the very reverse of dignified; 
nor will it be gainsayed that there exists scarcely a garden of any pretensions, where the introduction 
of Roses, en masse, might not advantageously be effected. 
It is quite true, however, that occasional very laudable exceptions to the state of things just alluded 
to, might be enumerated. For example, there is, or was, at Nuneham, Oxfordshire, a Rosarium re¬ 
flecting no small credit on its artist; and the 
same might be said of an unique little Rose- 
garden which I remember to have seen, some 
few years ago, at Flitwich, Bedfordshire; and, 
doubtless, of other gardens also, in various parts 
of the country, which it may not have been my 
good fortune to see. 
Still, after having, from time to time, visited 
some of the principal gardens in Britain, and 
learnt somewhat of places that have not come under my own immediate observation, I would I could, but 
regret I cannot, adduce a single instance where, in my humble estimation, the Rose receives due homage! 
On the contrary, I cannot refrain from asserting my conviction and surprise, that, with a very limited 
number of exceptions, the glorious tribes of the Rose experience manifest indignities throughout the 
entire range of our flower-gardens; and, moreover, that in the grandest places, as well as in more 
circumscribed garden scenes, there is apparent a marvellous absence of concentrated Rose gardens. 
The design for. a Rosery now presented, neither assumes a remedy for all this, nor presumes perfec¬ 
tion in displaying Roses to advantage upon our lawns and shrubberies—far from it; but it is premised 
the plan may not be deemed otherwise than a step in the right direction, and, if so, worthy of inser¬ 
tion in this periodical. 
It should be observed, however, that the adoption of such a plan would not be practicable unless 
upon a somewhat extensive scale—a parallelogram of 150 feet by 100 feet, for example, being the least 
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a. —Pond of water margined with dwarf, and embowered with 
climbing Roses. 
b. —Gravel walks. 
c. —Grass. 
d. —Colonnade festooned and embowered with climbing Roses. 
—Flights of steps supported with vases. 
/•—Raised seats embowered with Roses and supported with vases. 
ff -—Parterre on gravel arranged with masses of Tea-scented and 
Chinese Roses. 
b .—Irregular combinations of various “ Summer and Autumnal” 
Roses, 
CU.—Yases filled with dwarf Roses. 
o„—Standard Roses of different heights. 
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