oA \ose (garden 
for the Southwest 
I N planning a Rose garden, consideration was given to the limited space 
at the disposal of the average Rose-lover. The plan worked out in the 
accompanying sketch calls for only an average back yard, accommodating 
itself to a plot fifty feet wide and sixty feet long. But in it are included, 
with ample room for each, some four hundred and fifteen Rose plants, 
representing most of the types in commerce today in seventy-eight excel¬ 
lent varieties. 
Directly opposite the gateway at the farther end of the garden is a 
long arbor or summer-house covered with climbing Roses and edged with 
Polyanthas. The remaining space in this garden is divided into four equal 
sections by two main intersecting walks. The main path from the gateway 
to the arbor is planted at ten-foot intervals with climbing Roses trained 
over arches and is bordered with Polyanthas. At either end of the intersect¬ 
ing main path is a seat and at intervals throughout the plan are placed 
accents in the form of tall cypress trees and small evergreens. Both main 
walks are of grass and meet in a large circular plot, in the center of which 
is a sundial. 
The four main sections of the garden contain each three beds of bush 
Roses, one long outside bed for the taller growing varieties and two smaller 
ones for the lower growing sorts. The long beds are eighteen feet long and 
four feet wide and contain twenty-four bushes in two rows of twelve 
bushes each, planted eighteen inches apart one way and two feet the other. 
The two small beds in each section are eight feet long and three and one- 
half feet wide and contain twelve bushes in two rows of six each, planted 
sixteen inches apart. 
The general color arrangement for the garden places the strong shades, 
such as reds, in the foreground and the lighter pinks, yellows and whites 
in the background. This lends an impression of greater distance to the 
perspective. The color arrangement for the beds groups Roses of the same 
or blending shades of one color in a bed; the four beds bordering on the 
central circular plot having shades of flame and orange Roses in those 
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