Garden planning and planting . this is delightful, and the Sweet Briar foliage giveswelcome fragrance, although often having to be clipped back. Pioses, Roses, everywhere, as a poet sings, cannot be too highlyrecommended, but there is undoubtedly more charm about an actualrosery if it is made upon a pretty plan from its beginning. The bedsand borders, no matter their shajje, should be so arranged that thescene is a brilliant one, and yet every tree can be singled out fornotice and admired closely; to ensure all this means that turf orpaths must conduct the visitor near to each group of Roses,
Garden planning and planting . this is delightful, and the Sweet Briar foliage giveswelcome fragrance, although often having to be clipped back. Pioses, Roses, everywhere, as a poet sings, cannot be too highlyrecommended, but there is undoubtedly more charm about an actualrosery if it is made upon a pretty plan from its beginning. The bedsand borders, no matter their shajje, should be so arranged that thescene is a brilliant one, and yet every tree can be singled out fornotice and admired closely; to ensure all this means that turf orpaths must conduct the visitor near to each group of Roses, and the 10 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING windings and turns of these same wallis must determine the realshape and more distant appearance of the whole Rose garden. Two kinds of formality can be carried out, according to indi-vidual taste : the stiff formal, which is quaint and old-fashioned;the curved formal, which gives a series of shapes that are matchingbut not of sharp angles. Perhaps the reason why straight lines and r^- Q. 3 FIG. 3 >>liarp corners appear in so many gardens lies in the extra skillrequired to plan out paths and beds with curves ; nowadays, how-ever, the average talent of gardeners is so much higher than of old,that to create a graceful rosery will be possible to all who are willingto take sufficient trouble. Pegging out and measuring should bemost precise, and entirely accomplished with mathematical accuracy,on the well dug ground, before other processes are begun. A com1)ination of grass and gravel gives a pleasing result BEAUTIFUL ROSE GARDENS 11 when it is possible, but many a lovely Rose garden has been made ina gravel or asphalt square, while others have prim brick or tiledwalks. A surrounding of turf alone is especially suited to the
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