. Rose gardening; how to manage roses and enjoy them . Fan-shaped Support for Roses. Original-shaped supports add to the interest of a gardenscene. There may be a ten, or twelve, feet high cross of rusticwood in the midst of a gravel square, paved court or lawn,grown up by some climbing rose, whose boughs outline thearms and hang from their ends. A fan-shaped trellis on a sufficiently giant scale, givento a white rose, will have a remarkable, spectre-like effectin the garden by night. A row of huge targets, made of open-work wire, coveredby roses that do not hide the shades, will amaze people
. Rose gardening; how to manage roses and enjoy them . Fan-shaped Support for Roses. Original-shaped supports add to the interest of a gardenscene. There may be a ten, or twelve, feet high cross of rusticwood in the midst of a gravel square, paved court or lawn,grown up by some climbing rose, whose boughs outline thearms and hang from their ends. A fan-shaped trellis on a sufficiently giant scale, givento a white rose, will have a remarkable, spectre-like effectin the garden by night. A row of huge targets, made of open-work wire, coveredby roses that do not hide the shades, will amaze people andshow the adaptability of the grandest of all flowers, as well. LADY HILLINGDON (y,;ueu) JOSEPH LOWE (//«ii RICHMOND {Crimson) ROSES FOR GARDEN DECORATION 65 as affording perhaps a much-needed screen to ensure theprivacy of a lawn. Continuous arches ranged round a lawn may be so tallas to look like the boundary to the precincts of some classictemple, or amphitheatre of old, or so low as to be but a seriesof pretty hoops. In one part of the rose garden all the plantsand shrubs may be ruddy, or crimson, as to leaves and blossoms,and all the roses cream, white, or pale gold. In anotherpart, silver, or white-variegated, and white-blooming trees,shrubs and plants can be accompanied by hundreds ofcarmine roses. It would indeed be a noble garden that possessed a differentcoloured rosery for every one of the rosy months. A few inches of this chapter must be spared for advocatingthe planting of an orchard of roses. Probably no other formof rose garden is quite as lovely. Let it be hedged by Japanese,Penzance, and other Briar roses, then have a ditch insid
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