. Some English gardens;. ester was a beautiful place—to get away from, yet the Deanery garden is now full of Rosesand quantities of other good garden flowers, all grandly grown and in thebest of health. Roses are in fact rampant. A rough trellis, simply madeof split oak after the manner of the hurdles used for folding sheep in theMidlands, but about six feet high, stands at the back of the main doubleflower-border. Rambling Roses and others of free-growing habit areloosely trained to this, their great heads of bloom hanging out every waywith fine effect ; each Rose is given freedom to show its
. Some English gardens;. ester was a beautiful place—to get away from, yet the Deanery garden is now full of Rosesand quantities of other good garden flowers, all grandly grown and in thebest of health. Roses are in fact rampant. A rough trellis, simply madeof split oak after the manner of the hurdles used for folding sheep in theMidlands, but about six feet high, stands at the back of the main doubleflower-border. Rambling Roses and others of free-growing habit areloosely trained to this, their great heads of bloom hanging out every waywith fine effect ; each Rose is given freedom to show its own way ofbeauty, while the trellis gives enough support and guides the general lineof the great hedge of Roses. The Dean is not alone among the flowers, for Mrs. Hole is also oneof the best of gardeners. The picture shows a portion of a double flower-border where acurving path connects two others that are at different angles. In the 94 THE DEANERY GARDEN, ROCHESTER from the picture in the possession ofMr. G. a. Tonge. % iJ
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