Roses for English gardens . the walls clothed with darkgreenery. The beneficent eflFect of neighbouring dark trees 72 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS may be seen in the picture of the Rose arches. Anytrees of dark or dusky foUage serve well as Rosebackgrounds, whether of the greyish tone of thecommon Juniper or the richer greens of Thuya orCypress, Yew or Holly. In the few instances that can be given in a bookit is impossible to consider a hundredth part of themany varying circumstances of different place has its own character, and the choiceof site for the Rose garden will necessarily

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Roses for English gardens . the walls clothed with darkgreenery. The beneficent eflFect of neighbouring dark trees 72 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS may be seen in the picture of the Rose arches. Anytrees of dark or dusky foUage serve well as Rosebackgrounds, whether of the greyish tone of thecommon Juniper or the richer greens of Thuya orCypress, Yew or Holly. In the few instances that can be given in a bookit is impossible to consider a hundredth part of themany varying circumstances of different place has its own character, and the choiceof site for the Rose garden will necessarily begoverned by the natural conditions of the place. One illustration shows a Rose border made justunder a terrace wall. The ground to the right slopestoo sharply to allow of a broader grass walk withouthaving another retaining wall below; had it not beenfor this, a space of turf as wide again, between theborder and the Rose hedge, would have been also is plainly seen the value of the dark ever-green trees A ROSE GARDEN AMONG CYPRESSES.

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