106 THE GARDENER. [March 



hardy, covered from the middle of ISIay with large loose flowers of 

 every shade — between a rich reddish butF and a full coppery pink — 

 and rambling over a low wall, covering it on both sides about 20 

 feet wide and 5 feet high." Mr Fortune himself described it as 

 most striking in its own country, with flowers "yellowish salmon, and 

 bronze-like;" but it did not succeed in my garden, and as I find it 

 in only one of the catalogues, I fear it has all but succumbed to our 

 ungenial climate. 



Although the Boursault Rose is called, from its habitat, Rosa Alpina, 

 it certainly has not the agility in climbing which entitles the Roses 

 previously discussed to membership in the Alpine Club. The old 

 crimson Amadis is very beautiful w^hen the evening sun is low, and 

 the soft light rests upon its glowing flowers, but Ichabod is soon writ- 

 ten on its leaves ; and then the Boursault, always excepting Gracilis, 

 is not a graceful tree. They may be trained both to climb and droop, 

 but they have long ceased to perform in my rosarium either of these 

 evolutions. There are better Roses. 



Nor am I acquainted, so numerous are the candidates having stronger 

 claims, with any garden which has space to spare for the Multifiora 

 or for the Hybrid Climbing Roses. They are disappearing from the 

 lists (as fair ladies do when no combatant wears their glove in his 

 helmet), and I sigh to count the happy, happy years which are gone 

 since I laid the Garland, as an Immortelle, upon the tomb of Madame 

 D'Arblay. S. Reynolds Hole. 



THE CULTIVATION" OF HARDY FRUITS. 



THE PEAK. 



{Continued from 'page 62.) 



Horizontal training is perhaps the simplest mode of all, and is the 

 one which we have seen to be in most general use for the Pear about 

 all old places. A considerable number of old Apples may still be seen 

 trained after this fashion, but as a rule it is seldom used for them now. 

 It is, however, still in very general use for the Pear, and, when well 

 done, looks very neat. The first pruning of the maiden tree is exactly 

 the same as for the fan — viz., cut over about one foot from the ground, 

 leaving three nice plump buds, one on either side for the branches, and 

 one right in front for the leader. The second year, if the side-shoots 

 are good and well ripened, I would not recommend them to be cut at 

 winter pruning-time, but simply be laid in at an angle of about 45° to 

 encourage the future growth of the branches ; for, if they are cut, what- 



