THE 



GARDENER 



APRIL 1869. 



I 



THE BOSE. 



{Continued from page 106.) 

 CHAPTER IX. SELECTION. 



ESCENDING now from roseate heights, and ere we reach 

 the perfumed plains below, we must halt to gaze upon 

 our 



PILLAR EOSES, 



some rising singly Ifere and there, like the proud standards of victori- 

 ous troops ; some meeting in graceful conjunction, saluting each other 

 like our forefathers and foremothers in the stately minuet — bowing 

 themselves, like tall and supple cavaliers, into arches of courtesy, 

 with keystones of cocked hats. In both phases these Pillar Roses 

 are beautiful additions to the rosarium, enabling us to enliven, with a 

 pleasing diversity, that level which is described as dead. But with 

 reference to the first, I must offer to amateurs a respectful caution — 

 that to grow single specimens in isolated positions, where they will 

 invite, and ought to satisfy, special criticism — knowledge of habit, and 

 experience in pruning, will be indispensable. Melancholy results 

 must inevitably ensue from ignorance or inattention ; and I have 

 shuddered to see examples of both in long lanky trees, without any 

 lateral shoots, flowerless and leafless for three-fourths of their height, 

 reminding one of those shorn disgusting poodles, profanely termed by 

 their proprietors " lions," as they stand upon their execrable hind- 

 legs to beg. But not upon them — not upon the helpless object — but 

 on the barbarous owner, we must expend our noble rage j upon those 



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