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two or three yards square and fall one yard deep, for every one of the 

 climbing roses. As for the imitation, it may be that a few loads of 

 clay can be obtained ; to this may be added good manure and some 

 part of the staple soil of the spot, muck from the bottom of a pond 

 or ditch would be invaluable in such a case, and something might be 

 done by collecting the trimmings of turf that are made when roads 

 are repaired. Having made a fair beginning with a view to plant, 

 you will have to encounter the grave question of the best sorts 

 for particular purposes. We first take into consideration the best 

 sorts for — 



Wall Roses. — If the walls are high, and great sheets of bloom 

 are required, there are really but few sorts to make selection from. 

 The finest wall rose in the world is Laura Davoust, the representa- 

 tive of the " multiflora " section, but it is tender, and therefore we 

 may as well at once fix its habitat, which should be a south or west 

 wall in the southern parts of these islands. The most generally use- 

 ful of wall roses are Boursault Crimson, purple-crimson ; Boursault 

 Gracilis, purple-rose ; Boursault lnermis, brilliant rose ; Hybrid 

 Perpetual Bed Rover, fiery crimson ; Sempervirens Myriantlies, pale 

 pink ; Sempervirens Princess Louise, creamy white. None of these 

 have any quality, but they are rich in rustic worth. They grow 

 rapidly, they flower freely, and in the short season of their bloom 

 they are truly glorious. Happily any aspect and any climate almost 

 in the home empire wdl suit them. 



But can we not have quality in this department of rose-growing 

 as in others ? Yes. Let me therefore unfold a plan which I carried 

 out twenty years ago, which combined the two features of clothing 

 a wall instantly and of securing roses for the covering of the finest 

 quality known. In the first place I planted Boursaults and Semper- 

 virens at ten feet apart, and I put a selection of H.P.'s and T.'s 

 between them. They were planted in a border well prepared, and 

 trained to a wall fourteen feet high. The Boursaults and Semper- 

 virens rushed up the wall, the H.P.'s and T.'s climbed up it slowly. 

 Of course not many years would have passed ere the rampant sorts 

 had smothered out the others, only I stood by with a terrible knife, 

 and kept the rampants back, and at last cut them out altogether, 

 root and branch, and left the whole wall clothed with the most 

 glorious roses. For this plan the best of the quality sorts are the 

 following : — 



Hybrid Perpetuals eor Walls. — Alex. Bachmeteff, Anna 

 Alexieff, Anna de Diesbach, Clement Marot, Duchess of Sutherland, 

 Empereur de Maroc, Francoise Lacharme, General Jacqueminot, 

 Ipswich Gem, Madame Crapelet, Maxime, Olivier Delhomme, Paul 

 Verdier, Princess Mathilde, Red Rover, Queen a Victoria, Senateur 

 Vaisse, Wilhelm Pfitzer. 



Teas for Warm Walls. — Adam, Climbing Devoniensis, Gloire 

 de Dijon, Goubault, Leveson Gower, Madame Damaizin, Madamo 

 Willermoz, Narcisse, Souvenir d'un Ami. 



Noisettes eor Walls. — Aimee Vibert Scandens, Celine 

 Porestier, Jaune Desprez, Lamarque, Ophirie, Solfaterre, Triomphe 

 de Rennes. 



