THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



see once in a lifetime ! Bat I thought 

 of this because I was about to remark 

 how much better it is to have a wall 

 fitted with a trellis to which the 

 gardener will tie the roses instead of 

 having to nail them, but instead of 

 wood let it be stout galvanized wire run 

 through eyelet hole nails. This plan 

 preserves the wall, and is better for 

 the roses than the nails and shreds. 

 The most splendid and certain of all 

 wall roses are the Boursaults. They 

 grow fast, are thoroughly hardy, 

 bloom in immense clusters, and are 

 truly gorgeous in the display they 

 make, but they don't last long. To 

 grow Boursaults well, cut them down 

 close at the first start, and after that 

 merely shorten the seasonal growth, 

 and thin out the weak spray and any 

 soft or misplaced shoots, and they will 

 never fail to be beautiful in their 

 seasons. The Boursaults require a 

 good soil, but the aspect is compara- 

 tively of little consequence. The 

 best of these is Gracilis, which is a 

 rapid grower and of pendulous habit, 

 with handsome foliage. The flowers 

 are of an intensely brilliant rose 

 colour. Inermis, bright red, is a 

 lively rose and of most luxuriant habit. 

 Amadis, with purplishcrimson flowers, 

 is a favourite about London. At 

 Sydenham it appears to come by 

 spontaneous generation like an efflor- 

 escence of the brick walls. It is a 

 truly deserving rose, and superb on a 

 pillar. 



In the multiflora section we have 

 the finest wall rose known, but which 

 unfortunately is only fit for a south 

 Avail in the south of England, being 

 unfortunately very tender. This is 

 Laure Davoust, a rose which claims 

 admiration for its lovely foliage and 

 large flowers, produced in immense 

 clusters, the colour a curious mixture 

 of lilac and blush. Itusselliana, rosy 

 lilac, is a trifle more hardy, but needs 

 a south or west wall. Grevillia, or 

 theseve?i sisters rose, is the best known 

 of this class, and a superb rose it is, 

 growing with marvellous rapidity, and 

 if capable of enduring the climate, 

 presenting a magnificent spectacle 

 when in bloom, the flowers being in 

 great clusters, and exhibiting various 

 shades of rose and purple and deep 



crimson. I had a magnificent speci- 

 men of this rose worked on a briar 

 stock on the front of my house at 

 Stoke Newington, which the winter of 

 1860 destroyed completely. It is a 

 troublesome rose to keep or grow, owing 

 chiefly to its habit of beginning to push 

 very early in the season, and its utter 

 unfitness to endure those sharp frosts 

 which invariably occur in this country 

 just at the season when " hawthorn 

 buds appear." 



Banksian roses are of the same 

 delicate constitution as the multifloras, 

 but where they can be grown they 

 are exquisitely beautiful. Travellers 

 by the South Eastern Railway may 

 in the season have a feast of these 

 lovely roses by keeping a look out 

 after passing Croydon, as at several 

 of the stations, Carshalton especially, 

 the walls are covered with them, and 

 they grow most luxuriantly, and 

 flower in dense sheets of white and 

 yellow uniformly from head to foot. 

 Banksian roses require a rich dry soil, 

 a warm exposure, safe shelter from 

 east winds, as they bloom in May 

 when the weather is frequently as cold 

 as in January ; and in pruning any 

 long rods may be cut away, but the 

 small side-shoots must be left their 

 full length or there will be no bloom. 

 If they produce gross shoots late in 

 the season, cut them clean away in 

 September unless any are wanted to 

 fill up gaps, in which case tie the 

 shoot down to as nearly a horizontal 

 line as possible. This will check the 

 growth, and tend to its more perfect 

 ripening. The next spring it can be 

 trained into the place where required. 

 The best of this series is undoubtedly 

 Jamie JPertn, with yellow flowers of 

 good size, that is for a Banksian ; and 

 Fortuniana, with double snow white 

 flowers, also larger than the ordinary 

 type of a Banksian. But the old 

 white and less old yellow Banksian 

 are beautiful in their way, and where 

 Banksian roses can be grown without 

 risk, these should certainly have a 

 place. 



Lastly, there are some useful 

 hybrid climbing roses partaking more 

 or less of the characters of the preced- 

 ing sections, which merit the attention 

 of those who have occasion to use 



