4SI THE GARDENER. [Nov. 



or two of the ground by means of stout wooden pegs, in whichever 

 direction may seem to be most convenient. From henceforth the 

 plants may be looked upon as permanently established ; and the 

 cultivator has but to gather his flowers in the summer and autumn, 

 cut out all the old wood, and cleanse and dress the bed in the win- 

 ter, and shorten back and peg down the young growth early in the 

 following spring. This, then, will be for many years to come the 

 annually - recurring routine of labour necessary to be performed. 

 The advantages presented by this mode of cultivation are many 

 and obvious. It permits the Rose to exist under the most natural 

 conditions, and to develop suckers or root -growth to an unlimited 

 extent. Such strong shoots as are annually sent up also aid the 

 root -extension wonderfully, the limitation to which can only be 

 found in the depth or space prepared beforehand. Then the whole 

 of the flowers can be seen with perfect ease, as the lateral growth 

 all comes upward, and forms in time a perfect mass of foliage and 

 colour ; the whole of the soil, also, is effectually shaded, and is kept 

 cool and moist in hot weather. The period of blooming is also 

 greatly prolonged, as the buds at the point of the shoots start first, 

 and are succeeded by those nearer the base \ these, again, being 

 followed by the summer growth from the roots, which, as I have 

 before mentioned, carry bloom all through the autumn. 



Mr Perry has long been a bold practiser of the pegging system, 

 and earnestly recommends it. He has beds of more than twelve 

 years' planting, and yet they are as strong and vigorous as ever — 

 indeed it would be difficult to prescribe the period that Roses might 

 last under this mode of growth. In planting beds of Roses that 

 are to be treated as here described, care should be exercised to keep 

 the more robust growers in the centre, and the weaker ones on the 

 outside. Hybrid Perpetuals and Bourbons are best for this kind 

 of work. Tea -Roses it does not suit; but these latter should in 

 variably be grown upon walls or as climbers. The Brier and Manetti 

 stocks may be very useful for the purpose of quickly obtaining plants 

 of new or scarce varieties, but, for all permanent work, nothing 

 can beat the culture of Roses upon their own roots. 



t ROSAEIAN. 



NOTES OF THE MONTH. 



At last, after much patient waiting, there has come a break in the 

 weather, and the long-continued drought that almost without inter- 

 mission had lasted from March till the middle of October, has come 



