80 DECORATED CLIMBING ROSES. 



artistic and beautiful. As soon as a bud is in- 

 serted, or if two or three buds are placed in the 

 same shoot, the end of the shoot must be cut off, 

 to within two buds of the topmost inserted bud ; 

 the buds may be untied about three weeks after 

 insertion, and all the young shoots that break out 

 below the inserted buds must be rubbed off ; this 

 is all that need be done the first season. The 

 next season the buds will bloom abundantly, and 

 it will only be necessary to destroy all the young 

 shoots that break out of the budded branch below 

 the buds ; those shoots that break out above the 

 inserted buds may be pinched in frequently, the 

 budded branch will not then become rigid and 

 starved like the stem of a standard rose. 



In decorating climbing roses, the buds should 

 be dotted over the whole surface of the plant. 

 Two or three buds in one branch will be found 

 enough, and care must be taken not to bud every 

 branch of the climbing rose ; some must be left 

 to grow in their natural, graceful, vigorous 

 manner, so that the decorated wall or walk has 

 not a stumpy appearance like an avenue of stan- 

 dard roses. 



Rose lovers wishing to ornament their gardens 

 with something quite recherche in rose-trees, 

 should either with their own hands, or by the 

 hands of their gardener, place numerous buds on 

 the upper surface of the shoots of dome-shaped 

 roses, like the figure given in p. 75. If some 



