114 THE HYBRID TERPETUAL ROSE. 



cover a pole from six to seven feet high well ; but 

 unless in very rich soils they cannot be depended 

 upon to form a healthy pillar of greater height. 

 Baronne Prevost, Jules Margottin, Duchesse de 

 Cambaceres, Charles Lefebvre, General Jacque- 

 minot, John Hopper, Jules Margottin, Madame 

 Eivers, Prince Camille de Rohan, Senateur Vaisse, 

 Victor Verdier, Empereur de Maroc, Triomphe 

 de I'Expositiou, are all nice varieties for this 

 purpose. 



Pyramidal Hybrid Perpetuals. 



Standard roses, inartistic and unpicturesque as 

 they are, have ' held their own ' for some years. 

 It is time that some new rose idea was originated, 

 and I hope, ere long, to have standard roses 

 spoken of as things of the past — like stage-coaches 

 and road-waggons. The culture of pyramidal roses 

 will require more care and time than the culture 

 of standards, which we all know is very simple ; 

 but the rose gardener will be amply compensated 

 by such glorious effects as have never yet been 

 seen in our rosaries. 



Like all really good gardening ideas, the cul- 

 ture of rose pyramids, although requiring more 

 time and care than the culture of standard and 

 dwarf roses, is still very simple, and may be car- 

 ried out by two methods : — 



The first, and most simple mode, is to bud the 



