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garden, yet there is little difference in their pruning. 

 The object of a pillar Rose is to secure a mass of bloom 

 from base to top, and this is best done by shortening 

 the rods each year, or, in the case of pliant shoots, by 

 coiling them spirally round the pillar, thus causing a 

 greater number of eyes to break at equal intervals. 

 There is great care needed in the selection of varieties 

 for pillars; for, while many climbing varieties can be 

 used for tall pillars, only a few are available for really 

 well-displayed dwarf pillars. A too rampant variety 

 soon outgrows a small pillar, even when twisted round 

 it many times, and after the first year it will get so 

 choked that it will have to be nearly all cut back, which 

 entails an enormous amount of work and care. 



Try and keep as many branches as possible on the 

 pole selected for your pillar Roses, for these are most 

 necessary for careful tying in, and the avoiding of a 

 tree becoming too congested. In cutting off the 

 boughs of a pillar pole, leave them graduated in lengths 

 from one foot six to six inches. If the pillar is a good 

 size, this will allow of two varieties being planted to a 

 pillar to give a longer continuance of bloom, or to give 

 a mixed colour effect. 



GARDEN ROSES. 



I do not like the name or classification, and con- 

 sider it to be most misleading. The term " Garden 

 Roses " came into being with the advent of tihe 

 H.P.s and Teas, and it was given to distinguish good 

 exhibition varieties from older kinds, such as the 

 Damask,* French, Moss Roses, and others of a free- 

 growing nature. The term Garden Rose is used to 

 denote all those kinds that are strong in growth and 

 free flowering, and that, requiring little pruning, can 

 be massed for effect, such as Betty, Corallina, La 

 Tosca, Marie Van Houtte, Viscountess Folkestone, and 

 other varieties, old and new. Pruning has had much 

 to do with the term, for many so-called ** Garden 

 Roses," if pruned hard, are exhibition kinds, but when 

 pruned lightly are generous with smaller blooms, and 



