180 SELECTIONS. 



For Walls Facing West, 



Mister Stella Gray. Cloth of Gold. 

 Belle Lyonnaise. Duchesse d'Auerstadt. 

 Celine Forestier. L' Ideal. 

 Climbing Irish Fireflame. Madame Isaac Pereire. 

 Climbing Richmond. Madame Jules Graver- 

 Climbing Souv de la eaux. 

 Malmaison. Op'hirie. 



ROSES FOR HEDGES. 



I cannot understand why the Rose hedge is not 

 more popular than it is in large and small gardens. 

 Growers seem to be afraid to plant the Rose for the 

 purpose of forming a hedge, either tall or short, and 

 yet good hedges can be formed from 4 to 7 feet ihigh 

 with but little trouble. To my way of thinking, a 

 Rose garden should be surrounded by its Rose hedge 

 of a height in accordance with its size, and since there 

 are plenty of suitable varieties of Roses for this pur- 

 pose, why not introduce this feature into the garden? 

 First, let us consider the construction of a tall boun- 

 dary Rose hedge of from 6 to 7 feet high. All you have 

 to do is to secure as many poles or iron uprights as 

 you require, and having placed them firmly in the 

 ground at equal intervals, to attach four rows of strong 

 galvanised wire, making the same taut, dig out your 

 beds, and plant one row of trees at 3 ft. 6 In. to 4 ft. 

 apart, and as they grow tie in the shoots to the wire. 

 In two or three years they will have made a perfect 

 hedge, which can be cut with shears every spring. No 

 actual pruning will be necessary except the thinning 

 out of dead and useless wood. Any of the Lord Pen- 

 zance Sweet Briars will make a strong hedge; so also 

 will the Wichuraianas and other rampant growers. 



For a hedge 4 to 5 feet high, posts and wire need 

 not be used ; this hedge would be planted with varieties 

 of the Rugosas, Chinas, Scots and Sweet Briars, cut 

 back lightly until the hedge was formed. 



The trees would have to be planted in a double 

 row, leaving 2^ feet between each tree. The classes 



