• SELECTIONS. 183 



ROSES FOR WEEPING STANDARDS. 



Most of the Wichuraiana Ramblers make fine 

 weeping standards. Budded on to a seven, eight or 

 nine foot briar, they trail right down to the ground a 

 mass of bloom, and the effect is a very telling one in 

 any garden. They need space to be seen to advantage, 

 but when introduced into the Rose garden they lend 

 a wonderful beauty to the general effect and seem to 

 set off to advantage standards and half-standards 

 growing in the vicinity. In every case a trainer should 

 be used such as is supplied by John Pinches, of 3, 

 Crown Buildings, Crown Street, Camberwell, S.E., 

 for without a trainer they present a poor effect, and 

 also there is a danger in a rough wind of the head 

 being blown away from the stock. 



As there is always a very limited supply in this 

 country, it is wisest to give an order very early, or 

 even to get budded what you require for the following 

 year. 



In giving the following varieties, I would point 

 out that although each variety will do well as a weep- 

 ing standard, yet so will others of a like character; 

 and it therefore is for the grower to decide not only 

 what he wants, but what he will choose if his selection 

 is not in stock. 



Debutante. Lady Gay. 



Evangeline. Minnehaha. 



Excelsa. Purity. 



Helcne. R6n^ Andre. 



Hiawatha. Sanders White. 



Lady Godiva. Wihite Dorothy. 



ROSES FOR STANDARDS. 



The Rose garden would not be perfect without its 

 standard or half-standard Rose trees; it would lose 

 half its beauty did we take away those slender stems. 

 that support such a wealth of bloom above the dwarf 

 trees. To be able to look into the growing Rose with- 

 out stooping down, to smell it and touch it, is indeed 

 a pleasure. Many Roses, too, hang their heads, and 



