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Pillar or Pole Roses.—This form of growing 
Roses is considered by many to be the most natural 
and beautiful. Certainly, no plant can be more 
handsome than a well-grown and properly trained 
pillar Rose. It is not all Roses that can be made to 
assume this form, and it would be useless to make 
the attempt with such sorts as are not suitable. To 
form handsome pillar Roses six to eight feet in 
height, such varieties must be chosen as are 
vigorous or robust in habit, yet not too rambling. 
Many of the Hybrid Chinas and Hybrid Bourbons 
are suitable ; so are many of the stronger growers 
of the Hybrid Perpetuals, Bourbons, Noisettes, &c. 
The climbing Roses are sometimes used for this 
purpose, for which they are well adapted, provided 
the poles are of sufficient height, which should not 
be less than from ten to twelve feet, and made 
thoroughly secure. 
A good support for pillar Roses may be obtained 
in larch poles, which are very durable ; and if: they 
can be procured with portions of the roots attached, 
these will assist in keeping them firm in the ground. 
The yew is perhaps the best of all, and certainly no 
other is so durable. Having occasion to destroy 
some old yew tree hedges, which had been growing 
more than sixty years, | had them taken up with 
some portions of their roots left on, and the side 
branches projecting six or nine inches ; these have a 
very rustic appearance, and the snags which are left 
on are useful for the purpose of training the shoots 
tied to them. 
Climbing Roses are the most vigorous of all 
