CHAPTER X 



ROSE SCREENS, HEDGES, AND TRELLISES 



Many are the opportunities in the planning of gardens 

 for having a screen or hedge all of Roses. Sometimes 

 it may occur as part of the Rose garden design, but 

 more often in some detached portion of the grounds 

 some kind of light screen is actually wanted. There 

 are often rubbishy or at least unbeautiful spaces on 

 some of the frontiers of the kitchen garden, where 

 a Rose screen or hedge will not only hide the un- 

 sightliness, but will provide a thing beautiful in itself 

 and that yields a large quantity of bloom for cutting. 

 Many are the kinds of structure that may be used to 

 support and train the Roses, But with posts of oak 

 or larch, and straight long lengths of sawn larch 

 tips for the top rail, and some wire netting of the 

 coarsest mesh, an effective framework may be easily 

 and cheaply made that in three years will show a 

 perfect covering of blooming Roses. Between this 

 and the elaborately made wooden framings there are 

 many grades and forms of flower wall or trellis that 

 can be arranged according to special use or need. 

 One pretty way is to have a low trellis with posts 

 for pillar Roses at intervals. This can be carried a 

 little further by having chains from post to post. If 

 this should occur on each side of a path, the posts 



