50 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



preferably of the same kind, would be planted against 

 each panel of the trellis. Another way would be to 

 plant another Rose of rambling habit against the 

 middle of the trellis and train it down over its next 

 neighbour. 



Posts when put into the ground should always 

 have the ends prepared either by gas-tarring or by 

 charring in the fire. This preparation should come 

 up the post quite a foot out of the ground, as damp 

 and rot attack it first at or near the ground line. If 

 a better kind of wooden framework is made, the posts 

 are set on stone or brickwork nine inches to a foot 

 out of the ground, as described in the chapter on the 

 pergola at p. 40. 



Roses of the free-growing kinds adapt themselves 

 readily to the form of hedges. One has only to 

 choose a Rose of more or less vigour, according to 

 the height required. The hedge or screen way of 

 growing them has the merit of ease of access for 

 training and pruning as well as that of giving close 

 enjoyment of the living walls of flowers. The 

 tendency of nearly all strong growing Roses is to 

 rush up and leave bare places below. A Rose hedge 

 should, if possible, have a free space on both sides, 

 when this defect can be remedied in two ways ; one 

 by training the shoots in an arched form with the 

 tips bent well down, and the other to tip some of the 

 outer strong young shoots that spring from the base. 

 If in July these are shortened about a third, instead 



