ROSES AS FOUNTAINS 55 



classed as Ayrshires. They are all worthy of use in 

 these ways, and of being encouraged to clamber into 

 trees and hedges. One cannot help observing how 

 the support of a tree encourages almost abnormal 

 growth. The wild Dog-rose will go up twenty feet, 

 and Sweet-brier nearly as high ; while almost any Rose 

 that has at all a climbing habit will exert itself to the 

 utmost to get high up into the tree. 



Climbing Aimee Vibert is generally used as a pillar 

 Rose, but the picture shows how it will rush up into 

 a tree and increase, not only in height but in freedom 

 of flowering. 



The free-growing R. multiflora of the Himalayas 

 also forms immense fountains, spreading in diameter 

 by naturally rooted layers, from which new plants 

 take root at the outer circumference of the great bush, 

 throwing up strong growths, and so continually in- 

 creasing its area. The large flowered one {R. multi- 

 flora grandiflord), as well as the double kind, are 

 valuable varieties, with all the freedom of the type, 

 while each has its own distinct development of some- 

 what the same class of beauty. 



For spaces between garden and wild, for sloping 

 banks, for broken ground, as of an old gravel pit or 

 other excavation, for all sorts of odds and ends 

 of unclassified places about the home grounds, the 

 rambling and free-growing Roses seem to be offered 

 us by a specially benevolent horticultural providence. 

 A well-prepared hole is all they need at first. About 

 four years after planting, if the best they can do for 

 us is desired, they should be looked to in the way of 



