56 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



removing old wood. This should be done every two 

 years, but beyond this they need no pruning and no 

 staking whatever. When they begin to grow freely 

 among bushes or trees, if it is desired to lead the far- 

 reaching growths one way rather than another, it is 

 easily done with a long forked stick, and a very 

 pleasant and interesting job it is. It is like painting 

 a picture with an immensely long-handled brush, for 

 with a fourteen-foot pole with a forked end one can 

 guide the branches into Yew or Holly or tall Thorn 

 very nearly into such forms of upright spring or down- 

 ward swag as one pleases. 



It is pleasant, too, in such rough places, to see the 

 behaviour of one of these Roses on the ground with- 

 out support, and to watch the different way of its own 

 brother plant climbing into a neighbouring tree. 



