6o ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



the best bloom and is very ornamental ; in both the 

 double and single the prickly calyx is a remarkable 

 feature, as is also the fruit of the type, which by 

 retaining this curious calyx forms a strange-looking 

 hip. 



On garden walls of other exposures in the southern 

 parts of England almost any of the free-growing Roses 

 will do well. Naturally in the colder midlands and in 

 the damper climates of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales 

 the warm aspects may be used for more kinds of 

 Roses, such as the Teas and Hybrid Teas. 



Many a beautiful effect may be gained by a Rose 

 planted on one side of a wall and trained to tumble 

 over the top on to the other side. Often a south wall 

 is devoted to rather tender shrubs ; in such a place if 

 a hardy cluster Rose, such as Dundee Rambler, is 

 planted on the north side, a good mass of its bloom 

 will come over and help to decorate the walls on the 

 more precious or southern face. 



It should be remembered that as Roses on walls 

 want training and pruning that it is well, even if there 

 is an important flower border in front, to have a little 

 blind alley running within a foot or so of the wall. 

 If they are not easy to get at they are apt to be 

 neglected. There must be every facility for training, 

 pruning, mulching and cutting. The pruning in this 

 case consists in the removal of the older wood of 

 these free-growing Roses ; it must never be neglected, 

 or the plant will soon grow thin and leggy. Who 

 does not know the starved wall Rose in a worn-out 

 border against a bare wall, with ten or twelve feet of 



