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THE ROSE GARDEN. 



cannot be grown to advantage except as climbers ; such are, Noisettes, Lemarque, 

 Solfaterre, Jaune Desprez, and others. As to the shape they are brought to 

 assume, the taste of the cultivator will perhaps be the best guide. Circular 

 trellises may be formed, varying in height and diameter, that they may be fitted 

 to any particular variety, according to its rate of growth. None should exceed 

 three feet in height. Round these the shoots may be trained, according to the accom- 

 panying illustration (No. 30), so as eventually to hide the trellis, and to produce 



No. 30. 



a dense, but not shapeless, mass of foliage and flowers. It is necessary, in the first 

 instance, to practise close pruning, to induce them to grow vigorously : the shoots 

 should then be trained in their proper course during the season of growth. Now, 

 the great point to be kept in view here is, so to prune and train that the plant may 

 produce flowers from its summit to the ground ; for it is evident that if only a few 

 flowers are to be produced at the top, then the dwarfer it is grown the better. 

 Here, as in all gardening operations, Nature requires time to perfect her work. 

 The plants will not be complete the first year : they may not the second. Much, 

 of course, will depend on the treatment they undergo, their strength when put to 

 the trellis, and the size of the latter. But little pruning is necessary : each year 

 the weak and unripened wood only should be removed, tying the rest to the trellis, 



