128 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



garden, you may enjoy It all the year round ; and if ever, 

 for some heinous crime, I were miserably sentenced, for the 

 rest of my life, to possess but a single Rose-tree, I should 

 desire to be supplied, on leaving the dock, with a strong 

 plant of Gloire de Dijon. 



As to treatment, although this Rose, like some thorough- 

 bred horse, will do its work with little grooming and scanty 

 fare, it well repays that generous diet which I have pre- 

 viously prescribed. In pruning, take away all weakly wood, 

 and you may then deal with the strong as you please. If 

 you want to increase the height of your tree, '' cut boldly," 

 as said the Augur, and low. If you desire short flowering 

 laterals, you may have them, a dozen on a shoot, or from 

 as many " eyes " as you like to leave on it. 



I am inclined to award to Climbing Devonlensis the 

 second prize in its class. To this offspring of, or, as we 

 technically term it, " sport " from, the lovely Tea-scented 

 Rose, Devoniensis, we may truly say, 



O matre pulchra 

 Filia pulchrior ! 



for it has all the beauty of the mother — form, complexion, 

 sweetness — without that tendency to rapid decline which 

 the parent exhibits in our chilly climate. A tree kindly 



