I50 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



Prune closely in the following March, removing three- 

 fourths of your wood, so as to insure a grand growth in the 

 summer, which, moderately shortened in the succeeding 

 spring, should furnish your pillar, from soil to summit, with 

 flowering lateral shoots. By the time your tree has at- 

 tained the dimensions required, your observation will have 

 taught you how, for the future, to prune it so that you may 

 be sure of an annual bloom, cutting away all weakly wood, 

 and regulating the general growth with an eye both to form 

 and florescence. As with a vine, only put a strong cane 

 into a rich border, use the knife courageously, and be sure 

 of grapes. 



As single specimens of Pillar Roses, the following may be 

 tried with confidence : — 



Anna Alexicff* free in growth, in foliage, and flowers — the latter of a fresh 

 pure rose-colour, which makes the tree very distinct and charming. 



Auguste Mie, an old favourite, having well-shaped globular flowers, of a deli- 

 cate pearly-pink complexion, and blooming freely both in summer and 

 autumn. 



Baronne Frevost, another of the few old favourites still claiming a place in the 

 Rosary. The flowers are very large, fragrant, and of a true rose-colour. 

 Colonel Rougemont, closely resembling the Baroness, and in some points 

 superior, is of a more weakly condition, and therefore less adapted for a 

 Pillar Rose. 



* All the Roses in this list, except Gloire de Bourdeaux, Gloire de Dijon, 

 and Jaune Desprez, are of the Hybrid Perpetual family. 



