36 ON THE ROSE. 



species of rose, or kinds that are quite opposite in colour; and as 

 it is particularly desirable to keep these clumps successively in 

 blossom during the season, those clumps that blossom the earliest 

 and the latest should be divided by others that flower in the in- 

 termediate space. 



Rosaries are formed into various devices ; but the most com- 

 mon method is by planting the tallest standard rose-trees in the 

 centre of a clump, around which the different species and varie- 

 ties are placed according to their height of growth, the edge 

 finishing by the dwarf kinds. 



Rock work is sometimes covered with creeping roses, and 

 surrounded with other varieties. 



For covering arbors or trellis-work, the bracted rose, Rosa 

 bracteata, commonly called Sir George Staunton's rose, which 

 was brought from China in the year 1795, is the most proper, 

 for it grows to a great height, and thick of branches that are co- 

 vered with shining leaves of a very fine green. The flowers are 

 single and perfectly white, of a strong and agreeable perfume ; 

 it blossoms in August and September. 



The modes of retarding the flowering of the Provence and moss 

 roses, until the autumn are various ; and as it is desirable to con- 

 tinue those beauties of the garden longer than they are naturally 

 disposed to last, we will mention the best means of obtaining 

 the enjoyment. The most simple method is by cutting off all the 

 tops of the shoots that have been produced the same spring, 

 which should be done just before they begin to show their buds ; 

 this will cause them to make fresh shoots, that will produce flow- 

 ers late in the autumn. It may also be done by transplanting 

 the bushes in the spring, just as they have formed their buds, 

 which should be cut off, but the roots must not be out of the earth 

 long enough to become dry, and they generally require watering 

 when transplanted late, to obtain roses in October and Novem- 

 ber. 



On the continent, where much more pains are bestowed on the 

 retarding of flowers than in this country, the rose-trees are dug 

 up just as they begin to shew a leaf bud, and the roots are in- 

 stantly placed in a kind of mortar, formed of brick earth, which 

 serves as a preservative plaster, whilst it debars the fibres of the 

 roots from obtaining the necessary nutriment that would cause the 

 usual growth of the plant. From this state of rest, the plants 

 are removed into the clumps or flower borders in May or June, 



