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four feet and upwards in height. In the first pruning they are cut close in, 

 and to have one bud only is an advantage ; the shoots are thinned out as with 

 standards, shortening back the others to give vigorous growth. The habit 

 of the rose being pendulous and the shoots long, they soon sweep the ground, 

 and present a pyramid of flowers. 



2009. The nature of the stocks, whether the dog-rose or the Manetti bo 

 s\3lected, limits the height to which weeping roses may be grown ; but there 

 seems to be no reason why either of them should not attain the height of ten 

 or twelve feet, with a proportionate thickness. But in this case the chief sup- 

 port must be provided by a strong stake of wood or iron to which the stock 

 may be fastened, while the head is extended outwards and directed down- 

 wards. For this purpose light iron rods and wire-hoops, of sufficient circum- 

 ference, will be found very useful. If grown simply as an object of decoration 

 on the lawn, a standard seven feet high, with a head five feet in diameter, 

 formed of some of the climbing roses, as the Evergreen rose, decorated with 

 some of the perpetual hybrids, as La Eeine, Colonel de Eougemont, or 

 General Simpson, drooping to the gi-ound in a curving line, or on a larger 

 scale forming an arbour, will form a beautiful tree when in bloom. 



■2010. Mr. Rivers gives a very instructive piece of gossip in his " Rose- Ama- 

 teur's Guide. " A friend of his, near Guildford, had his ground traversed by a 

 railway, which was crossed by an unsightly brick bridge, and he was consulted 

 how the bridge might be concealed. Ivy was too heavy, and he suggested 

 evergi-een roses. "They were planted with difficulty, the gravel being 

 loosened with a pick, and some manure mixed with it. The roses grew with 

 great rapidity, and soon covered every brick ; but when they bloomed in large 

 beautiful masses, some disappomtment was expressed at the monotony of 

 coloui-. I was prepared for this, and told my friend that they must be deco- 

 rated. An incredulous smile met me with, 'How?' ThOn"^ ;s .aluly, the 

 budding season. I proceeded with the gardener to the rcing was re and we 

 took thence buds of the most beautiful hybrid perpetuals, n( the trees a'j some 

 of the bright rose-coloured tints, such as La Reine, Colonendarr-e xf mont. 

 General Simpson, our great horse being General Jacqueminot. My budding 

 hand had not forgot its cunning ; so I and the gardener proceeded to place 

 buds in every shoot favourable to our purpose. Nearly all the buds 'took,' 

 to use the gardener's phrase ; that is to say, lived, and many of them put 

 forth fine clusters of bloom the following August and September. I paid my 

 annual visit to my friend in June the nest year. As I approached the bridge, 

 what a glorious sight met my eye. Amid the masses of flowers of the pale 

 climbing roses, shone forth large clusters of the Geant, Jacquemmot, Triomphe 

 des Beaux Arts, Prince Noir, Comte Bobinsky, Louise Peyronny, Rougemont, 

 Jules Margettin, and others. The bridge was a fah-y avenue, so charming 

 was the effect." 



201 1. Pillar Roses.— There is no form in which the rose grows so gracefully 

 as when they ramble over rocks, and climb up trees or trellis-work, or over 

 the alcove. In the garden, well-planted pillars may become objects of great 



