A TRELLIS FOR THE CRIMSON RAMBLER. 



O many of our readers have 

 selected this rose from our 

 list this spring, that any in- 

 formation concerning it will 

 be widely read. In all, we have sent 

 out about 1,500 plants of the Crimson 

 Rambler, and thus introduced this ex. 

 cellent novelty into nearly every part of 

 Ontario. We noticed in Vick's Magazine 

 a trellis for this and other climbing or 

 half climbing roses, with note as fol- 

 lows : — 



Besides training climbing roses on 

 walls and about verandas and porches, 

 as most frequently seen, and where they 

 are displayed to fine advantage, they 

 may also be put to other uses. 



A low trellis may be made with posts 

 and wire. The post can stand four feet 

 above ground, and be furnished with 

 three lengths of wire — one along the 

 top, one about fifteen inches from the 

 ground, and the other equally distant 

 from the upper and lower one. If the 

 posts are six feet apart; a strong plant 

 of the Crimson Rambler will fully 

 occupy three spaces between the posts, 

 or eighteen feet in length with one or 

 more canes to each wire. The wire 

 should be about number twelve in size 

 and be drawn tight and fastened to the 

 posts by means of staples, in the same 

 manner as grape trellises. The trellis 

 can run along by a garden path and be 

 of any desired length. Not only what 

 are called the Rambler roses, but our 

 hardy Baltimore Belle, Queen of the 

 Prairie, and other hardy climbers, and 

 at the South, the Ayrshire, Banksia, 

 and the Noisette and Climbing Teas 

 can be managed in the same way. 



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