Rose division between one part of the garden and another. They 



Madame will require little or no support beyond a preliminary stake 



Plantier and about four feet high, and require no pruning whatever. A 



Rose judicious amount of tying down to a rail running along from 

 TJ j one stake to another will help them, and prevent their injuring 

 each other's shoots when blown about in a wind, for they are 

 very, in fact horribly, thorny, like all the Rugosas. 



When on the subject of thorns it may not come amiss to 

 state that the old saw or proverb, " No rose without a thorn," 

 is no longer true, for I know of one at least that is perfectly 

 and obligingly thornless Madame Plantier. I am the happy 

 possessor of a large bush about ten years old not very enormous, 

 for it is not a climber. It is about seven feet high and twenty- 

 eight feet round, and has been allowed to have its own way, and 

 as the innumerable blooms expand in small clusters, the thin 

 upstanding stems arch over and form sprays of a pure whiteness 

 unsurpassed. When the flowering is over, the new growth will 

 spring from the ground, and the old wood forms the natural 

 support for the following year. The scent is as delicious as any 

 Rose in the garden, and is like the clean scent of rose-water. 



Madame Plantier, too, will form a low and thick hedge in 

 time, and will, when in full bloom, be a mass of white on both 

 sides. In gardens where there exists an evergreen division 

 between the useful vegetables and the more pleasant and 

 interesting places, the addition of suitable climbing Roses would 

 sometimes be a valuable improvement. It is true that a really 

 old and well-clipped Yew hedge gives a sense of repose, and 

 requires no adornment whatever, and it is best left to its own 

 serene quiet beauty, but I have seen a Holly hedge wreathed 

 with Dundee Rambler^ whose slender branches clung to and 

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