CHAPTER IV 



Banksia roses Fritillaries Crown Imperial Paeonies 

 Magnolias Weeds. 



WHEN we can pick good roses in the open garden we 

 may surely congratulate ourselves that we have left 

 the winter behind us ; and April often brings us good 

 bunches of Banksia roses, white and yellow. If only 

 for its early flowering this rose would be a favourite ; 

 but it has other claims. Its pretty and almost ever- 

 green-foliage, and its climbing habit, make it one of 

 the best shrubs for a wall, and in a very few years 

 it will reach to the top of most houses; while its 

 bunches of very small (almost the smallest of all roses) 

 and very sweet flowers, pure white or yellow (not so 

 sweet), are produced in abundance when the plant is 

 properly pruned and trained ; but all depends on that. 

 The flowers are borne on the last year's wood, and so 

 the long shoots which are produced in the summer 



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