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TRAINING. 



the display of the flowers is an object, the trellis-work must not be 

 continuous, but rather of arches springing from piers of trellis-work, or 



Tig. 267. 



Portrait of a Bizarre de la Chine rose, trained in the balloon manner. 



pilasters, at short distances from each other, so as to admit the light 

 between. When this is neglected, the plants will only look well on 



Fig. 268. 



their outer surface. The laburnum, when 

 trained over an arched trellis of this kind, 

 has a splendid effect when in flower ; but 

 when the trellis is continuous, the blossoms 

 have a pale, sickly appearance, as we wit- 

 nessed some years ago at a country seat, 

 where the trellis of which fig. 269 is a 

 section was covered with laburnum ; the 

 low table trellis, a, a, being clothed with 

 ivy. The contrast between the dark green 

 ivy and the yellow blossoms would have 

 been effective, had the latter enjoyed the 

 benefit of light. 



Evergreen shrubs require very little 

 training, excepting in the case of fasti- 

 Propwithumbrella-topforspread- giate-growing species in situations exposed 

 ing headed climbers, and for to high winds, or shrubs that are to be 

 training other plants round shorn into artificial shapes. The evergreen 

 their stems. 



