CULTURE. 7 1 



Culture. 



The varieties of Rosa sempervirens are of the 

 easiest culture, as they seem to flourish in all soils 

 and situations. In sheltered places and under 

 trees they are nearly evergreen, retaining their 

 leaves till spring. This makes them valuable for 

 covering banks, trees, or walls. I know of no 

 rose idea prettier than that of a wilderness of 

 Evergreen Roses, the varieties planted promiscu- 

 ously, and suffered to cover the surface of the 

 ground with their entangled shoots. To effect 

 this, the ground should be dug, manured, and 

 thoroughly cleaned from perennial weeds, such as 

 couch grass, &c., and the plants planted from 

 three to five feet asunder. If the soil be rich, 

 the latter distance will do ; they must be hoed 

 amongst, and kept clean from weeds after plant- 

 ing, till the branches meet ; they will then soon 

 form a beautiful mass of foliage and flowers, co- 

 vering the soil too densely for weeds of minor 

 growth to flourish. Those weeds that are more 

 robust should be pulled out occasionally; and 

 this is all the culture they will require : for tem- 

 ples, columns, wire fences which they soon cover 

 with beauty, and verandahs, their use is now 

 becoming well known. One of the most com- 

 plete temples of roses is that at the seat of 



Warner, Esq., Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire ; and the 

 prettiest specimens of festooning these roses from 



