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common phrase, nearly all the buds * took,' i. e. 

 lived, and many of them put forth fine clusters of 

 bloom the following August and September. I 

 paid my annual visit to my friend in June of the 

 next year, just eleven months after my budding 

 exploit. As I approached the bridge, I felt full 

 of interest about my buds. What a glorious sight 

 met my eye ! Amid the masses of flowers of the 

 pale climbing roses, shone forth large clusters of 

 the Geant, General Jacqueminot, Triomphe des 

 Beaux Arts, Prince Noir, Comte Bobrinsky, 

 Louise Peyronny, Colonel de Rougemont, Jules 

 Margottin, and others; the bridge was a fairy 

 avenue, so charming was the effect. 



I have a full and fervent belief that ere long 

 banks and avenues of decorated roses will be in 

 every rose-garden, and that their culture will be 

 carried to an extent we at present scarcely dream 

 of. I have one rose friend who has formed his 

 rose-walk with network of iron wire, fastened to 

 upright iron rods ; the meshes formed by crossing 

 the wire occasionally are twelve or fifteen inches 

 in diameter, so as effectually to support the 

 shoots of the climbing roses. 



This walk, in the course of a year or two, 

 will be between two upright walls of * De- 

 corated Roses,' and I can scarcely imagine any- 

 thing in rose culture more beautiful. It must 

 be borne in mind that no arches, unless some 

 fifteen feet apart, and no arched coverings must 



