34 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



beautiful effect during the flowering season. 

 The varieties best fitted to this mode of culti- 

 vation are the Rosa arvensis, with semi-double 

 blossoms ; the sempervirens, the bracteata, the 

 Roxburghi, the moschata y the Banksiana, and 

 multiflora ; the four last of which require to be 

 covered up with straw or matting during severe 

 frosts, when, if the extreme branches perish, 

 they are soon replaced with new shoots. In 

 other respects, these creeping roses are cul- 

 tivated in the same mode as others ; with the 

 exception that, for the two or three first years, 

 they must be allowed to run with very moderate 

 pruning, so as to furnish a good length for 

 festooning. 



A favourite mode of training the Boursault 

 and multiflora roses in French rosaries, is to 

 let them attain a considerable height from the 

 ground; and in the month of October, unite 

 the young shoots of several trees into a large 

 hollow sphere, which, in the course of the follow- 

 ing summer, forms a ball of verdure, adorned 

 with several varieties of flowers.* 



INSECTS. The rose, says Loudon, is very 

 subject to the attacks of insects, especially of 

 the aphides. The briar and Scotch rose are 

 attacked by the cynips roses ; and the common 

 earwig and lady-bird frequent the flowers and 



* Fide Tarade's Culture des Eglantiers. 



