son .MJHour.TU.M AND rKuncr/rrM. PAKT m. 



standard ; :HK! :m-w vrs host lor those climbers which take their origin from h'. 

 sempcrHr-ivps ami Ii. imlica ; hut tor such vigorous-growing climbers as R. M-IU- 

 pervirciiN.aiul ot'all the varieties that partake of the nature of /f.arvdnsis, single 

 steins, with a spreading top, will have the best effect ; because, in these kinds, 

 tin- Ivauty, tor the mo>t part, consists in the grace of the pendulous shoots, 

 and their numerous tufts of foliage and flowers. 



MW/.v covered with Roses .^ Roses are fre(|iiently trained against walls; and, 

 where a collection ot climbing sorts is so disphned, a very <jood mode to keep 

 rach sort within bounds, ami to atlord all an opportunity of equal display, is 

 to place the plant in the centre of the space devoted to it, ami to spread'two 

 leading .shoots hori/ontally from it to the limits of the space allowed, and 

 afterwards to train these 

 shoots perpendicularly up- 

 wards, as in fi<r. .V>7 . The 

 side shoots which are pro- 

 duced by these boundary 

 stems are partly to be cut 

 off, and partly to be trained 

 hori/ontally, as indicated in 

 the figure. This mode of 

 training is very well exem- 

 plified in the 'Horticultural 

 Society's (Jarden; but the collection not being all placed together in regular 

 series, it does not produce so much effect as it otherwise would do. 



Covering Rockn'ork with Rows. Some of the very low-growing kinds, such 

 as R. spino.sissima, produce a very good effect when planted among large 

 blocks of stone, or in the crevices of natural rocks ; but it must not be for- 

 gotten, that, in such situations, the soil cannot be properly cultivated, and, 

 therefore, only unimproved varieties should be employed. 



Muskets of Roses are frequently formed, in flower-gardens and on lawns, by 

 pem, r in^ the branches of the roses close to the ground with hooks, and sur- 

 rounding the group, which should be of a round, o\al, or basket-like shape, 

 with a low frame of wire, or lattice-work. In this case, the ground between 

 the plants has a good effect when covered with live moss, pebbles, or shells. 

 Sometimes roses of the dwarf-growing kinds are elevated in rustic basket- 

 work, and placed in the rosarium or the flower-garden, or on the lawn. 

 These baskets, and sometimes, also, the beds formed in imitation of baskets, 

 have a handle placed over them to increase the illusion, over which climbing 

 roses are trained. 



Kil^inL^s to beds or borders, formed of low-growing roses, and hedges, as 

 already mentioned (p. ?!>().), are not unfrequent in flower-gardens; but, as in 

 the case of rockwork, these modes of growth are not adapted for the more 

 choice kinds, from the difficulty of applying the proper cultivation. 



I'titc/ies of Roses in Flower-Borders. The rose, both as a standard and as 

 a dwarf, is one of the commonest ornaments of mixed flower-borders ; and, 

 since the introduction of the different varieties of fl.indica and ff.seinperflorens, 

 .such borders have been farther enriched by planting annually patches of the har- 

 diest and most free-flowering of these varieties, and treating them as herba- 

 ceous plants. Some of the Noisettes, and of the very dark-flow ered varieties of 

 /<*. j'ndica, thus treated, produce a splendid etiect. The plants may be struck from 

 cuttings in heat tin; same season; or they may be raised in sand under a hand- 

 glass, in a shady border, the preceding year, potted in autumn, kept in a cold- 

 pit through the winter, and planted out in April or May, in holes filled with 

 leaf-mould or rich tree soil. 



I'rojxt^atioH . The rose, till nearly the end of the eighteenth century, was, 

 both on the Continent and in Kngland, almost always propagated by taking 

 up the plant, and dividing it, or by layers. Whether the practice of budding 

 roses originated on the Continent or in Kngland, we are uncertain ; but we 

 think there- can be very little doubt that it was first practised in France : and 



