92 MY GROWING GARDEN 



American Beauty for its size, color, form and mass 

 of bloom, and the Tausendschon for its daintiness 

 and variety in pink and white, as well as for its 

 marvelous clusters. It was this "Thousand Beau- 

 ties" rose that started the idea of the particular 

 sort of rose-hedge I have worked out. At first 

 the supporting wires were less than three feet 

 from the ground, but my rose friend Robert Pyle 

 told me, after his memorable rose-summer in 

 Europe, that Tausendschon did best at its German 

 home when its graceful branches might droop their 

 flower-laden length from a high post. Promptly I 

 set up a proper post for the rose; and then, for 

 symmetry's sake, did the same at five other points. 

 All the roses were viciously thorny, save only 

 Tausendschon; and when I tied them up that 

 winter, I saw that more spread was needed, if only 

 to give chance to avoid thorns. So I bought brass 

 chain, and looped it from each post summit to a 

 proper point on the hedge wire to give a graceful 

 slope, after which, and all through one season, the 

 roses were trained into and along this weathered 

 chain and the space below it. The next season 

 showed the effectiveness of the plan, for the bloom- 

 ing result was most beautiful. 



Near the Tausendschon, another plant of Alberic 

 Barbier had been set. It has worked all through 



