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winds prevail, they require stoat stakes or iron rods for their 

 support, even more than they do in Europe. The stocks 

 employed by Mr. M'Murray were of the Kosa gigantea or 

 multiflora. 



Pillar Eoses. Eoses when trained in this way (and it is 

 only such as make long and vigorous shoots that can be so), 

 have a very beautiful appearance. Proceed thus : cut away 

 clean from the ground all but three stems, and train these to a 

 stout stake or Bamboo, six feet or more high. To induce these 

 stems to produce flowering shoots along their whole length, in 

 October shorten their tops, unfasten them from their stake, and 

 lay them at full length upon the ground. Left thus in a 

 horizontal position, the buds upon them will break into shoots ; 

 which otherwise they would not have done. When they have 

 done so, carefully raise the stems and bind them to their stake 

 again. These sidelong shoots, pruned back after flowering, will 

 form the blossoming spurs in after years. The main stems, 

 however, are said soon to wear out, when they require to be 

 cut completely down and replaced by fresh ones. 



Situation and soil. Eoses, raised either from cuttings or 

 layers, will come into full perfection of bearing by the second 

 season after they have been planted out, particularly if they 

 have received liberal treatment. They do not like a wet, 

 undrained soil, and as little do they like a dry and arid one. 

 It is therefore best to plant them in a gently raised bed, from 

 which the superabundance of wet during the Eains may pass 

 off; but as a situation of this kind subjects them to a greater 

 degree of drought during the Hot months, they must at that 

 season be, from time to time, liberally supplied with water. 

 Generally speaking they suffer during March more than at any 

 other period of the year. In that month it not uufrequently 

 happens that the leaves are entirely devoured by some insect 

 that seems to prey upon them during the night. 



A writer in the ' Gardeners' Chronicle' states that " charred 

 garden refuse is used largely by Messrs. Wood in the cultivation 

 of Eoses ; " * and Mr. Eivers recommends turves pared thinly 

 and baked in an oven, or roasted upon an iron plate, as an 

 excellent ingredient to mix in the soil for Eoses.f Acting upon 

 this I have made parings of Doob-grass, laid them several days 



* No. for July 30th, 1859. f ' Rose Amateur's Guide,' p. 175, 6th edit. 



