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Standard or Bush Roses. We must confess we do not admire them as such, and 

 think them better fitted to form Pergolas, Climbers, Pillars, or Weepers. If the Rose 

 is more beautiful under one form than another, it is perhaps when fashioned as a 

 Pillar Rose. Every Rosarium, and, indeed, every Flower Garden, should include 

 some of them. We have previously stated that they may be introduced to the 

 Rosarium to form the boundary-line of the summer and autumn gardens. In the 

 Flower Garden they may be planted to form temples, avenues, single specimens on 

 lawns, or in groups of three, five, or more. If planted in a ring round a circular clump 

 on a lawn, at some distance from its circumference, we should conceive the effect to be 

 good. The best kinds are the Ayrshire, Sempervirens, Boursault, Hybrid Chinese, 





Fig. 9.* RUSTIC FENCE COVERED WITH ROSES. 



Noisette, Hybrid Perpetual and Hybrid Tea-scented, some of which show themselves 

 better suited for the purpose than others, and which we shall point out when we come 

 to speak of Pillar Roses. 



Climbing Roses may be introduced to the Flower Garden to advantage as a, 

 cover for fences, or to hide any object disagreeable to the eye. Fig. 9* is an example 

 of this taken from actual life. The Roses are leafless and partially pruned, so that 

 the fence is shown, but this is entirely hidden by the ample foliage and blossoms 

 during summer and autumn. When it is wished to cover a high fence or building 

 quickly, some of the strongest growers should be chosen, budded on tall stems ; the 

 space left beneath may be covered with kinds of less rampant growth. Climbing 

 Roses may be planted to cover arbours, rustic seats, or to form arcades or arches 



over walks. I have seen them trained on arches by the sides of walks, a line of arches 

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