Form of Growth. 



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supports for Pillar Roses? Iron is doubtless the most durable, but also the most 

 expensive : nevertheless, where expense is not a primary consideration, it is thought 

 preferable. The supports more generally used are larch poles,, which have a very rustic 

 appearance when cut from the woods with the snags left projecting a few inches ; 



Fig. 49. CLIMBING ROSE ON TREF. AYRSHIRE RUGA. 



these hold the shoots in place, and prevent them from being torn about by the wind. 

 But the want of durability is a great drawback on the value of these poles. In the 

 course of three or four years, just as the Rose has covered the pole, the latter often 

 decays at the surface of the ground, a gale of wind lays it prostrate, and the result 



