82 GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS 



except a few from the climbing Tea-scented and Noisette sections to 

 vary the colouring. If well chosen they are excellent for bordering the 

 lawn or for the centres of beds. 



Climbing Roses under Glass. Climbing Roses succeed best 

 when they can receive plenty of heat and moisture after flowering the 

 first time to perfect new wood for the following season. The old wood 

 is partially cut away when the flowers are gathered, and by giving heat 

 and moisture fine new rods are produced, which should be well ripened. 

 Climbing Roses also succeed well if the long growths produced the pre- 

 vious summer are bent down on a framework of wire or wood about a 

 foot from the side benches. A flower-bud, with of course a short stem, 

 will start from nearly every one of the eyes. After flowering cut the 

 shoots back hard to promote fine long rods early in the year. This is 

 only possible where artificial heat is available. Unless that is so it is 

 better to leave the growths unpruned and thin them when they become 

 crowded or too old, merely shortening the laterals to one or two eyes. 



Mare*chal Niel Rose under Glass. This glorious Rose deserves 

 a house to itself, but this is seldom possible. It must be grown with a 

 variety of greenhouse plants. The three points essential to success are : 

 a good border ; a healthy plant, well rooted, and young ; good annual 

 growths thoroughly hardened. 



A Good Border should be made inside the house. Prepare it as if 

 for a Grape Vine. Remove the old soil to a depth of 3 feet ; put about 

 9 inches of drainage in the bottom, consisting of clinkers, large stones, 

 or broken bricks. Then fill up with a compost of three-parts fibrous 

 loam, one-part cow dung, and a 6-inch pot of bone-meal to each wheel- 

 barrow-load of soil. When the loam is obtained fresh from a meadow 

 put the turfy portions with the grass side downwards. This work should 

 be done some five or six weeks before planting time, which is for pre- 

 ference in October. 



A Healthy Plant. The best stock to grow Mare*chal Niel upon is 

 a hedge briar, known as a half-standard. The briar may either be planted 

 first and budded afterwards, or a plant procured already budded. When 

 the latter, see that it has an abundance of fibrous roots. When this is 

 the style selected, prune its growths back to within an inch or two from 

 where it has been budded. This can be accomplished about January or 

 February. Do not give too much heat at first. The slower the new 

 growths break the better, and as they grow, train them horizontally. 

 If the plant is put on one side near the centre, one growth would be 

 trained to the right and one to the left. These would probably reach 

 further than the ends if so, do not prevent them. Pinch out the points 

 in September to help the shoots to ripen. These two arms provide, as 

 it were, the limbs for the base of future shoots. The following spring, 

 retain the growths of the same length as the house is, then, as the new 

 shoots break out, the best are led up the roof and tied to wires. More 

 shoots break out than are wanted ; the best only are retained, and, as 

 far as possible, at even distances apart, say about one foot. Suppose 

 the roots work freely, these shoots will go up the roof on one side and 



