SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP. 



kind to mix with it, it being quite useless to plant the 

 shrub unless it be made capable of bearing flowers, 

 which it will not in a poor hungry soil. Roses may 

 be trained against houses, and especially the Chinese 

 rose. In this case, care should be taken to prune out 

 old wood occasionally, and to shorten the shoots so 

 as to keep the tree in bearing condition. If roses, as 

 standards, are required to be of considerable height, oc- 

 casional pruning must take place to keep the head in 

 order, and to prevent one part from rambling beyond 

 another. All the roses but the Chinese bear upon wood 

 of the last year or some former year ; that is to say, 

 there must be wood of a year old or more for a little 

 shoot to come out of to bear the flowers. The height of 

 your dwarf rose must depend upon that of its surround- 

 ing neighbours : if they be low, as in a flower-border or 

 flower-garden, the roses must be so pruned down in the 

 winter as to leave no part of the shrub more than a foot 

 high, taking care to leave the strongest and best wood : 

 out of this wood come little shoots that bear the roses. 

 A Chinese rose will send out a long shoot from the 

 ground in the spring, which will bear flowers during the 

 same year. If this rose stand in a low border, it must 

 be cut down to within a foot of the ground, or it over- 

 tops every thing in a short time. 



388. SAGE, Jerusalem. Lat. Phlomis fruticosa.Fr. 

 Phlomis frutescent. A hardy shrub of Spain and Sicily, 

 tjiree or four feet high, and blows a yellow flower in 

 July, August, and September. Propagated by dividing 

 the roots, and by sowing in beds prepared for that pur- 

 pose. Not particular as to soil. 



