PART 11 

 Roses to Proceed With 



CHAPTER IX 



ROSES FOR WALLS AND FENCES 



Very few amateurs seem to appreciate the value of 

 walls in a garden, if one may judge by the very ordinary 

 plants usually grown thereon. So far as roses are con- 

 cerned, it is often more difficult to coax a common variety 

 to success on a warm, sunny, and, therefore, precious wall 

 than it is to induce a choice one to thrive there. Walls 

 that afford ideal positions for exquisite Tea and Hybrid 

 Tea roses are often planted with those that would be far 

 happier in the open garden, fully exposed to the fresh 

 air. How difficult it is, for instance, to succeed with 

 Crimson Rambler and other similar roses on a hot wall, 

 yet how very simple to grow them to perfection on an 

 arch or arbour in the open garden. All walls having a 

 south, south-west, or west aspect should certainly be 

 reserved for roses that need shelter and aU the warmth 

 the garden is capable of affording them. How fascinating 

 on a warm wall are the climbing Teas, for instance, that 

 seem gradually to be falling out of cultivation ; how 

 easy there, yet how difficult anjrwhere else. One sighs, 

 again, for some discrimination among rosarians when one 



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