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week in June. Many do not know what a beautiful 

 Tea Eubens is, unless they have grown it on a wall; 

 and some of the hot-season Teas, such as La Boule 

 d'Or, Maman Cochet, or Medea, will often succeed 

 on a wall, and even not be too early to show, in 

 seasons when they fail in the open. 



No wall should be neglected. I have grown the 

 best of Teas on the low wall surrounding a deeply 

 gravelled stable yard, and have won a medal with 

 Souvenir d'Elise from this hopeless-looking place. 

 I have in such cases planted the stock against the 

 wall and budded it there, with no preparation of the 

 soil. The stock rooted itself firmly and strongly, and 

 when the Eose began to grow I found that a big basin 

 or depression in the soil round the root and plenti- 

 ful supplies of liquid manure were sufficient for the 

 production of capital growth and splendid blooms. 



Walls facing due South are not, however, to be 

 commended for the climbing Eoses, except perhaps 

 in the more northerly parts of the country : the full 

 strength of the sun in cloudless summer days is too 

 much for them ; the flowers come out in a rush and 

 are soon over, and the plant is too tmuch forced and 

 exhausted to furnish much autumn bloom. 



Apart from walls or buildings, the question of 

 shelter is a difficult one; for it must be carefully 

 remembered that the neighbourhood of trees, shrubs, 

 or hedges whose roots can reach the beds, and also 

 all actual shade, should be sedulously avoided. 

 And, again, the situation must be quite free and 

 open, not close and stuffy ; and if no shelter what- 

 ever can be had, the finest Eoses can still be grown, 

 for the grounds of nurserymen, even those who are 

 most successful at the shows, are absolutely open 



