38 WOOD AND GARDEN 



The time has come for pruning Roses, and for tying 

 up and training the plants that clothe wall and fence 

 and pergola. And this sets one thinking about climb- 

 ing and rambling plants, and all their various ways 

 and wants, and of how best to use them. One of my 

 boundaries to a road is a fence about nine feet high, 

 wall below and close oak paling above. It is planted 

 with free-growing Roses of several types — Aim^e Vibert, 

 Madame Alfred Carrifere, Reine Olga de Wurtemburg 

 and Bouquet d'Or, the strongest of the Dijon teas. Then 

 comes a space of Clematis montana and Clematis Jlam- 

 mula, and then more Roses — Madame Plantier, Emilia 

 Plantier (a delightful Rose to cut), and some of the 

 grand Sweetbriars raised by Lord Penzance. 



From midsummer onward these Roses are con- 

 tinually cut for flower, and yield an abundance of 

 quite the most ornamental class of bloom. For I like 

 to have cut Roses arranged in a large, free way, with 

 whole branches three feet or four feet long, easy to 

 have from these free-growing kinds, that throw out 

 branches fifteen feet long in one season, even on our 

 poor, sandy soil, that contains no particle of that rich 

 loam that Roses love. I think this same Reine Olga, 

 the grand grower from which have come our longest 

 and largest primings, must be quite the best evergreen 

 Rose, for it holds its full clothing of handsome dark- 

 green leaves right through the winter. It seems to 

 like hard pruning. I have one on a part of the per- 

 gola, but have no pleasure from it, as it has rushed 



