82 WOOD AND GARDEN 



vhen it arrives I feel like distributing it with a spoon 

 rather than with the spade. Moreover, even if a 

 bed is filled with the precious loam, unless constantly 

 watered the plants seem to feel and resent the two 

 hundred feet of dry sand and rock that is under them 

 before any moister stratum is reached. 



But the Tea Roses are more accommodating, and do 

 fairly well, though, of course, not so well as in a stiffer 

 soil. If I were planting again I should grow a still 

 larger proportion of the kinds I have now found to do 

 best. Far beyond aU others is Madame Lambard, good 

 alike early and late, and beautiful at all times. In this 

 garden it yields quite three times as much bloom as 

 any other; nothing else can approach it either for 

 beauty or bounty. Viscoimtess Folkestone, not properly 

 a Tea, but classed among Hybrid Noisettes, is also free 

 and beautiful and long-enduring ; and Papa Gontier, so 

 like a deeper-coloured Lambard, is another favourite. 

 Bouquet d'Or is here the strongest of the Dijon Teas. 

 I grow it in several positions, but most conveniently on 

 a strong bit of oak post and rail trelUs, keeping the 

 long growths tied down, and every two years cutting the 

 oldest wood right out. It is well to remember that 

 the tying or pegging down of Roses always makes them 

 bloom better : every joint from end to end wants to 

 make a good Rose ; if the shoots are more upright, the 

 blooming strength goes more to the top. 



The pruning of Tea Roses is quite different from 

 the pruning required for the Hybrid Perpetuals. In 



