T04 THE BOOK OF GARDENING. 



Climbing Tea Roses. 



In every garden these are almost always found in some form 

 or other ; their suitability for training against walls, up pillars, 

 over arches, and also up the roofs of glass-houses, and for 

 other purposes, has given them a position from which it is 

 improbable that they will ever be displaced. Occasionally 

 complaints are heard that climbing Tea Roses which have been 

 planted against the walls of a house refuse to grow. In the 

 majority of instances this is caused by the projecting eaves of the 

 house throwing off all moisture, the roots thus becoming almost 

 dust-dry. In such cases copious supplies of water should be 



given during the 

 summer months, 

 until the roots 

 have extended 

 sufficiently wide 

 to be able to 

 dispense with 

 this assistance. An- 

 other cause of failure 

 is the exhaustion ot 

 all plant-food available . 

 for the roots. In the 

 open beds the plants 

 mulched with rich 

 manure, but this is rarely 

 done with trees trained 

 against the walls of a 

 residence, nor is it desir- 

 able, as the manure would 

 be unsightly; but diluted 

 liquid manure can be gi\en freely 

 early in the morning, and any un- 

 pleasant smell wnll have passed away 

 before the family are about. A very 

 good manure, devoid of all objection- 

 able smell, is 2oz. of superphosphate, 2oz. of fine bone-meal, and 

 loz. of nitrate of soda, applied early in May, to each square yard; 

 this will act beneficially on both growth and flowers. 



With climbing Tea Roses, hard pruning is not advisable ; all 

 the strong, vigorous shoots should be allowed to remain nearly 



Fig. 49. — Rose A^iphetos. 



