THE ROSE AXD ITS CULTUEE. 



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The meaning of this will he more apparent if the 

 hahit of those Eoses is compared with that of the 

 Baroness Eothschild and her various sports, which no 

 skill could compel to weep. 



The majority of the more slender-growing Teas 

 also weep fairly well, and are well worth a trial where 



Fig. 46.— Tall Standard (6 feet of stem). 



the climate is sufficiently mild for them. The same 

 remarks apply to the China, Bom-bon, Hybrid China, 

 and Noisette Eoses. The Hybrid Teas, too, of the 

 type and shape of Cheshunt Hybrid, will all make 

 good weeping Eoses. But such florif erous Teas as the 

 Gloire de Dijon are almost too short and stiff in their 

 flower-stems and flowering branchlets to form a 

 graceful weeping Eose. For the same reason almost 

 all the Hybrid Perpetuals refuse to weep, Boule de 

 Neige, rapidly grown and carefully trained, being the 

 most likely one to succeed witb . The climbing Aimee 

 Vibert weeps well, and even that bright and brilliant 

 yellow Eose, Harrisonii, where it grows fi'eely, may 

 he formed into a small weeping Eose of a veiy unique 

 colour and character. A good many of the more 

 moderate-growing Perpetuals may also be converted 



into semi-drooping standards, a pretty hybrid form, 

 about intermediate between the true standard and 

 the weeping Eose. 



But to have true weeping Eoses really worthy of the 

 name, we must fall back upon the Aj-rshire, Evergreen, 

 and other true climbing Eoses. As several of these 

 can rim to a height of from eight to eighteen feet, 

 it follows that they will weep down almost as far ; 

 and hence, with such material, the height and size 

 of weeping Eoses can be easily determined by the 

 height of oiu^ budding or starting-point. For there 

 are but two general modes of forming weeping 



Fig. 47. — Average Standard (3 feet of stem). 



Eoses : that of budding on tall briars, or selecting 

 and supporting a growth of the Eose to any desired 

 height, then beheading it and forcing it to break 

 into the requisite number of shoots, and suppressing 

 all others on the plant. The first is the quickest 

 and best method of fomiing and establishing weep- 

 ing Eoses. As the strain on weeping Eoses is very 

 gTcat, theii' area being often so considerable as to 

 form a covered arbour, with a seat under their far- 

 spreading boughs, they should be either trained up 

 the bole of a li\-ing tree, sufficient branchlets being 

 left on to keep it alive, or have a strong iron sup- 

 port given them at once ; to this one or more wire 

 hoops could he attached at the top to train the- 

 Eose over, to give it at once stability and spnme- 

 try (see Fig. 45, page 114, Vol. 11.) . Some little 



