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Hatisburg, Due de Gazes, Jean Soupert, Julia 

 Touvais, Abel Carriere, &c., are sufficiently spiny 

 to be incorporated with Wbitetborn without greatly 

 weakening- the defensive character of a hedge. The 

 following less prickly varieties might also be used, by 

 having their resisting powers strengthened by inter- 

 lacing, diamond fashion or otherwise : Mdlle. Annie 

 Wood, Mdlle. Marie Eady, Madame Clemence 

 Joigneaux, Edward Morren, Souvenir de CoUomniers, 

 Due de Montpensier, Due de Eohan, and, in a word, 

 almost all the Perpetual and other Roses recom- 

 mended for pillars and pyramids. Other and less 

 spiny and dense-growing Roses might be employed 

 more as drapery on and in hedges, than as forming a 

 part of them. Of such it may often be said in the 

 words of Jean Ingelow — ■ 



" The Roses that in yonder hedge appear, 

 Outdo our garden buds which bloom within." 



For forming hedges more for ornament than as 

 barriers against live stock, almost any of the 

 Roses named in the chapter on Pyramidal and Pillar 

 Roses, and for arches, will answer the purpose. The 

 most brilliant Rose hedge ever seen by the writer was 

 formed of the Gloire des Rosamenes alone. The old 

 2Jink and crimson China, mixed, also form a good 

 lloriferous hedge. The two Noisettes, Aimee Vibert 

 and Eellenberg, planted alternately about a yard 

 apart, form a hedge of red and wdiite which few 

 combinations can inatch in chasteness and brilliancy. 

 Coupe d'Hebe, Charles Lawson, Blairii No. 2, 

 Chenedole, Paul Ricaut, with Madame Plantier, 

 and the Ayrshire Dundee Rambler, thrown in for 

 whites, form a charming hedge. Other, and even 

 richer hedges, may be formed of such Roses as the 

 Persian yellow, Austrian yellow and copper-coloured, 

 the crimson Boursault, the Garland, Splendens 

 Thoreslyana, Williams' Evergreen and Felicite 

 Perpetuelle, and other Ayrshire, Hybrid, China, and 

 Evergreen Roses. 



Such strikingly beautiful, vigorous, and strong 

 Roses as the White Baroness, the Grandeur of 

 Cheshunt, Paul's single red, white and crimson Per- 

 petuals, will probably become important features in 

 the Rose hedges of the future. 



In specially mild localities, the most charmingly 

 sweet and floriferous Rose hedges are formed of 

 Chinese, Bourbon, and Tea Roses. The Cramoisie 

 Superieure, with its climbing sport, James Sprunt, 

 and the pure white Ducher and Clara Sylvain, a 

 vigorous-growing white Rose ; Baronne Gonella ; 

 Setina, a climbing form of Armosa, a most profuse- 

 blooming Bourbon Rose ; Queen of Bedders, Aimee 

 Yibert, especially the climbing variety, Cheshunt 

 Hybrid, and Camoens would form most floriferous 

 Rose hedges. 



Coming to the Teas, what a hedge of beauty could 

 be formed of the two well-known Glories, Gloire de 

 Dijon and Gloire de Bordeaux I • Among others that 

 might be used to form hedges arc Beaute d'Euvope, 

 Bougere, Comtesse Riza du Pare, Duchess of Edin- 

 burgh, Francisca Krugcr, Emily Duprez, May I'aui, 

 Souvenir de Paul Neron. 



As to culture, provided vigorous varieties are 

 chosen, and that these- are planted with tlie other 

 hedge-plants, the Roses are generally able to take 

 care of themselves. But if jjlanted at a later date, 

 the roots of the Quick or other hedge-plants will 

 prove such formidable livals as to starve the Rose- 

 roots. There are two modes of fostering the Roses 

 under these adverse circumstances — the jDlanting 

 of them at some considerable distance from the 

 hedge, and the isolation of the roots from those of 

 the hedge-plants by some such methods as have been 

 indicated. Care must also be taken that the other 

 hedge-plants may not smother or strangle the Roses 

 in the fierce struggle for life tliat is ajjt to be waged 

 against them when they are planted in established 

 hedges. 



Rose hedges, if they are to prove successful, 

 need ample support in two ways, or rather at two 

 places — root and top. To pro^ide the former, 

 trench the ground to a depth of three or fom- feet 

 and a width of six or nine, working in during the 

 process a heavy dressing of farm-yard manure, and 

 remove all roots of weeds, brambles, &c. If the 

 natural soil is good and the subsoiL fairly dry, this 

 preparation will suffice. If not, a drain must be rvm 

 along under or near to the hedge, at least a foot 

 deeper than the soil has been trenched, and better 

 soil substituted for the bad. Of course, in planting 

 Roses in or against existing hedges, the preparation 

 cannot be so thorough, but should proceed on similar 

 jDrinciples. 



Before planting the Roses for a hedge, a row of 

 strong stakes should be placed along the centre of 

 the space, and driven a foot or more into the solid 

 undistui'bed earth. These may vary in height, 

 according to that of the hedge. Nothing answei-s 

 better than young Larch poles with the snags and 

 bark left on. The tops may be of a imiform height, 

 or otherwise. ■ By having the stakes and Roses of 

 various heights, a more irregular or pictiu'esque 

 hedge will be the result. From four to eight feet 

 will be found convenient and effective heights for 

 Rose hedges. There is yet another, cheaper, though 

 hardly so i^icturesque, way of supporting Rose 

 hedges through their earlier stages. The stakes 

 may be stronger, placed at wider distances apart, 

 and bound together with rustic rails firmly nailed to 

 them. Tln-ee rails would suffice for the tallest 

 hedges ; two for the more dwarf ones. To these the 



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