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flower-laden sprays from quite unexpected heights. 

 But of all the Roses of the year I think there are 

 none more truly welcome than those of autumn. 



The long-branching Teas, that one can cut of lavish 

 length, and especially the Noisettes, are always faithful 

 in the quantity and persistence of their autumn bloom. 

 From the end of August to the end of September, 

 sometimes even later, one can enjoy these lovely things 

 in quantity. Most trusty of all is Climbing Aimee 

 Vibert, with its wide-spread terminal clusters of 

 charming warm-white flower and rose-edged bud. 

 The flowers of Madame Alfred Carriere, another white 

 Rose, are also in plenty ; large and loose and of a warm- 

 white colour impossible to describe, but that may some- 

 times be seen in some shell of delicate structure. No 

 Rose of all the year is lovelier in water in a loose long- 

 stalked bunch ; the pale polished leaves being also of 

 much beauty. 



I have found it well to plant a number of such 

 Roses for cutting, training them down to a slight fence- 

 like support of post and rail ; bending them over all 

 one way, so that the head of one comes far beyond the 

 root of another. 



This kind of low training, like pegging down Roses 

 over beds, has also the advantage of inciting them to 

 bloom more freely, as they then form flowering shoots 

 along a greater length of the stem. 



It should not be forgotten that some Roses are in 

 fact evergreens ; retaining all or part of their foliage 



