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TRAINING. 



tached to twine, continued from the wire to pegs stuck in the ground, as 

 \own in the figure. When it is desired to cover the stem of a spreading- 



Fig. 2G9. Portrait of a Bizarre de la Chine rose, trained in the balloon manner. 



headed climber with the foliage and flowers of a different plant, the taste 

 of which is questionable, as they never grow so freely in such a situation 

 where they are shaded and the roots of the plants starved, then, fig. 270, 



which was used on the lawn of George IV.'s 

 cottage at Windsor Park, may be used. Climb- 

 ing roses may also be advantageously displayed 

 on such props as fig. 94, in p. 163, and more 

 slender climbers, as well as standard roses, and 

 other shrubs, trained to single stems, may be 

 tied to stakes of larch, oak, ash, or sweet ches- 

 nut, or to cast-iron stakes, such as those shown 

 at a and b in fig. 95, in p. 164. When climbers 

 or other flowering plants are trained on arched 

 treUises, covering walks, it must be borne in 

 mind that if the display of the flowers is an 

 object, the trellis- work must not be continuous, 

 but rather of arches springing from piers of 

 Fig. 270. Prop with umbrella top for trcllis-work, or pilastcrs, at short distances 



spreading headed climbers, and for from Cach Othor, SO aS CO admit the light he- 

 training other plants rormd their stems. ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^j^jg neglected, the plants 



will only look well on their outer surface. The laburnum, when trained 

 over an arched trellis of this kind, has a splendid effect when in flower ; 

 but when the trellis is continuous, the blossoms have a pale, sickly appear- 



