148 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES 



following March, removing three-fourths of your 

 wood, so as to insure a grand growth in the 

 summer, which, moderately shortened in the suc- 

 ceeding spring, should furnish your pillar, from 

 soil to summit, with flowering lateral shoots. By 

 the time your tree has attained the dimensions 

 required, your observation will have taught you 

 how, for the future, to prune it so that you may 

 be sure of an annual bloom, cutting away all 

 weakly wood, and regulating the general growth 

 with an eye both to form and florescence. As 

 with a vine, if you only put a strong cane into a 

 rich border, and use the knife courageously, you 

 may be sure of grapes. 



As single specimens of Pillar Roses, the following 

 may be tried with confidence : — 



* Anna Alexieff^ free in growth, in foliage, and flowers— the 

 latter of a fresh pure rose-colour, which makes the tree 

 very distinct and charming. 



Baronne Prevost^ another of the few old favourites still claiming 

 a place in the Rosary. The flowers are very large, fragrant, 

 and of a true rose-colour. 



Belle Lyo7inaise^ a daughter of Gloire de Dijon, smaller, paler, 

 and less bountiful than her mother, but a very pretty Rose 

 — referred to, p. 135. 



Blairii 2, a perplexing title (transposed to ' Bleary Eye ' by a 

 cottager of my acquaintance), until we receive the explana- 

 tion that the Rose was one of two seedlings raised by 



1 All the Roses in this list, except Gloire de Bourdeaux, Gloire de 

 Dijon, and Jaune Desprez, are of the Hybrid Perpetual family. 



