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PARSONS ON THE ROSE. 



Climbing roses require very mucli the same treatment 

 as pillar roses, and are frequently trained over arches, or 

 in festoons from one i3illar to another. In these the weak 

 branches should also be thinned out, and the strong ones 

 be allowed to remain, Avithout being shortened, as in these 

 an abundant bloom is wanted, rather than large flowers. 

 An arbor, made by training roses from one pillar to 

 another, is represented in figure 7. In training climbing 



Fig*. 7.— A ROSE ARBOR. 



roses over any flat surface, as a trellis, W' all, or side of a 

 house, the principal point is so to place the leading 

 shoots that all the intermediate space may be filled up 

 Avith foliage. They can either be trained in fan-shape, 

 with side shoots growing out from a main stem, or 

 one leading shoot can be encouraged and trained in 

 parallel horizontal lines to the top, care being taken to 

 preserve suflicient intermediate space for the foliage. ^ 

 Where no shoots are wanted, the buds can be rubbed ofiT 

 before they push out. No Aveak shoots should be al- 

 lowed to grow from the bottom, but all the strong ones 

 should be allowed to groAV as much as they may. When 

 the intermediate space is filled Avith young wood and fo- 



