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THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



August 24, 1912. 



SOME GOOD PILLAR ROSES. 



The variety found among climbing roses 

 is vtM y great, and at times it is d-thcuU to 

 t* ilieni just repre^ieiitation ui gaiden 

 uecoratiun withouo overcrowding. VV itii 

 ue regard to the liabit of each, and by 

 judic.ou.siy placing the different kinds^ 

 IS iitti'U [>()ssil)le w include a very great 

 iiuiiihtT Hi a i omparatively small spaw, and 

 \i ilir 4-ui<)ui.s are selected with care many 



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pots in liie garilen will have their interest 



increased 



t lic^t' roses. 



i liH! hiri'i; I uses ntav 



;j;r<)Wii 



in 



tl 



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nuiumuiu Npace m piiiar <m |tyratiMl Im i-, 

 and in this rnaruHT a<lnut ol utMu^ wsnl \n 

 lierl)aceous Ixudt'is m- ;irn<ing hardy shiiii).s. 



In pillar toiiu tlie only riKjuisite necessary 

 s a ;j,ooi| stout poli' ol larch or oak ; whil(^ 



|)vi amids ai o tiNulil v er*;cte<l with tlu'et^ 

 pnhvs, extcndi'd )lt t. t** Ht t . apart at the 

 h;is»\ and havin;^ llie pouitK meeting to- 

 gether to lor Ml an a jiex. The hitter m 

 tt?m admits of ea<-h poU* < ai rying a |>Uint, 

 so that *'very pyratni<l will eiir iy thre*^dis- 

 tin<t \;irieties when neresxnry, ;in<l il these 

 ri'prtssent *'arlv ;ind lale \;nieiie.-> llie maxi- 

 mum season ol hhxun is olitaiiuHl. 



When ^rown in single pillar form, <'limh- 



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ui ^ T ose*^ re(pM re close a t ten t on , par t icu- 

 hirly uitli regard to prunin;j:, tor it neg- 

 hM te<l in this respe<t th<^y soon become 

 over-grown, an<l their l>i\iuty is marred. 

 As soon us they pass out of tlow*'r tlie old 

 wood sliould i»e cut out a.s far as tins 

 Ih> <lispenstHl with. r*^taining tlie best- 

 placetl shoots for oivering tlie top of the 

 I>ole ami tying in all tlie -eurrent s<'ason's 

 shoots. It will lie ohvions that in tying 

 rosi\s we should av()i<l any suspicion of 

 lumpine.vs. and always have an eye to a 

 lt:ght etFect , ami to thi« end I alwiys favour 

 leaving a foot or two free at the points, 

 as this entin^ly (h^stroys all suspicion of 

 stiffness or iirnlue lorniality when in flower. 



Among rost\s siiitalile. lor pillars an<l 

 pyramids there aro Anls Pillar, a varietv 

 having large, full flowers of a deep velvet 

 crimson .(.lour. Ards Rover, <lark <rini- 

 son shelldike petals, and Ard's Rambler, 

 having largi^ Howers of orange-tTimson! 

 with a paler sfuule at the base of the petals. 

 Bardou Job is one of the largest of semi- 

 <louble roses, of a glorious erimson colour, 

 and is an old, well-known variety. Ameri 

 can Pillar, Introduced four years ago, is 

 one of the finest roses for garden decora- 

 tion; the single flowers are large, of a fine 

 rose-pink tint, that ^becomes paler at the 

 base, and the trusses of flower are full, 

 like huge bouquets. Billard et Barre is 

 golden-yellow in bud, paler when expanded. 

 Buttercup, deep yellow in bud, lemon when 

 open, is not a vigorous grower, but a dis- 

 tinct and attractive flower. Cramoisie 

 Superieure is an old favourite China rose, 

 velvet crimson in colour, and one that 

 flowers in great abundance; the climbing 

 form is most suitable for pillars. Crimson 

 Rambler, rich bright crimson, in dense 

 sprays, must be lightly trained, or is liable 

 to mddew. Goldfinch has large flowers, 

 orange-yellow in bud, but almost white 

 when open. Gruss an Teplitz, scarlet crim- 

 son, with dark foliage, is a sterling variety 

 for autumn. Helene, early flowering, pro 

 dxices immense sprays of rose-pink flowers. 

 Mdme. Berard has full flowers of a curious 



shade of yellow, much in the wav of Gloire 

 ae Dijon. 



Mrs. F. W. Flight bears immense trusses 

 of semi-double flowers, blush-pink in 



with the accompaniment of dark foliage. 

 I'ausendschon, one of the beist of recent ad- 

 <litions to climbing roses, has large flowers, 

 bright satin pink, in large heads, and car- 

 ried on stitf stems. lea Rambler is a 

 curious mixture of yellow, salmon, and 

 pink; flowers Mmall, in moderate trusses; 

 the foliage is pale green and glossy. Thalia 

 has rather small flowers, almost pure 

 white, and flowers continuously all the 

 summer and autumn. W. Allen Richardson, 

 <leep orange-yellow in centre, paler at 

 i^flges of petals, is the finest rose of this 

 colotir and extremely floriferous. 



Thomas Smith. 

 Coombe Court Gardens. 



THE COTTAGE GARDEN. 



''Yes, there is holy pleasure in thine eye! 

 The lovely cottage in the guardian nook 

 Hath stirred thee deeply; with its own dear 

 brook, 



Its own small pasture, almost its own sky! 

 But covet not the Abode; forbear to sigh, 

 As many do, repining while they look — 

 Intruders — who would tear from Nature's 

 book 



This precious leaf, with harsh impiety. 

 Think what the Home must be, if it were 

 thine ; 



Even thine, though few thy wants ! Roof, 

 window, door, 



The very flowers are sacred to the Poor; 

 The roses to the porch which they entwine. 

 Yea, all that now enchants thee, from the 

 day 



On which it should be touched, would melt 



away. 



Wordsworth. 



The cottage garden has become a pro- 

 verb. The luxuriance with which plants 

 grow, the way in which every inch of space 

 is utilised, and the brilliance of the displays 

 often obtained, are all quoted against those 

 of us who have larger gardens, as if the 

 standard attained in cottage gardens were 

 something to ibe aimed at, but not likely 

 to be reached. They are one of the charac- 

 teristic features of the English wayside and 

 almost pecidiar to it, and to anyone travel- 

 ling through the country at a sufficiently 

 moderate pace, they constitute by no means 

 one of its least attractive features if he 

 has an eye for flowers, or even for natural 

 beauty of any sort. 



The praise bestowed upon cottage gar- 

 dens IS certainly well deserved, though any- 

 one going frequently along the same road 

 trom spring to antumn will notice that 

 their owners have not solved the problem 



mixed 



ing to the soil all refuse that will decav 

 within a reasonable tLme, besides import- 

 fair quantity of manure from out- 



ing 



a 



side, the soil tends to become more ami 

 more fertile owing to the incomings exceed- 

 ing the outgoings, as is shown by compar- 

 ing the level of the soil with tliat of the 

 paths. 



One of the secrets of the success of the 

 cottage garden is the same as that of the 

 'Mittle farm well tilled." Everything 

 daily under the owner's eye during the 

 main part of the gardening season, and the 

 claims of the garden are, as a rule, no 

 greater than he is able to satisfy, so that 

 everything gets done just at the right time. 

 Seeds and cuttings are put in " just be- 

 tween too early and too late." The ground 



shut in by w^alLs 



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being 



or 

 the 



high 



rarely 



hedges, the soil works well m the early 

 spring, often before that in many larger 

 gardens, and, given an early Easter for 

 making a start, the cottager is always 

 ready to take advantage of it. 



Another reason why the fliower garden is 

 so often all successes and no failures, to 

 judge from appearances, is that the cot- 

 tager, as a rule, only growls those things 

 which will do really well with him without 

 an undue amount of coddling. There is a 

 certain element of the survival of the fittest 

 in this kind of gardening, for a plant that 

 will not quickly get established is liable to 

 be smothered and never seen again. Pro- 

 bably he does not know, though it might 

 be regarded truism, that there is no 



garden so unfavourably situated but what 

 some things will grow well in it, but he 

 acts upon it, and the things that flourish 

 with him are plants that, in most cases, 

 have similarly flourished in his soil, or in 

 that of his neighbours, for a generation or 

 more. There is a good deal to be said for 

 the system of confining one's attention to 

 those subjects for which our s-oil and comli- 

 tions are best suited, without w^asting tini*^ 

 in pampering and petting plants that, at 

 the best, will only be a modified success, 

 but it is a counsel of perfection only, for 

 we all have our favourites, and too often 

 they are plants which do not particularly 

 like what we have to offer them. 



In conclusion, the cottage garden at 

 least teaches us that great expense is not 

 necessary for deriving much pleasure from 

 our gardens. It is the professional flower 

 show, with all its deceptions, that makt^s 

 Us run into so much wasteful expense, 

 which is too often followed by disappoint- 



f^^oured ^^*^nuL J inx:ii iiitve done a 

 garden which compels one's attention in 

 June heing often lacking in colour in July, 

 fetill, there are certain elements in the way 

 the cottager manages his garden which are 

 not unworthy of our consideration. 

 ■ u "/ '^f attractive features is the way 

 'ff vegetable quarters are set 



off with flowers. Alongside the paths there 

 are generally to be found large clumps of 

 old-fashioned flowers, which grow with the 

 greatest luxuriance on account of the an- 

 nual manuring of the adjacent vegetable 

 ground, and the abundance of sun and air 



The 



isolated 



are not only masses of ^^^^^^ 



goat's rue, columbines, or white'lili'es along 

 the margin of the onion bed— to the im- 

 provement of the latter without spoihng 

 the effect of the former— but sometimes 



tage gardener rarely visits more than one 

 show a year, and that the local one, where 

 he sees the exhibits of other people like him- 

 self, with displays from the fcig gardens, 

 which he is content to admire without envy 



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or emulation. When a cottager acquires 

 a plant from somewhere it is soon seen 

 many of the gardens of the neighbourhood 

 so ready is he to share with his neighbours- 

 The ubiquity of a comparatively recent in- 

 troduction like Doronicum plantagineum 

 Harpur Orewe is a case in point. It brings 

 to mind a passage from '*The Garden that 

 I Love," where the Poet Laureate says: 

 A flower border thus becomes -a li^^^r 



ZIZ diary of your wanderings, your 



sweet Williams, vi^ite, your friendships, a perpetual remi- 

 niscence of the generosity of the rich, of tlie 



graciousness of the poor." 



Alger Petts 



hed 



colour ih-^i lo.^ o 1 'r-'^" !'"'^ x^'^' nc^i^ned to cabbages and potatoes 



r4 oLflcn 4 '^t^trussl^o^ ^" perfection^ Roses, too, there are in all sortfof odd 

 i. \J "A';. t"isse« of great size, and corners, sorts that were more commn^ . 



cut out of 



velW TuCa HchY '-^^ ^^'^ ^^'^ generation ago than to^layT and th;;;:;7so: 

 ^.V^I\J\^'yi^\^ ^'^^ ™^Pond to the eenerous treatment tW 



rs, sorts that were more common a 



comes in huge sprays, and is very effective 



receive. 



to the generous treatment they 



"Carnations, Picotees, and Pinks' 



tell you plainly how to grow these favourn^ 

 flowers to perfection. The work is freely jn"^ 

 trated with plates of loading varieties, and ; 

 planatx)ry diagrams. Price 2s. 6d. net by po?*' " 

 box, &. lOd., from W. H. and L. ColUngndge* 

 148 and 149, AM«rsg>ate Street, London. 



