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proverb of " to spare the rod is to spoil the child " must be reversed: 

 " Spare the knife and improve your ' child.' " 



The stronger-growing climbing Tea Roses, such as ' Reve d'Or,' 

 'Bouquet d'Or,' ' Gloire de Dijon,' climbing ' Perle des Jardins,' 

 ' Billard et Barre,' and many others may be most usefully employed in 

 making Rose- pillars by training them round three stakes driven into the 

 ground Gipsy- tent fashion ; in a couple of years they will completely 

 hide the stakes and look like pyramids of Roses rising out of the earth. 



