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roses for pillars are also the best for covering fences of from four 

 to eight feet high, and for either purpose, were it only an autumnal, 

 Madame Plantier would be an ideal variety. As it is, although 

 it flowers but once a year, it makes a more beautiful pillar than 

 almost any other rose, for its invariable profusion of bloom and 

 the pure whiteness of its flowers, its hardiness and vigorous 

 bushy habit, present all the qualities best adapted to the formation 

 of a perfect rose-pillar with the sole exception of not being per- 

 petual. In addition to Madame Plantier, the following varieties 

 are also first-rate roses for the purpose : — Ophirie, a delightful 

 coppery-orange noisette, making a pillar of extreme beauty ; 

 Madame Alfred Carriere, whose large creamy white flowers have 

 a most delicious fragrance ; Bouquet d'Or, and Reve d'Or, both 

 with the additional charm of conspicuously beautiful foliage ; 

 Climbing Captain Christy, the freest and most valuable of all 

 these "climbing" sports; Max Singer, a useful hybrid multiflora 

 with well-formed cherry-red flowers of good size continuously 

 produced in trusses of from three to seven blooms, in spite of the 

 curious fact that it was described when sent out by the raiser 

 Lacharme as " non-perpetual, and producing solitary flowers;" 

 Bardou Job, an improved Gloire des Rosomanes, with very large 

 semi-double deep crimson flowers with darker shades ; the 

 summer roses, Blairii No. 2, and Souvenir de Pierre Dupuy, and 

 Rosa macrantha, one of the most beautiful of all the single 

 roses. 



On climbing roses grown against high walls and houses, or 

 over arches of considerable span, there is not much to be said, 

 except to urge once more the employment only of varieties suited 

 to the purpose and to the position they are to fill. It is not wise, 

 for the sole reason that there is a blank wall or the bare side of 

 a house, to plant against it Marechal Niel, or the tender climb- 

 ing Devoniensis, without any regard to aspect, soil, or climate. 

 There are situations in abundance where such roses will flourish 

 in all their beauty, but to consider it necessary to attempt to 

 grow Marechal Niel in circumstances under which only an in- 

 effective apology for a plant can be produced, merely because it 

 has the reputation of being, when at its best, the most superb 

 yellow rose as well as the grandest climber in the world, is 

 absurd, and involves a waste of time and energy which, if only 

 applied to the cultivation of roses adapted to less favourable 



