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Again, the arches at the crossings of walks may be appropriately covered 
with these facile plants, and they are equally well adapted for trailing over 
arcades, arbours, and rustic temples. 
For the above purposes, the Ayrshire, Evergreen, and Multiflora Boses are the 
best. They grow vigorously when well fed, often making shoots 10 ft. or 12 ft. 
long in one season. They are very hardy, and when fairly established flower most 
abundantly. For low fences, the Hybrid China, Hybrid Bourbon, and strongest- 
growing Hybrid Perpetuals may be used ; and if a wall with a south aspect re¬ 
quires to be covered, whether high or low, some few of the Noisette, Tea-scented, 
and Banksian Roses are the very best kinds that can be planted. 
The general treatment of Climbing Roses is so similar to that described in our 
last chapter (Pillar Roses) that we need not repeat it here. Only in the case of 
fences is it necessary to nail the principal shoots to the’fence immediately after 
pruning. In windy situations, or where the growth has been very vigorous, 
during summer, it may'be well to stick in a nail, here and there, during and 
after the season of flowering. 
The Banksian Rose alone requires special treatment. It is common to hear 
of this Rose growing freely, but floweringly sparingly. This is usually due to the 
system of pruning. Very little pruning is necessary here. The gross shoots 
should be stopped in the growing season, and the thin wiry shoots should be removed 
early in the spring. The aim should be to obtain and preserve a goodly number of 
moderate-sized well-ripened shoots, for it is such, and such only, that produce 
flowers.— William Paul, Paul’s Nurseries , Waltham Cross , N. 
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OUVARDIAS are very extensively grown in this country for cut flowers, 
and compact, well-grown plants in 6-in. pots have few equals for decora¬ 
tive purposes. They are also most easily grown—a fact which does not 
appear to be sufficiently appreciated in England, where they generally 
have a dirty mean appearance, the few small bunches of flowers produced being 
generally decorated with mealy-bug, if there should chance to be any in the 
house. This may be in some measure accounted for by their being treated as 
stove plants in the summer, and by their being often grown on for several years 
in succession, if they do not die outright. 
The treatment given here is to shake out the plants after flowering, and to 
chop the roots into small pieces, which being planted in fine sandy soil, and 
covered with half-an-inch of sand, and then placed on a good bottom-heat, 
will each, in a short time, throw up one or more shoots. When these are about 
half-an-inch high they are potted into thumb-pots, placed in a temperature of 
from 60° to 65°, and treated the same as other newly-rooted cuttings. They 
generally get pot-bound by the end of May, when they are planted out in good 
rich ground in the full sun, and they make fine large plants by the middle of 
