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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ October, 
pipings the smaller shoots, and such as were emitted from the higher joints of the 
stem, and were consequently difficult to be brought down for layering; and I have 
been increasingly impressed by recurring experience that whilst layered plants 
constantly produce a large crop of grass, more or less thickly clustered at the base 
of the plant, pipings have an increasing tendency to produce pipings, throwing 
out plant-shoots, in contradistinction to the flowering-shoots of the layer, even to 
the uppermost joint of the flowering-stem ; whilst whereas all pipings with me 
have invariably been from ten to twenty days behind the period of bloom of the 
same variety from layers, a piping obtained late in the season is yet more 
retarded in its period of bloom, so that from weakly plants I have known the 
flowering period thrown forward so far even as late September and early October. 
“ It occurs to me that if advantage were taken of this habit, the fine exhibition 
varieties might be induced to flower—of course, in a suitable house—in mid¬ 
winter or early spring, and thus supersede the, in the majority of cases, poor, 
flimsy, washy things which are sent out as perpetual bloomers. What is your 
experience on this point ?” 
Our experience is analogous to that of our correspondent, but though we have 
observed the habit described, our desire has been—so much do we love a full 
display of these flowers in the high summer-time, their natural period—to 
counteract, not to foster, the departures our friend refers to. But to others, 
governed by a desire to prolong the period of bloom, a prosecution of the 
experiment may be interesting, and would probably be profitable.—E. S. D. 
PILLAE AND TEELLIS EOSES. 
obtaining and pi'esenting a photographic record of the subjoined beautiful 
ujS specimen of a climbing Pillar Trellis Rose, good service has been done to rose- 
f growing. The introduction of such beautiful subjects into the now almost 
always too formal rose-garden will be heartily welcomed. To form such 
specimens, however, varieties of Roses which have the following qualifications 
are needed:— 
1. Varieties with long flexible shoots, which can be easily twined and tied in 
to the wire-forms, without leaving ugly out-sticking elbows. 
2. Hardy varieties, of which the long-autumn grown shoots are not likely to 
be injured by the winter frosts. 
3. Very free and continuous bloomers, more especially good autumnal flowerers. 
The list of kinds containing, more or less, all these peculiarities is not long. 
The best are the Teas of the Gloire de Dijon race, beginning with the type:— 
Gloire de Dijon, rich yellow, shaded with salmon ; Bouquet d’Or, almost 
identical in colour, but with a rather freer-flowering habit; Madame Berard, 
rich, light salmon shaded, a grand free fine bold flower ; Belle Lyonnaise, 
deep lemon, somewhat shy when young, but in growth just suited for this culture ; 
Climbing Devoniensis, white tinted lemon ; should have the warmest, most 
sheltered nook, as the unripened wood is apt to be injured by the winter frosts ; 
