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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[July, 
KOSES FOR HEDGES, Etc. 
f ERMIT me to back up Mr. Tillery’s admirable remarks upon tbe beauty and 
usefulness of sucli cliarming boundary lines where room can be found for 
f them. Not that Mr. Tillery’s receipts for beauty need to be endorsed by 
me ; his authority is good and sufficient in all matters of culture and taste. 
But I have a great love for such hedges, though I have not yet been able to in¬ 
troduce them here, for it happens that our forte lies in archways, not hedge ways ; 
but I have seen some elsewhere, and they are most ornamental and useful. 
The first I ever saw was at Shrubland Park, near Ipswich. The late Mr. 
Beaton was walking round with me, full of his botanical and cultural quips and 
cranks, and suddenly we came upon a semicircular Rose hedge, forming the back of 
a sunk Verbena garden on grass. It was formed wholly of the rose Gloire de 
Rosomene; from top to bottom it glowed with large semi-double roses, only 
variegated with the clean bright green leaves, and its elegant thin buds, in all 
stages, from mere narrow lines to bursting flowers. They were set in a frame 
of cloudless sunlight, and the rose hedge seemed positively illuminated. It was 
perfectly dazzling in its brightness. Beaton, who was eagle-eyed to note effects, 
gave one of his most significant smiles, as he saw my pencil and book instantly 
at work. Yes, he remarked, “ Is it not a glory ? ” 
I have never seen this Rose so gloriously bright since, nor anything more 
striking in the way of hedges. I have tried it as a background in ribbon-garden¬ 
ing with but indifferent success. But there is no question that an immense deal 
could be done with Rose hedges, both as ornamental and useful objects. The 
first is too obvious to need much further remark; but it might be worth while 
on gentlemen’s estates, and especially in regard to inside boundary lines or fences 
to plantations and shrubberies, to intermix the Noisette, Ayrshire, or Boursault, 
or such free-growing good roses as the Banksian, Gloire de Dijon, Marechal Niel, 
Climbing Devoniensis, Lamarque, Celine Forestier, &c., among White-thorns, 
Sweet-briers, &c., that are used for hedge plants. Occasionally, round home 
woods, the fences are left wide and rough for game. What cover could be better 
or safer for the birds than large tangled masses of roses. The effect from a 
distance would be magnificent in the extreme, while near at hand their beauty and 
sweetness would bear the closest inspection. And where gardens, as is often the 
case, are bounded by woods, why not furnish the debateable ground between the 
two with tangled irregular groups, or at least wide fences, of roses ? Let the 
queen of flowers lay its hand upon both garden and woody wilderness, and bind 
them together with a climbing wreath or tie of roses. They might graduate 
in quality and height by degrees as they receded from the garden, until tall 
rampant Ayrshires and Sweet-briers grasped and clothed the trees of the forest. 
Such masses of Roses would display an exuberance of floral wealth, and bring in 
such a revenue of sweetness, as has never yet been reaped from fragrant Roses. 
