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bridge Roses. They grew with great rapidity, and soon covered every 
brick ; but when they bloomed in large beautiful masses, some disap¬ 
pointment was expressed at the monotony of colour. I was prepared 
for this, and told my friend that they must be decorated. A good- 
natured incredulous smile met me with “ how ? ” I called the gar¬ 
dener, for this was in July, the budding season, went with him to the 
Rose-garden, and thence took buds of some of the most beautiful of the 
dark Hybrid Perpetual Roses, not forgetting some of the bright rose- 
coloured tints, such as Colonel de Rougemont, La Reine, General 
Simpson, and some others. Our great “ horse ” was, I remember. 
General Jacqueminot. ]\Iy budding hand had not forgotten its cunning, 
for did I not consider myself at twenty as the most dexterous and rapid 
budder of Roses that ever lived and was. likely to live? So I and the 
gardener proceeded to place buds here and there in shoots favourable 
for the purpose. The day was warm and the thorns much sharper than 
they used to be forty years ago, so I have a misty idea that my friend 
Jackman the gardener put many more buds in than I did. To use the 
common phrase, nearly all the buds “ took,” i. e., lived, and many of 
them put forth fine clusters of bloom the following August and Septem¬ 
ber. I paid my annual visit to my friend in June of the next year, just 
eleven months after my budding exploit. As I approached the bridge 
I felt full of interest about my buds. What a glorious sight met my 
eye! Amid the masses of flowers of pale climbing Roses shone forth 
large clusters of the Geant, General Jacqueminot, Triomphe des Beaux 
Arts, Prince Noir, Comte Bobinsky, Louise Peyronney, Colonel de 
Rougemont, Jules Margottin, and others; the bridge was a fairy 
avenue, so charming was the effect. 
I have a full and fervent belief that ere long banks and avenues of 
decorated Roses will be in every Rose garden, and that their culture 
will be carried to an extent we at present scarcely dream of. I have 
one Rose friend who has formed his Rose-walk wdth network of iron 
wire, fastened to upright iron rods; the meshes formed by crossing the 
wire occasionally, are twelve or fifteen inches in diameter, so as effec¬ 
tually to support the shoots of the climbing Roses. This walk, in the 
course of a year or two, will be between two upright walls of “ decorated 
Roses,” and I can scarcely imagine anything in Rose culture more 
beautiful. It must be borne in mind that no arches, unless some fifteen 
feet apart, and no arched coverings must be placed over a Rose-walk or 
avenue of this description, for the finer kinds of Roses require all the 
light and air they can have. 
For pillars, banks, coverings for walks, and every fancy that can enter 
into the mind of a Rose-lover, these budded climbing Roses are adapted, 
and they will well repay the ingenuity of a clever Rose gardener ; in 
many cases superseding the use of standards, which are for a great 
portion of the year so very ugly. 
The “ how to do ” these Roses is very simple. If very rapid growth 
be required, the place in which they are to be planted should be stirred 
to a depth of two feet, some manure mixed wdth the earth, and climbing 
Roses such sorts as as Felicite, Princesse Louise, Princesse Marie, 
and spectabile (all varieties of Rosa sempervirens) should be planted 
