THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 13, 1858. 221 
thoughts in a garden have become the happy turning- 
points in a man’s career. 
FORMATION OF A ROSERY. 
I have seen this done in many ways, and perhaps 
equally effectual as a whole; but there could hardly 
be a more simple, and more pleasure-communicating 
mode, than that adopted at Tingirth. A small circular 
bed forms the centre ; and circular gravel paths, 
about two feet and a half wide, with box edgings and 
circular beds between them, of from four to five feet 
in width, are supplied with standard and dwarf Roses. 
These may be divided by cross walks, according to 
taste ; and, if climbing Roses were also intended to be 
a feature, the walks might be made wider, and crossed 
at intervals with arches. The walks being gravel, and 
the beds of an uniform narrow width,—at most, not ex¬ 
ceeding five feet,—ladies could have no difficulty in 
getting to, and examining, all their Roses, at all times, 
unless when actually raining. The simple circular 
outline carries the eye and the foot pleasantly along, 
in examining bed after bed. I have noticed, that 
| when people carelessly saunter over a road or lawn, 
the feet almost instinctively form curves in their 
progress. A person reading, or blindfolded, will 
! hardly ever take a straight course. Hence, partly, 
the pleasure with which most minds contemplate 
curved lines. When a suburban gardener honours 
me by asking what shape his single flower clump 
should be, I almost invariably recommend a circle or 
an oval, to the exclusion of the whole paraphernalia of 
gimcracks and stars and garters. 
A mode of arranging a large circle for climbing 
Roses, round a fountain and rough rockwork, in front 
of the houses in the kitchen garden, was also very 
effective, though artistic and artificial in appearance. 
The Roses are trained to a trellis,—say, to a height of 
four feet,—the trellis being bounded by a stout iron 
rail. On this rail, all the way round, are erected, by 
means of iron rods, equilateral triangles, or nearly so, 
—the high point of the triangle being some six or 
seven feet or more above the rail. From the point of 
the triangle another rod is subtended to the rail, 
which thus cuts each triangle into two right-angled 
ones. Up this middle rod, and the two side hy- 
pothenuse lines, the Roses mount, and formed last 
week perfect clusters of Roses. All of these were 
white: a good many the delightfully scented Ruga. 
Mr. Manning proposed, and planted, and budded, 
darker ones for variety; but the ladies objected to 
any but the white, and no doubt they had good 
reasons for doing so. The circular outline, and the 
points of the triangles, with the regular sloping lines 
of masses of Roses, had a fine effect. In many posi¬ 
tions, stout rods, elevated as high, or higher than the 
points of the triangles, and connected with each other 
by festooned chains, would have been quite as pleas¬ 
ing, as the curve would then come in for its attrac¬ 
tions : but the idea of the artistic and the artificial 
would not be so prominent. 
EARLY FRUITING YOUNG VINES. 
I have frequently done this from necessity, but 
i never without greatly repenting it. The system with 
! vineries is penny wise and pound foolish. It in¬ 
variably cripples the Vine for after years. I once 
saw strong Vines planted, cut down to the sill, and 
i form fine, well-ripened rods the first year. They 
seemed so strong and healthy, that the gardener 
thought himself justified in taking a good crop the 
next season. The Vines never did much good after¬ 
wards. Mr. Manning planted Vines in a new house, 
three years ago, planting both at the front and at the 
back of the house,—the former to be trained up the 
usual way, the latter to be trained down. I noticed 
little difference between them, though, if anything,, j 
those coming down the glass might be the shortest i 
jointed. On each of these Vines, in the third year, 
were only a few bunches,—but then they would be > 
bunches; and the rods, with fine foliage, were like 
walking-sticks, and with fine, round, prominent buds i 
at the axils of the leaves. A lateral was left at each 
bud, stopped at the first joint. From the size of the 
foliage, little more would have found room. This' 
wise parsimony, as to cropping at first, will tell in the i. 
Vine’s favour ever afterwards. R. Fish. 
PEARS IN SUMMER. 
Famous as Britain is for fruits in general, still there , 
are ever prevailing most unsatisfactory results, in one 1 
quarter or another. But we are allowed, and allow 
ourselves, to be«a nation of grumblers. They say 
that the climate is at fault, and who shall dispute it ? 
Why all this fuss about orchard houses ? and not only 
fuss, but considerable expense, if such be not the case : 
this surely cannot be all whim. The builders of these 
orchard houses, however, must please to remember, 
that such will have both expense and inconvenience 
in their train, albeit so much talk of their simplicity 
and, of course, economy. I would be the first to re¬ 
commend orchard houses, where a honest-hearted, 
sensible, and fair-play consideration of what they are, 
and what labour they occasion, was entertained: the 
first to condemn them when they are jauntily adopted, 
and without a far-seeing eye. In squeezing an 
Orange impulsively, you are in danger of losing the 
precious juice stored up in some other cranny ; 
whereas, by an uniform squeeze, and a sensible and 
considerate one, you may better accomplish the real 
desire of your heart. Our indoor fruits in Britain are 
sufficient testimony as to the climate matter indoors : 
for where are such Grapes, Pines, Peaches, Nectarines, 
and I may even add Melons, to be found,—taking the 
best qualities that are recognized in fruits, of pulp, 
juiciness, freshness, and exquisite flavour ? 
These things admitted as facts, we have a just right, 
I conceive, to say, that we are less favoured overhead 
than some of our more fortunate neighbours, on the 
other side of the water, who live a little nearer the 
sun; and it behoves us, with that kind of ready 
adaptation to difficulties for which John Bull is j 
noted, to remedy this natural deficiency by extra I 
appliances. 
Pears are at once one of the most useful and most 
bothering of our fruits. That they are very useful, 
the winter dessert-table bears witness. For nine ; 
months, indeed, we may have Pears on our table ; 
and, with all our grumbling, we may have good ones 
for half-a-year, without rummaging all the names in 
the catalogue. 
One of the worst faults of Pears, in a trained state, 
is to produce an enormous amount of breastwood: 
and when we look at the pretty little, neat, and well- 
turned natural spurs, which seem to have good Pears 
written on their frontispiece, we naturally lament 
that those bothering breast-shoots had not been of their 
character. Moreover, we hear so much about what 
science can effect, that we are ever ready to think, 
that there must be some culture which will heal these 
disasters. The fault here is, beyond all doubt, trace¬ 
able to the soil they are planted in; it is too good, too 
open and free,—of which more in the sequel. It be¬ 
comes necessary to remove totally a considerable j 
portion of this young and succulent spray, especially 
that which springs from the main shoots, and un- ! 
attached to any spur or spurs; unless there be any 
