THE GARDENERS* MAGAZINE. 
We have them planted at the back of 
an herbaceous border. Tliey were origin¬ 
ally trained up some four-feet iron rail¬ 
ings, but as the hedge grew taller 
strands of galvanize<l wire were stretched 
through iron uprights inserted between the 
railings. The plants are now about 
twelve fe€‘t high, and they make an effi¬ 
cient and most sweet screen. We planted 
several varieties, but find that Meg Merri- 
lees, Amy Rohsart, Anne of Gierstein, and 
Jeanie Deans have proved the strongest. 
They tfirow up immense rods from the bot¬ 
tom every summer. These must be care¬ 
fully laid in, and some of the old wood 
cut out as soon after flowering as possible. 
No other pruning is required. If this is 
attended to every year the screen will be 
covered with blossoms, and the plants will 
*ot lK*come thin and leggy. 
your “ armour ” when you are preparing to 
tackle the hybrid sweet briars. I must 
plead guilty to leaving these to the gar¬ 
dener’s tender mercies, and he usually 
bears some honourable scars on face and 
hands for some days after his annual work 
among them. 
Zephyrine Drouhin bears its deep rose- 
pink flowers freely from early summer Idl 
late autumn. No rose has a sweeter scent. 
And roses for hedges should be fragrant, or 
a great part of their charm is lacking. 
For this reason, among many others, the 
Rugosa roses make ideal hedges. These 
roses are very hardy, and are not so par¬ 
ticular as to soil or situation as are most 
roses; they will do well when pruned hard 
or when merely thinned, and their young 
shoots trained down, as was recommended 
for the Penzance briars; they require no 
quite first class, i nave even noticed our 
old retriever, who has a partiality for wall 
plums and ripe pears, sampling the Rugosa 
berries by way of variety. 
The little double Scotch roses make a 
capital dwarf hedge, thick and brown and 
bushy through the winter, covering them¬ 
selves with their tiny leaves in spring, and 
in May breaking forth into innumerable 
buds of pink and white, which have a most 
delicate fragrance, suggestive to me of 
fresh rose-water, a very “gentle” smell, 
as a friend of mine describes it. rnfor- 
tunately the blossoms are easily spoilt by 
wet weather, but in a fine May, such as 
that of 1912, there is no prettier garden 
sight than the little Scotch briars in blos¬ 
som. They are particularly useful for a dry 
si«tuation. There is a double yellow, which 
seems rarer, and is certainly not so easy to 
FRUITING BRANCH OF BERBERIS WILSONiE. 
A handsome Chinese shrub, elegant in growth, and bearing coral-red fruits. Introduced by Messrs J Veibch and Sons. 
(See page 28.) 
1 am inclined to think they do better 
grown in this way than as bushes, though 
here I am at issue with Mr. Herbert Moly- 
neux, who, some two years since, advis^ 
us to plant a hedge of the hybrid Bourbon, 
Zephyrine Drouhin. These are arranged 
in a double row, and have made already 
a thick hedge. At present it is about three 
feet high, but we hope it will soon reach 
the height of six feet, which it has done 
in Mr. Molyneux’s garden. Everyone who 
comes into the garden notices it—the 
foliage is so dense and beautiful. In the 
springtime the leaves show innumerable 
shades of glaucous blue, bronze, and cherry- 
pink, and they are retained very long into 
the winter. The stems are thornless, 
which, to those who prune their own roses, 
is a great joy. You may leave your gloves 
behind when yon go to prune or train 
Zephyrine Drouhin, but must put on all 
stakes, as their growths are sufficiently 
upright and stout fo withstand all winds 
and weather without support; their foliage 
is dark green, thick and abundant in sum¬ 
mer, and changes to the loveliest of soft 
yellows and russet browns in autumn. The 
flowers, which come very early, and in 
many of the varieties are produced 
throughout the summer, are delightfully 
fragrant. They are not “fast of their 
smell,” as Bacon says the crimson roses 
are, but scent the air around them, so that 
it is very pleasant to have a Rugosa hedge 
rilnning up to a frequented pathway, and 
when the flowers have faded they are fol- 
loAved by large and brilliant red heps, which 
light up the garden in autumn, as long 
as the birds can resist their attractions; 
but from the early attention the thrushes 
and blackbirds pay to them I fancy their 
flavour, from a bird’s point of view, must be 
grow. The variety Stanwell Perpetual 
well deserves its name. It begins to bloom 
in May, and at the end of December some 
of its sweet-scented pale blush flower 
were still to be found. It is not so compac 
a grower as the summer-flowering varieties. 
In writing on rose hedges Mr. 
has given an alluring picture of 
of Rosa altaica (R. spinossima grandiflora;. 
The loveliness of its tender green, 
arching sprays of large single crea } 
flowers, has a charm which cannot ' 
yeyed in words, but which makes a ® 
impression, albeit its actual beauty m 
garden, is short-lived. Rosa altaica 
quires very little pruning, and can be P 
pagated from suckers. It bears ^ . 
flowers in lat« summer, but the leaves, 
turning a dull russet-brown, fail 
early, and the shrivelled brown-blacK 
ries hanging alone on the leafless s 
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