December 20, 1913. 
THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 
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ROSES FOR GARDEN 
DECORATION* 
(Continued from 927.) 
Lifting: and Replanting:. 
Roses should be lifted and replanted at 
least once every fifth year, and for several 
reasons, perhaps the most important being 
that it enables the rose quartere to be re¬ 
made and a further supply of the necessary 
rose food in the shap^ of manure and fresh 
loam dug into the beds. It is impossible to 
do this properly unle^ the plants are lifted. 
Another reason: by lifting and root pruning 
we encourage fibrous root growth. It is 
generally known that a mass of fibrous roots 
convey more food to a plant than a few 
strong coarse roots, owing to the fact that 
roots feed only through their root hairs, 
which are necessarily far more plentiful on a 
large number of fibrous roots than on a few 
coarse ones. It is obvious, therefore, that 
we should strive for fibrous roots, and the 
best way to obtain them is to lift and root 
prune. By so doing I am confident you will 
add strength and many year's to the life of 
the rose plants. Tliese remarks on lifting 
and replanting do not apply to climbing 
roses, which are best left undisturbed. 
Other Wa.ys in which the Rose 
Ma.y be Grown. 
As isolated specimens, on the lawn or even 
in the foreground of a shrubbery, some of 
the stronger growing sorts are highly attrac¬ 
tive. I would mention Gruss an Teplitz; 
the rugosa, Conrad F. Myer, Macrantha 
(charming single pure white), Mrs. Stewart 
Clark, Bardou Job, Beaute de Lyon, Zephy- 
rine Drouhin, Maharajah, Hon, Ina Bingham, 
Commandant Jules Gravereaux, and Juliet. 
All these varieties also look extremely well 
when planted in large groups, say fifteen 
feet across, and make a mass of colour not 
easily forgotten. The pruning of plants 
grown in the way suggested will be entirely 
different (after the first year) to that of bed¬ 
ding roses. Here you let them grow much 
as they please, just thinning out where 
necessary and shortening back the unripe 
tips of the shoots. A very fine feature may 
be made in a garden by pillar roses, that is, 
roses trained up either single posts or tri¬ 
pods. Roses grown in this manner and pro¬ 
perly placed help to break up the level of a 
rose garden, are fine subjects for the back 
of herbaceous borders, and may be used with 
advantage in many parts of the pleasure 
grounds. Tlie stronger growing roses-^f 
which my choice for this purpose includes 
American Pillar, Excelsa, Blush Rambler, 
Dorothy Perkins, Carmine Pillar, Jersey 
Ben-uty, Alberic Barbier, Hiawatha, Gar¬ 
denia, Helene, Evangeline, and Mhite 
Dorothy—should have pillars at least fOft. 
high for them to ramble over, whue 
if shorter pillars are used, say, posts 6ft. m 
height, the following may be considered the 
best twelve ; Lady Waterlow, Madame Pierre 
Cochet, Zephyrine Drouhin, Florence Has- 
well Veitch (one of the newer roses, brilliant 
scarlet colour and very fragrant), Papillon, 
Trier, Wallflower, Madame Alfred Carriere, 
Ards Rover, Longworth Rambler, Lucy Ber¬ 
tram Sweet Briar, and Gruss an Teplitz. 
Every garden should possess at least a few 
standard weeping roses. Very beautiful are 
many of the Wichuraiana roses when worked 
on high standards, with their long 
growths drooping to the ground and covered 
'W'ith thousands of blossoms. Talking of 
standard roses, I would remind you when 
ordering this class of rose of the im^rtance 
of ordering varieties which do well when 
grown as such. Some varieties will not make 
standards, and some are better as standards 
than as dwarfs. One such I think is M hit 
Haman Cochet, another is William Shean. 
Both of these when grown as dwarfs droop 
their flowers so much that unless you Hit 
the blooms up you cannot see them, and 
owing to this fault after a storm they are 
so badly splashed that they are s^ilt. Others 
that make really good standards are 
Ashtown, Madame Jean Dupuy, Frau Earl 
Druschki, Gustave Grunerwald, Hugh incK 
son, General McArthur, Caroline Te.dout, 
Grace Darling, Ha Tosca, Lad,v Hillingdon. 
Madame Abel Chatenay, Mrs. Foley Hobbs, 
Mrs. Sharmau Crawford, Marie van Iloutte, 
and J. B. Clark, and there are, of vi>urM*. 
many others. 
I have not touched u])on roees for hedges, 
house decoration, or vet ros<*s for walls and 
pergolas, but I sliou'ld like to advise you, 
with regard to pergolas, to \k careful where 
you build them. Nothing, to my mind, looks 
more out of place than a ])ergola ” starting 
from nowhere and leading to nowhere.” If 
oil can understand me, a ])ergola should 
ave a definite starting point, and lead to 
some other definite featui'e of the garden. 
If your garden is too small to arrange this 
be content with arches, which are infinitely 
more in keeping with a small garden. 
Frae:>*ance. 
The remark is often made that “our newer 
roses are lacking in fragrance,” and to hack 
Of the old varieti*'* tlu -w.^ tost I know are 
/>*phvnue Drtmhin, I*a Fraii«-. Soi.ateur 
Vai-M.\ Mrs. J. l*aing. 1 harlw licfobvre, 
Horace Verned. and Marie Baumann, and. of 
couri*e, the old Cabbage 4.r l*roven<>e 
and the old wmmon S\se-<’t Briar, hut even 
with the Sw«‘et Briar> \vi li.ivi our mt>dern 
development in the lVuiuin<>(' Briar. many of 
which aro quite as *<w<'et a the t>ld-f.T*biontHi 
variety, 
iTo b. caiitinued.) 
WELL HEADS IN GARDENS. 
I'requt'utlv. by fon^ oi oirrum^tanc.a 
well bapiH'iiH to’ b^ -ituat«^ either in olo-t* 
proximity to a d>«^ llitighouM*. or in a oon- 
spicuoiu- l>»»>ition in the garden, and in the ^ 
ca?^. > it b de irable that a menu^ protiv- 
tion Ik* designiHi witl* a view to artistic eff*H't 
as well as efficiency. IlliiHtration of elalKi- 
rate well-heads in stoiu* have appear*d in 
an ARTI.<TIC WELL-HEAD. 
Designed by Messrs. Boulton and Paul, Norwich. 
this opinion our good friend Iran Karl 
•uschki IS made the scapegoat M ell, how- 
Er much Druschki errs in this respei't, 1 
,uld remind you that she is no longer a 
w rose, but a “ thirt^n-year-old. and if 
e sins by lacking scent, so. too, do the old 
lite roses Merveille de Lyon and Mar- 
ioness of Londonderry, and Druschki is a 
ig way in advance of these older varieties 
fverv other way. I think there is a gW 
aTof nonsense talked about this matter, 
r can anyone tell me a sweeter rose than 
inxb Dickson introduced in 19(M; ? Then, 
w about Rayon d*0r. introdu^d in 1910; 
1 Alice Stanley, in 19(»: 
lix Faure 1902; Beaute de Lyon, 1910, 
1 in/\Ti3 1905 ■ Greneral McArthur. 190a; 
70 ca, 1907; Chateau de Clos ’^ug^t, 
fvj • 'nis Maiesty, 1909; Edward Mawley, 
n’. ?nd gS Dickson, 1912 talang a 
I at hapkazarl ? I cannot help thmkmg 
It the^ and many othere, all intr^riced 
tinir the last ten years, are equal at least 
“fragrancilo the Ut of the old varieties. 
the pages of The G.\rdener8 Magazine, and 
these are, of course, the correct thing where 
the well is in a formal garden. Equally 
artistic, although totally different in charac¬ 
ter, is the subject of our present illustration, 
reproduced from a drawing of a well-head, 
cleverly designed by Me^^srs. Boulton and 
Paul, Lim., Norwich. The circular guard of 
brickwork is surrounded by stone-paving, and 
the whole covered by a heather-thatched 
roof, which is supported by stout oak post*. 
The material, design, and construction are 
all appropriate to the surroundings, and, con- 
sequentlv, the well becomes a fine feature in 
the garden scheme, instead of—as it might 
have been—an eyesore. 
Christmas Holidays.— The pub¬ 
lishers wish to inform readers that, owing to 
the usual day of publication clashing with 
the Holidavs, next week’s Gardeners’ 
Magazine will be on sale Wednesday. Decern^ 
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