. Rose gardening; how to manage roses and enjoy them . ion to grow as climbers onlysuch roses as are marked climbing in growers a rustic screen, or fence, or trellis, has to be orna-mented, or a summer-house clothed, and six-foot ornamentsare sufficient, very beautiful displays are to be obtained fromrobust Hybrid Perpetuals, Hybrid Teas, and Teas; if thelocality is a chilly or wind-swept one, these roses will dobetter than similar varieties grown as bushes or standards,pillars or half-standards. Hybrid Perpetuals I have usedthus with success are Uhich Brunner, cherry red ; Ma
. Rose gardening; how to manage roses and enjoy them . ion to grow as climbers onlysuch roses as are marked climbing in growers a rustic screen, or fence, or trellis, has to be orna-mented, or a summer-house clothed, and six-foot ornamentsare sufficient, very beautiful displays are to be obtained fromrobust Hybrid Perpetuals, Hybrid Teas, and Teas; if thelocality is a chilly or wind-swept one, these roses will dobetter than similar varieties grown as bushes or standards,pillars or half-standards. Hybrid Perpetuals I have usedthus with success are Uhich Brunner, cherry red ; MargaretDickson, blush ; and Duke of Edinburgh, vermilion ; the last CLIMBING ROSES 41 being a rose that only flowers satisfactorily when very littletouched by the knife. A mixed lot of roses to grow against supports of some kindare La France of 89, deep pink ; Baroness Rothschild, palepink ; Helen Keller, salmon-rose ; Marie van Houtte, lemonshaded with pink ; Madame Hoste, lemon ; Madame PierreCochet, apricot-orange; and Betty, rose-and-gold. It is a. A Garden of Rose Hedges and Pillars on Turf or Gravel. capital plan to alternate climbers and non-climbers againstwall or fence, training the latter as horizontally as possibleover the bare lowest stems of the tall growers. Occasionally a landlord proves fractious, and will not allowclimbers to be placed against his walls. The way to improvea house in that eventuality is to plant pillar roses a coupleof feet from it, and a yard or a couple of yards apart. Three 42 ROSE GARDENING yards will be best if rampant roses are used, and their boughsshould be tied along stout cords or wires slung from pillarto pillar. The terraced walk under a verandah may be enclosed onthe outside by a hedge of roses, or by espalier roses, or rosesagainst wooden trellis work, four feet or more high. The endsof verandahs can soon be turned into arbours by emboweringthem in climbing roses. To attempt even to give a full list of climbing roses wouldmake this
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