. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. THE ROSARIES. 273 shoot. It is usual to place these buds either on the dog rose or on the mannetti stock. But the mannetti stock throws up suckers, which are a great abomination, as they rob the choice rose, and appropriate all the nourishment of the plant to themselves unless it is very carefully looked after, and the suckers removed by the gardener. When we have obtained a hybrid perpetual plant, we have to decide how we are to grow it. It is a common fashion to make
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. THE ROSARIES. 273 shoot. It is usual to place these buds either on the dog rose or on the mannetti stock. But the mannetti stock throws up suckers, which are a great abomination, as they rob the choice rose, and appropriate all the nourishment of the plant to themselves unless it is very carefully looked after, and the suckers removed by the gardener. When we have obtained a hybrid perpetual plant, we have to decide how we are to grow it. It is a common fashion to make a rose-tree look like a mop with the handle stuck in the ground. This form the gardener calls a standard, and he obtains it by working his rose on to a bare stick, about four feet high, of the common dog rose. This stick is rarely strong enough to sustain the weight of the head, but requires an iron staff, so that the mop head appears to come out of two sticks. At the top of this head branches of flowers arise. I have always disliked this mode of cul- ture, and the more I observe it the greater this dislike becomes. I have gradually succeeded in looking on this unnatural mode of cultivation as a horticultural mistake, and so whenever my standards die I do not replace them. I cultivate my- roses as pyramids from four to six feet high, and three or four feet "across. The appearance of the tree here figured is surpassingly fine when covered with its perfect blossoms, and I think that no one who saw my pyramids would ever think of growing standards again. One of these pyramidal perpetual rose-trees, grown on the Croquet ground (fig. 559), had at one time 144 blossoms open, and forty buds nearly ready to expand, besides which fifty more roses had either T. Fig. ssg.—Pyramid Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly r
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