PILLAR ROSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 185, 6 August 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

PILLAR ROSES.

There are many ways in which roses can be utilised for the decoration of a garden beyond the ordinary every-day method of planting dwarf roses in beds or borders. To grow some of the more vigorous climbers as pillar roses is a worthy change. All that is required is a good stout pole, about ten feet above the ground, or if a pyramid is required three poles put in at an angle, so that the tops meet. The plant should be put at the foot and the growths trained up the pole. This is a fine way to grow almost any of the Wichuriana rcses, such as Dorothy Perkins, Lady Gay, etc. A row on each side of a road or path at intervals of about six feet is a picture, especially if the colours are arranged so as to harmonise. In the centre a rose bed or, as specimens on a lawn, a well-grown pillar rose, is a fitting addition. The plants should be summer pruned, and the growth thinned out. Five or six growths are quite sufficient to allow to each pole.