AS HEDGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1940, Page 8

AS HEDGES

USE OF ROSES. Garden lovers might well make more use of roses as hedges for boundary lines, or as dividing lines withip the garden. Prepare the site by double digging and working some decayed manure into the second spit, then apply a dressing of bonemeal two ounces per square yard to the top spit. This should be forked in. The variety you grow will depend on whether a tall hedge is needed (in which case it will be necessary to erect a framework or support', or a low hedge. In the writer’s opinion the low or medium height hedge is to be preferred. For the high hedges nearly all the) Wichurianas are admirable. Good] varieties are Dorothy Perkins, Emilyj Gray, Lady Godiva, Hiawatha and Purity. For a medium height hedge which makes a delightful informal dividing line, flowering profusely all the summer, the hybrid polyantha roses are hard to improve upon. One of the best is Kirsten Poulsen. For a low hedge, the baby polyanthus are delightful and will produce a wealth of bloom over a long period. The idea of roses for hedges appears to be taking hold in the Auckland district and one can readily visualise the improvement which will be effected when we have whole street frontages planted in this way.