NOVEMBER 



IRISH GARDENING. 



163 



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Roses. 



By O'DoNEL Browne, M.D. 



PLANTING operations are at their lieitrlit now 

 advice on this, the most important part 

 rosarian's duty, may be again i^iven. Ground s 

 have been trenched and well manured last month 

 ready (as it is a tfood plan to allow your beds to 

 down ere plant- 

 ing- begins) for 

 a favourable 

 chance to get 

 the newl\^ ar- 

 rived trees into 

 their perma- 

 nent quarters. 

 Should the 

 trenching, how- 

 ever, have been 

 put off, my ad- 

 vice to all is not 

 to delay any 

 longer, but to 

 push on with 

 the work at full 

 speed. See to 

 your drainage, 

 break up the 

 soil well at the 

 bottom of the 

 bed with a pick- 

 axe or fork, and 

 try to keep the 

 soil that is in 

 the second spit 

 there and not 

 bring it to the 

 top. Mix a 

 plentiful supply 

 of well-decayed 

 farm manure 

 with this second 

 spit and onh' 

 very little in 

 the top spit. 

 Nothing can be 

 more injurious 

 to a rose than 

 close contact of 

 its roots with 

 m a n u r e. In 

 planting wait 

 until the soil is 



not sticky — soil that will not bind or stick to the spade is 

 in the right condition. Carefully heel your plants in near 

 their planting quarters, so that when planting thoy may 

 be at hand. When about to plant take out holes about 

 one foot square and four inches deep. Then take the 

 plant in your left hand, and having shortened any long 

 shoots spread out the roots like a lady's fan, removing 

 any damaged by a sharp cut of the knife. Make 

 a hole sufficiently deep so that the junction of the rose 



Rose Mks. John Bateman 



I photogr.iph kindly taken b)- Mr. P. Mu 

 Tea, of a deep china rose colour, 



and roots is about one inch under the soil when planting 

 is completed. Hold the plant as I say, and spread out 

 the roots with the fingers of both hands and get an 

 assistant to shake some of the finest and dryest soil on 

 to the roots. If two roots have to cross place soil 

 between both, and then carefully give the plant a few 

 little shakes to allow the crumbs of soil to work in 

 between the roots. Now, tread this soil moderately 

 tirm, still holding the plant with the left hand to pre- 

 vent it sinking 

 too deep under 

 I li e pressure. 

 Fill in a little 

 more soil, and 

 pass on to the 

 next, and 

 finally settle 

 the soil nicely 

 on the bed 

 when all is 

 done. There is 

 no necessity to 

 put straw and 

 manure on the 

 beds, although 

 It is often ad- 

 \ ised. Let me 



r c p e a t the 

 warning which 

 I have often 

 given — enter 

 every rose's 

 name in a note- 

 book for future 

 reference, o r 

 if you can 

 manage it, 

 enter them in 

 your head. 

 After high 

 winds look and 

 see that none 

 of your trees 

 are wobbling in 

 I h e ground ; 

 roots will not 

 form if the tree 

 is not firm, but 

 suckers will. 

 Leave the sur- 

 face soil fairly 

 rough ; frost 

 will help you to 

 pring. Roses 



rell, of The Nurseries, Shrewsbury, 

 with yellow at the base of the petals. 



make this into a nice tilth \n th 

 being moved from one place of the garden to 

 another should be moved with a ball, and the 

 foliage should get a few syringings and the roots 

 a good drenching. Now, when the planting is over 

 you may turn your attention to the planting ot 

 briars in their quarters for budding next year. Get 

 all the briars you can, and treat them as rose 

 plants. 



