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H. P. group. It is more or less everblooming. The bases of the 

 petals are tawny yellow with creamy tips. 



CULTIVATIOX OF RoSES 



It is axiomatic that garden roses do not like wet feet — there- 

 fore, the beds where they are to be grown should be well-drained. 

 If the sub-soil is of such a nature that surplus water does not 

 naturally drain away, artificial drainage must be provided. This 

 may be accomplished by laying tile drains wath a slight but 

 uniform slope so that the w^ater may drain into a sewer, open 

 ditch, or "sink aw^ay," or the bed may be excavated tw'o or three 

 feet deep, and six inches of broken stone, bricks, clinkers or 

 coarse ashes placed in the excavation before returning the soil. 

 Sods placed grass side downwards immediately over the drainage 

 will prevent it from clogging. 



Soil. Roses may be made to grow in almost any kind of soil 

 provided it is suitably enriched with manure, but most varieties 

 prefer a rather heavy loam. The soil should be prepared by 

 double digging, preferably eighteen inches or two feet deep, al- 

 though, if the soil is naturally rich, it is possible to get by with 

 only a foot of i:)repared soil, \\dien making the beds, take 

 advantage of the opportunity to mix plenty (up to one-fourth 

 of the bulk of soil) of decayed manure with the lower nine inches 

 of soil. If the lower level is taken care of when the beds are 

 made, it is easy to fertilize the upper nine inches at any con- 

 venient time in the future. Preferably, the ground should be 

 prepared a month or two ahead of planting time to give it an 

 opportunity to settle. 



Plantifii^. Roses may be planted either in fall or spring. Both 

 seasons have their advocates. Our experience at the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden indicates that it is six of one and half-a-dozen of 

 the other, but if spring planting is adopted it must be done as 

 early as it is possible to work the soil. Dig a hole large enough 

 to accommodate the roots without crowding, spread them out, 

 scatter fine soil in amongst and over them and pack firmly by 

 trampling. Mrs. B. A. Jackson, writing in "The American Rose 

 Magazine," a publication of the American Rose Society, suggests 

 filling a flower pot with earth and then turning it out in the center 



