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the great heat of our Summers, and where the water will 
not rest through December and January. A slight de- 
clivity to the East or West in the Southern States is to 
be preferred to a one to the North or South. They might 
not get sufficient sun with a Northern exposure, while 
an exposure to the South is very trying on tender and 
weak growing varieties through the months of July and 
August, when the sun is so exceedingly hot and ground 
dry, without ample facilities for irrigation or sprinkling 
are at hand. Manure if new should never be applied so 
as to come in contact with the roots, but may be spread 
upon the surface of the earth as a mulch in the Fall and 
dug in the following Spring. All animal n:anures are 
good for Roses, particularly the droppings of the cow, pig 
and sheep. Besides these, the cleanings of the poultry 
house, bone dust, and guano, will be found excellent. 
Horse manure is better for heavy soils than for light, and 
cow manure is to be preferred for a light soil. A good 
watering of liquid manure will bea great benefit to the 
plants, more especially during the time of their formation 
of flower buds, and at all times of drought. This is as 
good a restorative and tonic to the Rose as the waters of 
Apollinaris and Vichy is to fellow man. Only remem- 
ber that weak and often is better than strong and seldom. 
Another point in the planting of Roses is the arrangement 
of color. Do not plant all your reds and whites and yel- 
lows together; mix them judiciously in your borders. A 
white Rose never looks so white, oi a red Rose so red, as 
when grown side by side. One color brings out or rather 
makes the other appear all the more brilliant, has a better 
effect, and shows more diversity of color. It is told of a 
highly sensitive dame whose silly pride was in dress, 
that she went into hysterics before a large party when 
her great rival in millinery came and sat upon the otto- 
