36 THE HTBRID CHINA ROSE. 



beautiful Hybrid Perpetual Eoses as ever-bloom- 

 ing bushes for our rose-beds. 



Culture. 



We may confine all the varieties of this group 



to pillars, or to large standards to be planted in 

 conspicuous situations : although their beauty, 

 like that of all summer roses, is fleeting, they are 

 certainly gorgeous objects when well cultivated. 

 To cultivate them well is to lay round their stems, 

 early in November, a good proportion of manure 

 in a circle three feet in diameter on the surface 

 of the soil, and mind that this is renewed before 

 the blooming season commences, as the surface 

 of the soil should then be moist. If this is at- 

 tended to, they will continue longer in bloom. 



The unsightly appearance of this surface ma- 

 nuring round trees, on carefully kept lawns, is 

 objectionable, as it must not be dug or forked in ; 

 this may be obviated by covering the manure 

 with green moss. To keep the birds from dis- 

 turbing it, which they will do after worms, place 

 on the moss some pieces of rock or flints ; thus 

 forming an ornamental mound. In France, roses 

 are cultivated with much and well-rewarded care ; 

 for even standards of thirty years' growth have, 

 every spring, a large quantity of manure laid on 

 the surface round their stems. The extreme heat 

 of the sun is thus prevented from penetrating to 

 the roots ; and, as they are abundantly watered 



