138 TEA-SCEXTED CHINA ROSE. 



Culture, 



As these interesting roses require more care in 

 their culture in the open air than any 3^et de- 

 scribed, I will endeavour to give the most explicit 

 directions I am able, so as to insure at least a 

 chancft of success. One most essential rule must 

 be observed in all moist soils and situations : 

 when grown on their own roots in moist soils 

 they must have 'a raised border in some warm 

 and sheltered place. This may be made with 

 flints or pieces of rock in the shape of a detached 

 rock border ; or a four-inch cemented brick wall, 

 one foot or eighteen inches high, may be built on 

 the southern front of a wall, thick hedge, or 

 wooden fence, at a distance so as to allow the 

 border to be two feet wide : the earth of this 

 border must be removed to eighteen inches in 

 depth, nine inches filled up with pieces of bricks, 

 tiles, stones, or lime rubbish : on this, place a 

 layer of compost, half loam or garden mould, and 

 half rotten dung, well mixed, to which add some 

 river or white pit sand : this layer of mould 

 ought to be a foot thick or mora, so as to allow 

 for its settling : the plants may be planted about 

 two feet apart. In severe frosty weather, in the 

 dead of winter (you need not begin till December), 

 protect them with green furze or whin branches, 

 or any kind of light spray that will admit the air 



