212 SOILS. 



Standards should not be planted nearer to each 

 other than three feet, and dwarfs in beds from 

 twenty-one inches to two feet apart. 



SOILS. 



The most eligible soils for roses budded on the 

 Dog Eose stock are strong alluvial loams inclining 

 to clay ; they also grow well in heavy calcareous 

 clays, for on a steep bank on my premises, which 

 was cut through on lowering the turnpike road, 

 leaving a bare surface of white clay, full of chalk 

 stones with literally no surface soil, Dog Eose 

 stocks there made stout shoots, fourteen feet long, 

 in one summer. Still any deep soil with a cool 

 subsoil suits them well. A light surface soil with 

 gravel or sand beneath is not favourable to them ; 

 but, with abundance of surface manure. Standard 

 Eoses will even in such soils do pretty well. Stiff 

 soils on the whole are most favourable, for they 

 are the soils in which the Dog Eose grows most 

 vigorously, and if they are of the most retentive 

 nature, they are easily corrected by some burnt 

 earth and manure. 



It is light sandy soils that are naturally unfa- 

 vourable to standard or dwarf Standard Eoses 

 budded on the Dog Eose, and in such soils they 



