240 THE EOSE GARDEN CALENDAR. 



THE ROSE GARDEN CALENDAR, 



January. — If the weather be mild, planting, or lifting 

 and replanting, of rose trees may be continued as in 

 last month. 



February. — Towards the end of the month — unless 

 the weather be cold with severe frost — the general 

 pruning of all kinds of hardy roses may be commenced, 

 particularly those on the Manetti stock, which are early 

 in putting forth their buds-. 



March. — Early in this month, in the first and second 

 weeks, pruning may be continued ; if the season be 

 early, it should be finished by the 10th. A surface- 

 dressing of decayed manure may now be spread over 

 the surface of rose beds or round standards, in a circle 

 two feet in diameter and from one to two inches deep ; 

 or, what is more neat and equally efficient, cocoa-nut 

 fibre saturated with liquid manure may be employed. 

 Towards the end of the month remove protectors from 

 pyramids and tender roses. 



April. — Early iii this month Tea-scented, Noisette, 

 and China Roses should be pruned. They require but 

 little pruning ; the small spray-like shoots may be 

 thinned out, and those that are long shortened to half 

 their length. Tender roses that have been under glass 

 all winter may, in the second week, be planted out. 



