40 PLANTING. 



garden or your Rose beds, and prepare your planting 

 scheme, mark down exactly where each tree has got to 

 go, bearing in mind not only the garden effect, but 

 also the requirements of the Rose. 



If the garden you are laying out is a large 'one, 

 my advice is that you order your trees as follows : — 

 1. Climbers. 2. Standards. 3. Dwarf trees. On 

 no account have too big a delivery at one time, unless 

 you have the hands to cope with the careful planting, 

 staking, labelling, etc. It is a bad plan to keep trees 

 heeled in too long before planting, or to leave them 

 tied up in the nursery bundles. I have seen large 

 bundles of trees delivered, which, owing to frost and 

 snow, could not be unpacked, and then, when the 

 weather changed, heeled into trenches prior to plant- 

 ing, so long that they lost their labels, ana even started 

 to root. The nurseries, which hold past masters in the 

 art of packing, make provision for moderate delay in 

 planting, and place damp moss and litter round the 

 roots inside the bundle in case frost or snow should 

 suddenly delay their being put in. The gardener need 

 only place the bundles in a shed or cellar free from 

 frost, and, having damped the base of the bundles, 

 throw one or two sacks over them to make all 

 safe. Still, the sooner they are unpacked the better, 

 and the moment the weather breaks the bundles should 

 be opened, and, wet or fine, a trench should be got out, 

 and the trees should be placed in it in a leaning posi- 

 tion, and the roots, together with a third of the tree, 

 covered with soil, over which should be placed one or 

 two mats. 



When unpacking, use every care, for the trees 

 cling together, and a disinterested helper is sure to pull 

 or shake them apart roughly, and so damage the trees. 

 If you have to heel or trench them in the open before 

 planting, see that all labels that are attached are shifted 

 to the tops of the trees. The reason is this : If they 

 are too low, when earthed up the names will get 

 obliterated or the labels destroyed. It is not easy in a 

 large collection to find experts to name every variety 

 at any stage of growth, and it is most annoying to have 



