44 PLANTING. 



you must from time to time top-dress and mulch, else 

 the soil will soon get impoverished, and your trees 

 will soon go back. I would never nurse a sick 

 tree or leave a vacant space unfilled, for not only do 

 you waste good ground, but you lose a season's plea- 

 sure in a plant that should have been. If you arrange 

 your varieties, you can get your trees to conform to a 

 set space, such as eighteen or twenty inches apart and 

 sixteen inches between the rows. Keep your strongest 

 growers to the centre of the bed, and^ in the case of 

 two or only three rows, plant a strong and a shy 

 grower alternately. Thus Caroline Testout, Her 

 Majesty, La France, or Margaret Dickson, Merville de 

 Lyon, Frau-Karl Druschki. It is a little difficult to 

 lay down any law as to distance between the trees, 

 for so much depends upon pruning, feeding, and 

 varieties. It would be absurd to plant a bed to what 

 you expected every tree to grow. If you want a Rose 

 garden, let it be for Roses only. You can get Roses to 

 do almost anything you Avish, from climbing a fence to 

 covering the ground. 



THE ROSE GARDEN. 



Roses yellow, Roses red, 

 Roses blushing overhead, 

 Roses whiter than the snow, 

 Roses standard, Roses low, 

 Roses golden, Roses flame, 

 Roses labelled true to name, 

 Roses climbing up a wall, 

 Roses crowning pillar tall, 

 Roses down the garden edge, 

 Roses sweet briar in a hedge, 

 Roses creeping o'er a fence, 

 Roses small, Roses immense, 

 Roses perfumed in degree, 

 Roses hybrid, Roses tea, 

 Roses ! and no more I'll say, 

 Save ** Roses, Roses, all the way.** 



— T. G. W. H. 



