84 THE ROSE BOOK 



Aim6e Vibert, Flora, Alister Stella Gray, Reve d'Or, and 

 Reine Olga de Wurtemburg, and all are worthy roses. 



If the beginner were to give his roses the positions 

 they need, keeping the vigorous Ramblers to the arbours 

 and arches and trellises in the open garden, and the 

 tender Teas and Hybrid Teas to the warm walls, his 

 garden would provide fewer disappointments and greater 

 delights. 



The initial planting is all important. If it is well 

 and properly carried out the roses make a vigorous 

 start ; if indifferently performed, years may pass before 

 the support is satisfactorily covered. For each plant a 

 hole two or three feet across, and of similar depth, should 

 be dug out ; if the garden soil is poor, it should be re- 

 placed with loam with which rotted manure to the extent 

 of one-third is mixed together with a pint of bonemeal 

 to each bushel of soil. It is wise to fill the hole with 

 this some days in advance of planting so that it may 

 settle down. A firm soil is of the first importance ; the 

 compost ought to be trodden down as it is put in. If the 

 garden soil is loamy there is no need to import turf, but 

 some manure and bonemeal may be mixed in with 

 advantage. It is poor gardening, and especially poor 

 rose growing, to cramp the roots of a Rambler in a small 

 hole. You may even neglect it in subsequent years 

 without great detriment to the show of bloom if it 

 has been firmly planted in good soil, for a climbing rose 

 that is well established is, as a rule, very well able to 

 look after itself. 



A pillar or pole finely covered with a rose, leafy and 



