IV. 
POSITION AND SOIL. 
4) HE first requisite in the culture of 
| roses is the selection and prepara- 
tion of a suitable place for plant- 
ns ing. This is very important, as 
all that follows depends upon the care used 
in this first step. 
To begin with, then, choose the best place 
you have in the garden, a place where you 
can offer sufficient protection by means of 
hedges or board fences from bleak sweeping 
winds. When fences are used, their general 
ugliness can be most appropriately clothed 
by roses themselves. A warm, sunny posi- 
tion is also requisite; if so situated that 
there is an exposure to the morning sun, and 
the hot rays during the afternoon are in part 
or wholly shaded, all the better, but acertain 
amount of sunlight is as essential to a rose’s 
welfare as to our own, though many of us do 
not show our appreciation of the blessings of 
sunlight as gratefully as do our roses. Be- 
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