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with proper management, equally good results are 
obtained in both instances, though some prefer the 
autumn, and others the spring ; but by no means 
let it be deferred later than the end of March with 
the hardier and worked kinds, otherwise many 
failures and much weak growth will be the result, 
for no plant suffers more from late planting than 
the Rose. The Tea-scented and other tender kinds 
should not be planted out before the end of March 
or the beginning of April. Plants upon their own 
roots, whether Tea-scented, China, Hybrid Per- 
petual, or Bourbon, should never be planted out 
before April. It is not unfrequently the custom 
with many amateurs to plant all their Roses, 
whether worked plants or otherwise, at the same 
time; the result is, that those upon their own roots, 
if planted in the autumn or during winter, are 
almost sure to perish before spring. As soon as 
these latter are received, let them be placed in a 
cold frame or plunged underneath a north wall or 
hedge, where they can be screened and protected 
during the more severe weather. 
It may not be out of place here, to mention that 
all who are about to purchase plants should do 
so as early as possible in the autumn; even if the 
plants are not required for planting till the spring, 
it will nevertheless be better, and indeed necessary, 
to do so in order to secure good plants, for if 
deferred until the spring, the chances are that 
many of the newest and best kinds will have been 
sold out, and, as a matter of course, the best plants 
have been selected for the earliest orders. 
