36 THE BOOK OF THE ROSE CHAP. 
get more than their share of frost as well as of 
water. 
In dealing with situation, I do not allude to 
different parts of England, though it is well known 
that Maréchal Niel cannot be successfully grown 
out of doors in Yorkshire, while in some parts of 
Devonshire and Cornwall even sub-tropical plants 
will live through the winter. I am not sup- 
posing that the Rosarian can choose his county for 
Rose growing: if he could, for combination of 
climate and soil Herefordshire would probably 
make a strong bid for the pride of place, at all 
events for H.P.s. Teas, which depend less upon 
actual fatness of earth and more upon dryness in 
atmosphere and soil, may probably in favoured 
situations be easier 'grown in the Kastern Counties. 
If a man has only his own grounds wherein to 
choose a spot for his Roses, let the highest spot be 
chosen, if it be not the actual bare cone at the top 
of ahill. A little height will make more difference 
than one would suppose; and if on a slope, let 
Teas be planted at the top. 
2. SHELTER.—Exposure to strong winds is very 
hurtful to Roses in the flowering season, and at 
such a time an exhibitor will be more distressed by 
a gale of wind than by a storm of rain. Anything 
that rubs or chafes against a petal will injure and 
spoil it; and to tie every bud up so that nothing 
can possibly touch it is, among a large number, 
almost an impossibility. But wind may, and often 
does, do much more harm than spoiling the blooms: 
the newly budded shoots of ‘‘ maidens’”’ are sure to 
be blown right out of the stocks as soon as they 
