342 THE BOOK OF THE ROSE CHAP. 
trouble about a thing should reap some benefit from 
it. In ordering Standards, do not forget that unless 
you ask for ‘‘ Half-Standards” you may get stems 
4 or 5 feet high. If new beds are to be made or 
planting on an extensive scale is to be undertaken, 
preparations should have commenced even in 
September, in procuring fresh soil and digging the 
beds out to the depth of two feet. It should be 
pushed on at any rate early in October. Pot Roses 
for growing under glass should now be repotted. 
Many of the free-blooming Teas, now covered with 
buds, will open them indoors at a time when they 
will be much appreciated. But beware of too much 
heat when the amount of daylight is small. This is 
the month for taking cuttings out of doors: those of 
the Roses themselves do better if the leaves have 
not fallen, and these, if used at all, had better be 
taken first. Manetti and briar cuttings will do as 
well without the leaves. All extra long shoots of 
Roses should now be shortened sufficiently to 
diminish the wind leverage on the roots; these 
pieces may be used as cuttings. Towards the end 
of the month a commencement in planting may be 
made with those Roses which have simply to be 
moved from one part of the garden to the other. 
Such may be planted before their leaves have fallen, 
much care being taken that their roots are exposed 
as little as possible; they should be watered and 
syringed immediately after planting, and will probably 
do better thus than if moved later. About the middle 
of the month fresh cuttings may be taken of briar 
and manetti, and later the rooted cutting and seed- 
ling stocks may be planted out, but standard stocks 
will not be ready yet. 
