XIV CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS 343 
November.—This is a busy and important month, 
as it is the time for planting, and the work should 
be pushed on whenever the soil is fairly dry, for 
November days are short, and no planting should 
be done when the ground is sticky. Unpack the 
purchased Roses carefully, and lay them in the 
ground when they cannot be planted at once. Be 
careful in each detail of planting, for much depends 
upon it. Stocks of all sorts should now be planted 
also if possible, but there will not be much time yet 
for getting standards from the hedges. Where seed 
is saved it should now be gathered. All wild growth 
is now to be cut away from budded stocks, leaving 
one or two buds on those laterals of the standards 
which have been successfully operated on. Roses 
in pots should be brought into cool shelter before 
severe weather. In northern districts it may be 
well to place the winter protection round the Teas 
before the month is out, or they can now be earthed up. 
December.—In most English counties it will 
suffice to apply the winter protection during the 
first fortnight of this month, but dead leaves should 
have been collected by the end of the first week in 
November, and bracken should have been cut and 
set ready, in sheaves, not in heaps, as soon as it 
began to change colour. It is perhaps best to 
commence the protection as soon as the Rose 
planting is finished, even though the setting out of 
stocks has to be postponed. They will do nearly as 
well if planted at any dry time during the winter, 
but a severe early frost coming before the bed- 
clothes are on the tender Teas may cause much 
lamentation. Now is the time, on dull damp days, 
to sally forth with the little stock axe and the Grecian 
