PLANTING 



is most important so that the roots may be placed 

 in the ground in proper condition. Before taking 

 the roses to their beds a small plan should be made 

 of just how they are to be planted; if for a formal or 

 landscape effect this has no doubt been all arranged 

 beforehand. If, however, they are to be grown in 

 the ordinary form of bed it is a very simple matter 

 to have the bed arranged for their reception. 



Knowing what roses are coming, and the distance 

 apart in which they should be planted (covered in 

 the Hsts), decide on the order in which they should 

 be placed; planting alphabetically is the easiest way 

 of telling where any particular rose is located. 



The bed should be three and a half feet wide for 

 the best Hybrid Teas and Teas; for Hybrid Perpet- 

 uals and the very strongest growers four feet is better; 

 while for smaller growing roses a three-foot bed is 

 sufficient. For all beds plant the roses ten inches 

 from the edge and the proper distance apart. There 

 should be two rows of plants, each row ten inches 

 from the side of the bed. With one row plant the 

 first rose ten inches from the end of the bed; with 

 the other row plant the first rose twenty inches from 

 the same end of the bed. This does not bring the 

 plants opposite one another and gives them a trifle 

 more room in which to grow, making them nearly 

 the same distance apart each way. These beds as 

 given are the most convenient and economical and 



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