PLANTING 



Seventh, for Briar, Manetti and Rugosa, do not 

 place the bud more than three inches or less than 

 two inches from the finished surface of the bed. For 

 Multiflora, plant one and a half inches below ground. 

 For own-root, plant just below former level. 



If it is impossible to finish planting in any one day 

 take particular care of the remaining roses. Keep 

 them heeled in damp earth, or if the season is so 

 late that this cannot be done, keep them well-cov- 

 ered indoors with soil. It is very easy to cover the 

 finished beds with a heavy litter of manure and straw 

 to keep the frost from them. If a quantity of soil 

 is mixed and kept indoors ready for use, holes can 

 be dug and the plants set in this soil as has been 

 suggested in "Location and Preparation." This 

 method has been used successfully in the very late 

 autumn and at the end of the winter. If planting 

 in the late autumn, it is well to protect the plants 

 as much as possible. The best way to do this is to 

 add a few wheelbarrow loads of soil to the beds 

 after planting and make little mounds around each 

 plant, hilling them up and then covering with litter. 

 If this is done the coarse litter should be removed 

 in the early spring and the fine manure remaining 

 should be forked carefully into the bed, as this will 

 be a good fertilizer during the summer. In autumn 

 planting it will generally be found that rose plants 



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