PICTORIAL PRACTICAL ROSE GROWING. 
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PICTORIAL PRACTICE.—PLAIN HINTS IN FEW WORDS, 
FIG. 33.—PLANTING AND PRUNING ROSE HEDGES.—I. 
A, a year old or seedling Sweet Brier, Rosa rubiginosa : a, tap root ; 
b, side roots; c, collar; d, leading shoot; e, side shoots. 
B, a two years old Sweet Brier: f, points of shortening the roots 
which are damaged in lifting; g, depth of planting; 4, point of 
cutting off the top when it is starting into growth in spring, in 
order to encourage growths from the collar and secure a good 
base. 
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C, planting in a trench, the Briers being 1 foot apart: i, trench taken 
out by line 9 to 12 inches deep and nearly perpendicular; y, 
plants with roots properly disposed in the trench; 4%, soilremoved 
from and afterwards returned to the trench. 
D, planting on prepared trenched ground where the soil is solid and 
clayey: 7, drain pipe with proper fall and outlet; m, bottom 
spit soil broken up with a fork and left there, but mixed with 
manure; ”, second spit soil turned, and decayed manure and 
gritty matter intermixed ; 0, top spit soil turned upside down as 
in ciseinS 3 p, natuial stratum; g, Brier properly planted; 1, 
mulch, 
