102 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



plant or bed during winter, and let it be forked in at once. 

 Soot is a good manure, especially for the Tea-scented and 

 other Roses on their own roots; so are wood-ashes and 

 charcoal. Bone-dust or half-inch bones forms an excellent 

 and most lasting manure. Guano and superphosphate of 

 lime are both good manure for Roses, but require to be 

 used cautiously." 



Mr Keynes of Salisbury recommends " a good wheel- 

 barrowful of compost — two-thirds good turfy loam, and 

 one-third well-decomposed animal manure." He adds — 

 and the words of one whose Roses, in a favourable season, 

 cannot be surpassed in size or colour, should be remem- 

 i bered practically — " It is difficult to give the Rose too good 

 a soil. 



Mr Lane of Berkhampstead writes thus : " The best 

 method of manuring beds is to dig in a good dressing of 

 stable or other similar manure, this being the most safe 

 from injuring vegetation in any soil, and it never does more 

 good to Roses than when it is used as a surface-dressing. 

 When placed, about two inches deep, over the surface in 

 March, the ground seldom suffers from drought, but this is, 

 perhaps, by some considered unsightly." 



Mr George Paul, " the hero of a hundred fights," advises 



