lOO A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



•ciently long to become exhausted of their am- 

 monia and salts. Pig-dung should be put on the 

 ground during winter or early spring, and forked 

 in at once. In using night-soil, mix with burnt 

 earth, sand, charcoal-dust, or other dry substance. 

 Apply a small portion of the mixture to each 

 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 re- 

 quire to be used cautiously." 



Mr. Keynes of Salisbury recommended : " A 

 good wheelbarrowful 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 favorable season, could not be sur- 

 passed in size or color, should be remembered 

 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 



