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must be properly made. The plant must be 

 properly set in its place, and the soil properly 

 replaced. 



In good rich garden soil that has been well 

 cultivated, eighteen inches to two feet is suffici- 

 ently deep to dig it. But in a new garden such 

 as my own, where we come to sandy marl as a 

 subsoil, very much more care is required to 

 obtain good results. For Roses the beds are 

 trenched three spits deep ; the sandy marl 

 at the bottom broken up with the fork, and 

 two parts of brown fibrous loam and one part of 

 good rotten manure incorporated with the sur- 

 face soil. What remains, if there is nothing else 

 handy, is then carted down the meadows and 

 put in the shallow hole from which nine inches 

 of the fibrous loam have been taken, and the 

 turf which has been peeled off is then replaced, 

 so that the hay crop of next June does not 

 suffer. For shrubs, of course, so much of the 

 loam is not needed. For herbaceous borders, 

 leaf-mould and sharp gritty road-scrapings are 

 added. For Rhododendrons all manure is ex- 

 cluded, loam, leaf-mould, peat, and road grit 



