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gratifying results. It is hoped that the following hints, the 

 results of some years of experience, wUL prove of value to those 

 Canadian culturists who " have beautiful roses in their hearts." 



In choosing a site for the Eose ground, it is very desirable 

 that a place should be selected that is sheltered from the sweep 

 of high winds. Yet in making such a selection, proximity to 

 growing trees should be avoided, lest the tree-roots running into 

 the Eose-ground rob the Eoses of their proper nutriment. K 

 possible, let groups of evergreens stand between the royal resi- 

 dence and the caves of Boreas, not necessarily in unbroken hedge, 

 but rather in such form that the force of storms shall be broken, 

 and the winds, tempered by sifting through the evergreen boughs, 

 shall move among the Eose trees in gentle breezes. 



The Eose grounds require to be open to the sun during the 

 early part of the day, but such is the fierceness of his noon-day 

 heat, in our climate, that the flowers, when exposed to its full 

 power, very soon lose their freshness and become scorched and 

 discolored. If the grounds can be selected where the shadows 

 of buildings or tall trees will fall on them soon after mid-day, 

 the flowers will continue much longer in their freshness and 

 beauty. There is, however, a difficulty in doing this in our lati- 

 tude, owing to the nearly vertical position of the noon-day sun. 

 If the Eose trees be planted near enough to large evergreens or 

 other trees, to be shaded by them at noon from a June or July 

 sun, they will be bo near as to be injuriously affected by their 

 roots. Yet the remoter vicinity of such trees on the south-west 

 and west will modify the heat somewhat, while a good thick 

 mulch upon the surface of the ground will keep the roots moist 

 and cool, and in this way preserve the flowers considerably by 

 keeping up an abundant flow of sap. But the sun should never 

 be wholly excluded. Better that the Eoses have the sunshine 

 all the day long than be kept in constant shadow. As the day 

 declines, the trees that form the barrier to the sweep of westerly 

 winds, will cast their lengthening shadows over the Eose 

 beds, and give them some hours of repose before the night comes 



