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it can be shaded from the intensity of the mid-day sun. If it 

 'can be so located as to receive the morning and evening sun, 

 and shaded during its greatest heat, the bloom- will be more 

 perfect, and continue longer. Some varieties are very delicate, 

 and their blossoms are almost ruined by a full exposure. An 

 eastern or northern exposure is, therefore, the best. Roses 

 should not, however, be wholly shaded. 



Planting. The best season for planting all the hardy Roses, 

 as before stated, is in autumn; or, if necessary to defer till 

 spring, it should be done as early as possible. If planted late in 

 the spring, it will be best to cut the plants down to a few buds. 

 Any time, after the first severe frost, is a proper time to com- 

 mence planting. The plants should be taken up with great 

 care, disturbing the roots as little as possible, remembering that 

 the breaking of a single fibre diminishes the strength of the 

 growth and future prosperity of the plant. Presuming that the 

 ground is all ready, the holes should be dug somewhat larger 

 than the roots. When the planting is completed, the plant should 

 stand but a very little lower than it stood before in the ground. 

 The operation of placing the roots and fibres should be done 

 with the nicest care. In my fall planting, I place the plant in 

 an oblique direction, so that the plants may be easily bent down 

 and covered. Fall-planted roses are liable to be more or less 

 winter-killed, which is prevented, if covered with coarse litter, 

 or manure. 



We have seen Pillar Roses, in the grounds of Mr. Charles 

 Hoffman, of Salem, which, without protection, are liable to be 

 killed down to within two or three feet of the ground, grown 

 in great magnificence, forming beautiful pyramids of Roses from 

 twelve to fifteen feet high. We had never seen the Pillar Rose 

 in such perfection. They were the same varieties which in 

 our own ground did not exceed more than five or six feet, as 

 the greater part of the new wood is every winter-killed down. 

 We were informed that the supports to which these Roses were 

 trained, consisting of nothing more than three or four strong 



