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roses require precisely the same almost daily 

 cultivation of the surface of the soil above their 

 roots that vegetables require. Provide them 

 with such a garden all to themselves or with 

 such a rosary as will furnish all of these things 

 and you have done all that may be done — and 

 you will have roses accordingly. 



The kind of soil which is suitable for the Hy- 

 brid Perpetual and Hybrid Tea roses is prac- 

 tically the same, except that the latter have not 

 the same taste for clay admixture that the for- 

 mer have. It can hardly be too rich and heavy 

 for Hybrid Perpetual roses, but Teas and Hy- 

 brid Teas will do better if such a soil is made 

 lighter and warmer by having a portion of sand 

 worked through it. When it comes to the actual 

 mixing of a soil, follow the proportions of one 

 part well decomposed stable manure to three 

 parts of good rich loam or vegetable mould such 

 as woods earth represents. This does not mean 

 that a special soil must be made up in order to 

 grow roses; but this is the ideal which ought to 

 be approximated as nearly as possible, in order 

 to grow the best roses. The soil of a good vege- 

 table garden, or such soil as will furnish a good 

 vegetable garden when it is worked up, is per- 

 fectly all right for roses, when suitably enriched 

 with manure. 



