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elements, it will be a little less than level with 

 the unworked ground around — which is pre- 

 cisely what it should be to catch and hold the 

 moisture when it rains. 



It is not necessary to go to this great pains 

 always however, and for the gardener who has 

 average soil to work with I would not suggest 

 it, unless his ambition is to grow something ex- 

 ceptional in the way of roses. For as I have 

 said, rosei^ will almost certainly grow practically 

 anywhere, and if you will remember that the 

 Hybrid Perpetuals will 7iot do well in a light 

 soil — that they do positively require a heavy, 

 strong, clay — and that Hybrid Teas will do best 

 in a light soil, but that both require absolutely 

 perfect drainage; that both need a root-bed 

 made up of at least one-quarter its bulk of thor- 

 oughly decomposed stable manure (but that 

 this must not have lain out in the open and so 

 lost its enriching elements) , you will be sure of 

 success. Examine the proposed site of the roses, 

 use common sense to bring it to the proper con- 

 dition, and then proceed. 



As they are larger and stronger growing 

 plants Hybrid Perpetuals are usually set further 

 apart in the beds than Hybrid Teas, the proper 

 distance between them being two and a half feet 

 while between the Teas and Hybrid Teas it is 



