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ture, add a plenty of old, cow manure and work it in deep, and 

 the results will be a fine crop of roses. As before intimated, if 

 you have sand or loose gravel, it must be removed and the clay 

 (not "raw clay,'' as one would make bricks of, but a clay sod and 

 subsoil all mixed) must be substituted. In pruning (which 

 should be done only in the spring), cut out all old wood, and 

 one-half of the weaker of the new wood and slightly shorten 

 back the remaining ones. Don't buy your roses or other 

 plants of "Tree agents." Send direct to the nursery, and you 

 will be apt to get what you call for, as it is to the interest of all 

 such firms to keep up their reputation. 



THE RHODODENDRON. 



Photo 126 gives a view of a neat batch of Rhododendrons. 

 This is one of the plants in particular whose home it is necessarv 

 to take into consideration. Where do you find it a native? 



Photo 126, Rhododendrons. 



