Photo 148. 



(The best "Jack" roses I ever grew were from a bed 

 that had three loads of night-soil mixed with the sod. ) 

 The top or last foot of soil may be from the garden, 

 and should have no "raw" manure with it. Set your 

 plants in the early spring-. Never prune in late fall. 

 Pruning should be performed just as the buds are 

 beginning to push, in spring. Cut out all weak wood 

 and dead branches and clip the tops of the remaining 

 ones. If you made a rose-bed in the form of a trench 

 and adopted the subterranean watering suggested on 

 page 54, you could start your hybrid perpetual 's the 

 latter part of August and get them into bloom in Sep- 

 tember. To get the plants to bloom in September, 

 they should be pruned in August. In the eastern and 

 northern states, our hardiest roses are liable to suc- 

 cumb to the severity of winter. In photo 162 you 

 have presented two methods of wintering the rose. 

 To the right you see a mound drawn up'around the 



