136 TEA-SCENTED CHINA ROSE. 



Culture. 



As these interesting roses require more care in 

 their culture in the open air than any yet de- 

 scribed, I will endeavour to give the most explicit 

 directions I am able, so as to insure at least a 

 ohance of success. One most essential rule must 

 be observed in all moist soils and situations : when 

 grown on their own roots in moist soils they must 

 have a raised border in some warm and sheltered 

 place. This may be made with flints or pieces of 

 rock in the shape of a detached rock border, or a 

 four-inch cemented brick wall, one foot or eighteen 

 inches high, may be built on the southern front of 

 a wall, thick hedge, or wooden fence, at a distance 

 so as to allow the border to be two feet wide : the 

 earth of this border must be removed to eighteen 

 inches in depth, nine inches filled up with pieces of 

 oricks, tiles, stones, or lime rubbish : on this, place 

 a layer of compost, half loam or garden mould, and 

 half rotten dung, well mixed, to which add some 

 river or white pit sand : this layer of mould ought 

 to be a foot thick or more, so as to allow for its 

 settling : the plants may be planted about two feet 

 apart. In severe frosty weather, in the dead of 

 winter (you need not begin till December), 

 protect them with green furze or whin branches, 

 or any kind of light spray that will admit the air 

 and yet keep off the violence of severe frost. I 



