210 SURFACE-DKESSING. 



dwarf roses in the same stock are alone adapted, 

 and if planted as directed in p. 203, they will 

 abundantly reward the cultivator. 



SUKFACE-DRESSINGK 



To cultivate roses in perfection, and more par- 

 ticularly standards, they should have annual sur- 

 face-dressings of manure, or some rich compost. 

 For standards or pillar roses on lawns, presum- 

 ing that the usual circle of bare earth is round 

 each tree, as recommended in p. 38, common 

 manure should always be applied in autumn, 

 about two shovelfuls to each tree. Its effects 

 are gradually washed down to the roots during 

 winter. 



Night-soil, mixed with the drainings of the 

 dung-hill, or even with pond or ditch water, so as 

 to make a thick liquid, and applied once or twice 

 in winter, giving one or two gallons to each tree, 

 will be found of great use. Brewers' grains, after 

 being fermented in a heap two or three weeks, 

 and mixed with burnt earth, say one-fourth, giving 

 from half a peck to a peck to each tree in Novem- 

 ber or December, are a most powerful stimulant. 

 Night soil, mixed with burnt earth in the same 

 proportions, is an excellent surface-dressing. In 

 spring the soil should be stirred to the depth 



