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Sutherland, Madame Laffay, Countess Duchatel, 

 and some others. Now, working out a system 

 from the above accident, I 

 should recommend that a 

 bed in every rose-garden be 

 appropriated to these winter 

 roses, proceeding thus : 

 Presuming that plants one, 

 two, or three years old are 

 convenient, or that a bed of 

 Hybrid Perpetuals can be 

 appropriated, the plants 

 should be taken up in Fe- 

 bruary, their long roots 

 shortened to about half their 



length, the fibrous roots left untouched, and their 

 heads left unpruned. They should then be planted 

 thickly under a north wall, or fence, and remain 

 there till the end of April They may then be 

 taken up ; their heads closely pruned, as in the 

 annexed figure, which is that of a dwarfed Standard 

 Kose pruned for late flowering. 



A bed must be prepared for them, which can- 

 not be manured too bountifully. A coat, four or 

 six inches thick, of any kind of manure in a half- 

 decomposed state, well mixed with the soil, to a 

 depth of eighteen inches or two feet, will give 

 them all the necessary vigour. If the weather be 

 dry and warm, the roots of the plants may be 

 f puddled/ i. e. dipped in a thick mixture of loam 



