BORDER ROSES AND CLIMBERS 153 



florist, I note the following: "Although there may be 

 great beauty in simplicity, yet to the admirers of the 

 Rose, singleness is a great objection." 



The best results will be secured from Climbing Roses 

 by digging a hole at least two feet deep and the same 

 square and filling it in with a mixture of good earth and 

 well-rotted cow manure. All Roses are better in a soil 

 on the side of heaviness, so that if the soil where they 

 are to be planted is light and sandy it is best not put 

 back in the hole at all. The plant should be set in the 

 hole with the roots well spread out and the soil pressed 

 firmly about them, otherwise high winds will loosen its 

 hold and damage our prospects of a fine display. A 

 handful of bone meal scratched in on the top when the 

 hole is filled up gives the young Rose a good start. The 

 plant should be well pruned, tops and roots, before 

 planting, and kept from drying out entirely for a few 

 weeks. They may be set out early in the spring 

 or in the fall. For very hardy sorts fall planting 

 is perhaps the most satisfactory, but for Teas, Hybrid 

 Teas, and Noisettes spring planting is safer. Farm- 

 yard manure is the best possible fertilizer for Roses. 

 In the spring we turn back the soil and scratch in a 

 little well-rotted stuff about the roots, and after the 

 flowering period is past they receive a reward of merit 

 in the form of a little wood ashes, or a handful of 

 bone meal. The Roses here given require no winter 

 covering, save in the case of the few noted, but a 



