VI 

 PLANTING 



LET us suppose that your beds are ready, your 

 shipment has been ordered, and on one eventful 

 morning it has arrived. You naturally take great 

 pains to unpack carefully and to see that the varie- 

 ties received check off properly with the order 

 given. Sometimes one or more mistakes may be 

 made in a large shipment, but as a usual thing 

 great care has been exercised both in the selection 

 and packing of your order, and it should arrive in 

 good shape and the varieties should be as ordered. 

 Very often the nurseryman will add a plant or two 

 for good measure. The plants should be unpacked 

 inside some building, unless perfect weather condi- 

 tions prevail, viz., a damp, moist day neither 

 cold nor hot. After having been checked off, the 

 plants should be carefully covered so that the roots 

 will neither be frozen nor dried out by too much 

 wind or heat. Usually the roses come packed in 

 moss which should be left on them. If there is no 

 moss, cover the roots with damp earth, and when 

 taken outside keep them protected with any kind 

 of wrapping, such as burlap or gunny sacks; or, 



better still, keep them in buckets or tubs of water, 



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