PLANTING 



except in freezing weather, when you should not 

 plant. This is most important so that the roots 

 may be placed in the ground in proper condition. 

 Before taking the roses to their beds you should 

 have made a small plan of just how yon propose 

 to plant them; if for a formal or landscape effect 

 this has no doubt been all arranged beforehand to 

 suit your taste. If , however, you are merely planting 

 them in the ordinary form of bed it is a very simple 

 matter to have your bed arranged for their reception. 



You know what roses are coming, you have the 

 distance apart in which they should be planted 

 (covered in our main list), and you should decide 

 on the order in which you wish to place them. 

 Personally we prefer planting roses in alphabetical 

 order, as we find that nature's colors never conflict 

 and that it is the easiest way of telling where any 

 particular rose is located. 



Your bed should be three feet wide for Hybrid 

 Teas and Teas. For Hybrid Perpetuals and very 

 strong growers four feet is better. You plant your 

 roses ten inches from the edge of the bed and eigh- 

 teen inches apart, and you do not plant them 

 exactly opposite to one another; in other words, 

 you "stagger" them. You have two rows of plants, 

 each row ten inches from the side of the bed. With 



one row you plant the first rose nine inches from the 



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