OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



Sometimes rose roots are injured in the shipment, 

 in which case it will be necessary to cut off the broken 

 ends. A good pair of pruning shears and a sharp 

 knife are the two best implements for this work. 

 Cuts should be sharp and clean and the roots should 

 be cut off above the break. It will only take a minute 

 to examine each plant before it is actually set and 

 to cut off broken roots and any suckers in which 

 growth may have started. 



The thing to be most carefully considered, and 

 most important in planting roses, is to dig a hole 

 about eighteen inches deep, the center of which is 

 approximately the center of the mark for the rose. 

 The earth should be taken out with a spade from 

 this hole and, before finally placing the earth in it, 

 two things should be carefully noted: that the 

 roots spread out at the bottom and do not cross one 

 another. The more you spread out your roots the 

 more sustenance the plant will get, and the more 

 room there will be for the little fibrous roots. It is 

 particularly difficult to spread out the roots of pot- 

 grown plants, as they become curled in the pots; 

 and this is one reason why pot-grown plants are 

 not recommended. The other important point is 

 that the bud, i.e., the point at which the variety has 

 been budded to the stock, which you will easily 

 note, should be at a certain given distance below 



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