OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



as much as you can. The best way to do this is to 

 add a few wheelbarrow loads of soil to the beds 

 after planting and make little mounds around each 

 plant, hilling them up as it were, and then covering 

 these with litter. If this is done the coarse litter 

 should be removed in the early spring and the fine 

 manure remaining should be forked carefully into 

 the bed, as this will be a good fertilizer during the 

 summer. In autumn planting you will generally 

 find that rose plants have been cut back to about a 

 foot from the ground, and if this is the case leave 

 them as they are. If, however, they have the long, 

 full growth they had when taken up or a large part 

 of it, cut back to a foot and a half. 



