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ready above, treading them firmly about the roots. After planting tie each Standard 

 to a stake, to secure it from the action of the wind, and the operation is finished. 

 Be it remarked that planting deep causes Roses to throw suckers ; if the top of the 

 roots is from four to six inches under the ground in strong moist soils it is quite 

 enough ; they should be set two or three inches deeper in light dry soils. 



The tender varieties of Tea-scented, Chinese, Noisette, and Lawrenceana Roses 

 should never be planted in the autumn. Let the beds or places which they are 

 intended to fill remain open till spring, putting the plants carefully away for the 

 winter under a north or west wall or hedge. The plants of these groups are some- 

 times small and delicate, and if put into the ground in autumn they often suffer 

 greatly from the winter's frost. But plant them in spring : if they are a year old, in 

 April; if younger, in May or June ; and they have the growing season before them: 

 they get a firm hold of the ground by winter, and are more gradually hardened to, 

 and better capable of supporting, the changes and severities of that season. 



It is important that the ground be in good working order at the time of planting, 

 for on this depends greatly the measure of success. If it be wet, it hangs to the 

 spade and to the heels of the operator, and prevents him from doing his work well. 

 But worse than this, the moving of ground when wet causes the particles to combine 

 too closely ; the soil becomes close and dead, and if thrown about the roots of a 

 tree in this state is unfavourable to early and vigorous rooting. Choose, then, a dry 

 time, when the earth bounds clean and free from the spade ; and if subsequent dry 

 weather points out the necessity of using the watering-pot, by all means do so : far 

 better this, than to plant when the ground is in bad order. 



It seems desirable here to say a few words with regard to EVER-BLOOMING ROSES 

 for general garden decoration. There has arisen recently a new race of Roses between 

 the Chinese, Tea-scented, and Hybrid Perpetual, variously hybridised, two of the most 

 important of which (Corallina and Sulphurea) originated at Waltham Cross. These 

 may be had constantly in bloom. If a judicious selection of varieties be made (see 

 page 86) it is only necessary to keep them growing and you keep them blooming, for 

 every eye or leaf-bud that pushes into a branch produces a flower or flowers. In the 

 cultivation of Ever-blooming Roses it is a point of the first importance to avoid 

 drought. Absence of moisture in the soil arrests growth, and without growth there 

 can be no flowers. Watering in dry weather is therefore indispensable. 



The Riviera Roses stand in the opinion of some as the truest representatives of 

 these Ever-blooming varieties, but the profusion and constancy of the Riviera Roses 

 is due to the climate, soil, and system of cultivation rather than to the varieties. I 

 have seen the Roses there at their best more than once, and could find very few 

 differing from the sorts grown in England, and while the profusion of branches and 

 flowers is overwhelming in its appeal to the eye and mind, I conceive that we could 

 only realise the same conditions in England by bringing the "Riviera" soil and 



