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Roses it is needful to lift, &c. If orders are 

 sent in early the plants are generally received 

 in good time and planting may be done when- 

 ever the weather is favourable. Should the 

 weather be wet and inclement the plants can 

 be laid in the soil temporarily and will take 

 no harm, especially if 

 most of the foliage Ik' 

 snipped off first. The 

 weather in England is 

 seldom so continuously 

 bad that there are no 

 pleasant intervals, and 

 those who have the Roses 

 ready to hand can take 

 advantage of these inter- 

 vals as they occur, if only 

 t-> plant a few Roses at 

 a time. 



'' Heeling in " is dig- 

 ging a trench 6 or 8 

 inches in depth, laying 

 the roots of the Roses 

 therein, and then cover- 

 ing them with a few 

 inches of soil. It is im- 

 portant, however, to see 

 that the Roses are 

 labelled with good, legibly 

 u nt ten or printed labels, 

 securely tied on, and that 

 the plants are put suffi- 

 cient Iv far apart in the 

 trench so that one can 

 be removed without up- 

 setting the others. If 

 [H.ssihlc. it is, of course, 

 letter to put them in the 

 trench in the order in 

 which they will be needed 

 later on. When remov- 

 ing the plants from the 

 trench be careful to in- 

 sert the spade or fork 

 at a considerable distance away in the first 

 instance, otherwise roots are easily damaged 

 or cut off. A fork is the best implement to 

 use for this purpose. 



Autumn Pruning. In November it is 

 better to cut about one-third, not more, from 

 the extra long growths on the bush Roses 

 when it is not intended to make these into 

 " natural standards," or to grow them on 



bamboo canes or other supports in palmate 

 form. If the tall growths of certain Roses, 

 such as Hugh Dickson, Ben Cant, Frau 

 Karl Druschki, Dr. Andry, J. B. Clark, to 

 name only a few, be retained full length in 

 the form mentioned and be pruned only a 



Rose Alice Roosevelt (Hybrid Tea), an excellent variety, carmine, 

 pink and salmon. 



few inches at the proper time in the 

 spring, they generally do extremely \vell. 

 the blossoms being particularly largo and 

 fine, and if the cutting out of shoots that 

 have blossomed be attended to there is a 

 long and rich display, often continuing into 

 late autumn. Where this system can be 

 adopted it is thought by some to be better 

 than " pegging down," and is certainly more 



