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Gardening for Amateurs 



natural. The flowers also, having long 



are good for cutting purposes, but the stalks 



of Roses grown on pegged down shoots are 



Rose Madame Abel Chatenay (Hybrid Tea), 

 salmon pink, one of the finest garden sorts. 



generally too short for the blossoms to be 

 used in this way. As new growths develop 

 the old ones can be cut out, just as is done in 

 the. case of pegged down Roses, and the new 

 shoots, if strong and healthy, will often, if 

 the season be favourable, bear a number 

 of flowers late in the year, when they are 

 extremely welcome. 



Any long growths that it is desired to keep 

 unshortened, whether they are to be grown 

 as natural standards or in palmate form or 

 not, must be tied to a support of some sort, 

 otherwise strong winds will cause them to 

 lash about, doing harm to their neighbours 

 with their powerful thorns and loosening their 

 own roots. Often when blown about by the 

 wind, owing to the great leverage of the tall 

 shoots, a hole is made at the base of the plant, 

 which in heavy, clayey soil holds water. 

 This is not good for the bush, and if the water 

 becomes frozen it is still w r orse, as the water, 

 expanding into ice, pinches the bush in the 

 process and keeps it thoroughly chilled. 



Once we have got the Roses planted, and 

 have attended to such matters as are men- 



tioned above, there is little left for the 

 ordinary amateur to do beyond getting 

 things snug and tidy in preparation for 

 the coming winter. 



Indeed, if November and December be 

 very foggy or very wet, there remains little 

 to be done in the average garden beyond, 

 in the latter month, earthing up the Teas, 

 Xoisettes. and, if considered necessary, the 

 more tender of the Hybrid Teas. 



Protecting Roses. In a normal winter 

 the latter are safe without protection unless 

 on a wind-swept hillside or in some other 

 much exposed position. In performing 

 the work a quantity of fine soil should 

 be put over the crown, or centre, of 

 the plant, to a depth or height of from 

 4 to 6 inches, making a rather broad- 

 based hummock or hillock, and so cover- 

 ing a few inches of the branches. The 

 soil used should not be taken from the im- 

 mediate neighbourhood of the plant dealt 



Tea Rose White Maman Cochet, a favourite 

 for exhibition. 



with, for fear of uncovering or injuring some 

 of its roots. It is safer to bring the soil in 

 barrow loads from another part of the garden, 



