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branches and shoots. G-ather the "hips," or berries, of any desirable 

 varieties for seed, as soon as ripe. Look to those roses budded on 

 stocks in pots. 



At the North, all tender kinds, growing in open ground, should be 

 taker.- up and potted, and hardy roses may be successfully trans- 

 planted the last of this month. 



Wobemfoer. 



This is the best month in the year, if the weather is dry and open, 

 for planting out the garden sorts of rose trees and bushes ; therefore, 

 all removals should be performed as soon as convenient, according to 

 the plan pointed out in the foregoing treatise. The leaves of all the 

 garden sorts are falling, or have fallen. Some of the perpetuals, and 

 the China and hybrid kinds, are, in mild autumns, still growing, and 

 perhaps blooming. Such must not be touched till the leaves have 

 turned yellow, or have dropped ; but in all other cases, where the 

 leaves have faded, the removal is kindly and beneficially done. Stocks 

 may be procured and planted, and if the permanent planting cannot, 

 for any particular reasons, be done now, they must be temporarily 

 planted or laid in the earth, in a sloping direction, and the roots well 

 covered with mould, which must also be well shook in among the 

 roots and fibres. Cuttings may still be made of the smooth- wooded 

 kinds, and placed close together in pots of mould, with half an inch 

 thickness of sand at the top. These pots must not be allowed to dry, 

 but may be put in a pit or greenhouse, or plunged under a hand 

 glass in the border, which will answer for covering them well from 

 frost. 



In all situations subject to frosts, throw light litter, as pea vines, 

 pine boughs, or straw, over the beds containing tender varieties, at 

 night ; and if there happen to be frost, do not relnove the litter during 

 the day. Continue to gather ripe berries, or hips, as directed last 

 month. Cut out the weak shoots from the seedlings, leaving only the 

 robust and strong ones on the plant, except such as are intended for 

 buds in the spring. 



At the North, tender roses should all be taken up this month. Per- 

 petuals and Bourbons, in the open ground, if in a well-drained situa- 

 tion, with a little covering, will stand "he winter without injury. 



