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scholars should obtain the stocks from the hedgerows in late 

 October or November. Any clean-growing young briars with a 

 good root system will do. A few of these should be brought 

 into the garden and planted in rows, leaving a space of one to 

 one and a half feet all round each stock. The operation of bud- 

 ding is carried out, as in the case of the Apple, at the beginning 

 of August. For Dwarf Roses (and these are more suitable for 

 practice than standards) the surface soil is scraped away from 

 the base of the stock, in order that the bud may be inserted as 

 low down as possible on the stem, thus diminishing the possi- 

 bility of the production of suckers. The bud having been taken 

 and inserted, nothing more remains to be done except to release, 

 at the end of a month, the bast or worsted thread used to keep 

 the bud in position. In March following the stock is cut off 

 at a joint two or three inches above that from which the inserted 

 bud is now growing. In the October following the bushes are 

 transferred to their permanent quarters. A hole is dug one foot 

 in diameter and one foot deep, and into the bottom of this is 

 worked some well-decayed leaf-mould and dung. In this the 

 Rose is placed at such a depth that the roots are within two inches 

 of the surface. 



Roses of one kind or another may be grown on almost any 

 soil except a very raw heavy clay. That they will grow and 

 bloom well on a thin sandy soil is evidenced by the fine dis- 

 play of Roses which may be seen in the summer in the gardens 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley. On such a 

 soil, however, cow dung and loam must be well worked into 

 the soil around the Rose bush, as Roses are " heavy feeders," 

 and the bushes must be mulched each year with the same 

 manure. 



For bushes, plant Edith Gifford, Caroline Testout, Madame 

 Fernet Ducher ; for arches and walls, William Allan Richardson, 

 Crimson Rambler, Dorothy Perkins. 



SWEET PEAS 



In a school garden not provided with a greenhouse or frame, 

 Sweet Peas may be sown during March, April, and May for a 



