152 THE ROSE BOOK 



and roses budded on this flower better in the autumn 

 than roses on the brier cutting. Half-standards should 

 be grown of the Tea-scented roses and some of the 

 Hybrid Teas. I prefer half-standards to full standards 

 as being more readily protected, and shades to pre- 

 serve the blossoms are more easily placed over 

 them. 



In planting out the roses place them in lines three 

 feet apart. This enables one to cultivate the soil well, 

 an important detail in rose growing for exhibition. 

 Perhaps I need hardly say that the rose delights in a 

 good clayey loam. If, however, his soil happens to be 

 rather sandy, the reader would be weU advised to grow 

 chiefly the true Tea-scented roses, and where the soil 

 is of a very poor description there is nothing for it but 

 to import some good turfy loam. 



Plant early — from mid-October to the end of Novem- 

 ber. Give the plants plenty of room, although the 

 system of hard pruning enables the grower to plant 

 more closely than if he were growing for garden decora- 

 tion only. Let them be two feet apart in the rows, 

 though the less vigorous varieties need be only eighteen 

 inches apart. 



A visitor to an exhibitor's garden in March would 

 wonder where the roses were to come from, for he would 

 scarcely be able to see the plants, so hard are they 

 pruned. Most exhibitors cut out all old wood, and 

 rely upon that of the previous year, cutting this down 

 to two or three buds. Not more than two or three 

 blooms from a plant should be expected, the object 



