36 THE BOOK OF THE ROSE chap. 



get more than their share of frost as well as of 

 water. 



In dealing with situation, I do not allude to 

 different parts of England, though it is well known 

 that Marechal Niel cannot be successfully grown 

 out of doors in Yorkshire, while in some parts of 

 Devonshire and Cornwall even sub-tropical plants 

 will live through the winter. I am not sup- 

 posing that the Eosarian can choose his county for 

 Rose growing : if he could, for combination of 

 climate and soil Herefordshire would probably 

 make a strong bid for the pride of place, at all 

 events for H.P.s. Teas, which depend less upon 

 actual fatness of earth and more upon dryness in 

 atmosphere and soil, may probably in favoured 

 situations be easier "grown in the Eastern Counties. 

 If a man has only his own grounds wherein to 

 choose a spot for his Roses, let the highest spot be 

 chosen, if it be not the actual bare cone at the top 

 of a hill. A little height will make more difference 

 than one would suppose ; and if on a slope, let 

 Teas be planted at the top. 



2. Sheltee. — Exposure to strong winds is very 

 hurtful to Roses in the flowering season, and at 

 such a time an exhibitor will be more distressed by 

 a gale of wind than by a storm of rain. Anything 

 that rubs or chafes against a petal will injure and 

 spoil it ; and to tie every bud up so that nothing 

 can possibly touch it is, among a large number, 

 almost an impossibility. But wind may, and often 

 does, do much more harm than spoiling the blooms: 

 the newly budded shoots of " maidens " are sure to 

 be blown right out of the stocks as soon as they 



