342 THE BOOK OF THE ROSE chap. 



trouble about a thing should reap some benefit from 

 it. In ordering Standards, do not forget that unless 

 you ask for " Half- Standards " you may get stems 

 4 or 5 feet high. If new beds are to be made or 

 planting on an extensive scale is to be undertaken, 

 preparations should have commenced even in 

 September, in procuring fresh soil and digging the 

 beds out to the depth of two feet. It should be 

 pushed on at any rate early in October. Pot Hoses 

 for growing under glass should now be repotted. 

 Many of the free-blooming Teas, now covered with 

 buds, will open them indoors at a time when they 

 will be much appreciated. But beware of too much 

 heat when the amount of daylight is small. This is 

 the month for taking cuttings out of doors : those of 

 the Roses themselves do better if the leaves have 

 not fallen, and these, if used at all, had better be 

 taken first. Manetti and briar cuttings will do as 

 well without the leaves. All extra long shoots of 

 Eoses should now be shortened sufficiently to 

 diminish the wind leverage on the roots ; these 

 pieces may be used as cuttings. Towards the end 

 of the month a commencement in planting may be 

 made with those Hoses which have simply to be 

 moved from one part of the garden to the other. 

 Such may be planted before their leaves have fallen, 

 much care being taken that their roots are exposed 

 as little as possible ; they should be watered and 

 syringed immediately after planting, and will probably 

 do better thus than if moved later. About the middle 

 of the month fresh cuttings may be taken of briar 

 and manetti, and later the rooted cutting and seed- 

 ling stocks may be planted out, but standard stocks 

 will not be ready yet. 



