THE JOYOUS ART OF GARDENING 



the fact that roses have healthy appetites for germs, so that 

 the more rose-embowered the cottage the less typhoid. 



How Roses Should be Planted 



June is the time to admire roses rather than to plant them, 

 but it is the time of all others to plan a rose-garden. It needs 

 a bold and flighty imagination to see roses in one's garden in 

 January, but in June it is a very simple matter to know where 

 we would like to have a climbing rose. One can visit nurseries, 

 look over the fence at one's neighbor's garden, and decide in- 

 telligently what roses one must have and precisely where they 

 should go. Roses can be ordered at any time; the proper 

 time for planting is the orthodox shrub-planting time — late 

 October and November in the North, also early March. In 

 the South and in California February is the usual planting 

 month. 



First mark out the beds; if you make them wider than 

 four feet you will find them difficult to manage. Dig the bed 

 to the depth of at least two feet and a half; three feet is better 

 — some gardeners, when the soil is poor, have the beds no less 

 than four feet deep. Throw all the soil aside. If it is sandy 

 don't use it. Unless the subsoil be of gravel — in which case 

 the drainage problem is solved by Mother Nature — put in 

 the bottom a six-inch layer of broken stone. Then fill the 

 bed with good, heavy loam mixed with manure in the propor- 

 tion of one part of manure to six parts of soil (only well-rotted 

 manure should be used; the very best is cow maniu-e). The 

 soil and manure should be mixed very thoroughly. Hybrid 

 Tea-Roses will grow in a lighter, much more sandy soil than 

 Hybrid Perpetuals. 



Set the plants from eighteen inches to two feet apart; if 

 in rows it will be found more convenient to dig a trench eighteen 



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