38 PLANTING OF THE ROSE. 



tlie soil has worked well between the roots, when it may be trodden 

 in as mentioned before. 



Dwarf plants there is no difficulty in planting, but you must be 

 careful to keep the crown of the root near the surface of the ground, 

 the treading in of all fair and solid being a necessary operation with aU 

 the kinds of plants. With the standard sorts you should drive stake^s 

 into the ground pretty firmly, and fasten the stems of the roses to 

 them, to prevent the wind fi?om removing them; as when your roots 

 have been once firmly trodden in, you cannot move a tree one way 

 nor the other without breaking the fine fibres, and thus lessening the 

 capacity of the root to carry strength to the head. If you are plant- 

 ing a group of standard roses, you should place the highest in the cen- 

 tre, and the lower ones nearer the outside ; in fact, a handsome clump 

 of roses might have six-foot standards in the middle, four feet six inches 

 in the next row, three-foot ones nearer the front, and eighteen-inch 

 ones outside ; these, jf at proper distances, and with picked sorts, of 

 something near the same habit of growth, will form a superb mountain 

 of roses in the proper season. 



Eows of Standard Eoses may be planted with advantage on each 

 side of a coach road, in a park, or on both sides of a path on a lawn, 

 but at proper distances, so that each shall form a specific object in 

 itself, as well as a portion of a row of rose trees. Eoses also form very 

 beautiful objects planted in isolated situations on lawns, and especially 

 when the sort of rose is distinct from others, or blooms at difierent 

 periods ; for whatever forms a portion should be of a similar habit to 

 the rest of the whole. Thus, if a particular walk in a garden or shrub- 

 bery were bounded by two rows of roses, they should all flower at 

 once. If a clump of roses is planted, they should flower at one season. 

 A mixture of spring, summer, and autumn roses would be very bad ; 

 tlie place never looks right ; therefore some pains must be taken to 

 keep all those which flower at the same period of the year together. 

 One portion of the garden may then be always garnished with roaes, 

 and it is far better than having them straggUng about, with here and 

 there a flowerless one among those in bloom, or a blooming one among 

 those not in flower. 



Planting of roses which are on their own bottoms, or worked low 

 down for dwarfs, or for climbers where flowering wood is always 

 wanted from the ground, (differs in nowise from any other planting 



