2/4 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES 



should be left a while to make the running — i.e, 

 draw up the sap. 



See to your stakes when the stormy winds do 

 blow, and towards the end of the month dig in the 

 manure left about the newly-planted Rose-trees and 

 Briers. 



April 



Prune Tea-scented, Noisette, and Bourbon Roses, 

 observing the previous rule — that is, cutting very 

 abstemiously when the growth is vigorous, as with 

 Marechal Niel, Belle Lyonnaise, Gloire de Dijon, 

 Climbing Devoniensis, and Souvenir d'un Ami. 



Cut in the budded laterals on the Briers close to 

 the bud, and take away all suckers and fresh growth 

 iipon the Brier itself Have your stakes firmly driven 

 into the ground by the side of each stock, and rising 

 about two feet above it. Watch the growth of the 

 bud, securing the young, tender shoot with bast to 

 the stake, so that it may be safe against sudden 

 gusts, and look out at the same time for the grub. 

 For now 



* Read, ye who run, the awful truth, 

 With which I charge my page, — 

 A worm is in the bud ' 



of the Roses, and towards the end of this month 



