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The soils were rather light in character and certainly not very 

 suitable for roses. They contained plentiful supplies of vegetable 

 matter, but the contents of lime were small, and it will be observed 

 that in each case there was quite twice as much magnesia as there 

 was lime. I have previously referred to the significance of this fact, 

 and have little doubt that it had to do here with the failure. In such 

 cases I consider that the liberal application of lime is a necessity. 



