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let the pot be only one size larger each time. Do not repot roses in the 

 winter months, but rather give them a top-dressing if they seem at all 

 weak.— i!;'. T. C. 



Roses, Lifting^. By Lewis S. Pawle {Garden, No. 1781, p. 7 ; 

 January G, 1906). — My roses don't do well " is a remark often made to 

 me by many of my friends, although they have an ideal spot in which to 

 grow them. The reason, I find in a great many cases, is that the trees in 

 the first instance were badly planted, they are left in the same place year 

 after year, and in the autumn they receive a heavy mulching of wet, cold, 

 sticky manure round the roots, which turns the ground sour after several 

 applications, and deadly cold as well, half the summer having gone befo.e 

 the soil gets warm again. I went the other day to see a friend's roses 

 recently planted ; there they were, smothered with the nastiest, rankest, 

 coldest manure I have ever seen, and inches thick into the bargain. It 

 made me quite shudder to look at the poor things. No wonder they 

 " don't do." I am a great advocate for lifting roses, and putting the 

 manure underneath them instead of on top. I am quite sure if this were 

 more frequently done better results would follow. Every few years roses 

 should, in my opinion, be lifted, the beds thoroughly dug at least two 

 spits deep, and the manure put well below the surface. — E. T. C. 



Roses, Moss. By P. {Garden, No. 1787, p. 100 ; February 17, 1906). 

 It seems strange that such an interesting group of bush roses should receive 

 so little consideration. It cannot be that they are not valued, because a 

 common expression one hears at the exhibitions is " Where are the Moss 

 Roses ? Are they not grown now ? " ■ The fact is, the craze for perpetual- 

 flowering roses and the great advance in the hybrid teas have to some 

 extent crowded out the moss and other beautiful roses. For their 

 association alone there should be a bed or border of moss roses in every 

 garden. The plants should be on their own roots — that is, raised from 

 layers, a mode of propagation which admirably suits them. A few of the 

 freer-blooming sorts do well as standards or half standards, but the 

 majority should be grown in bush form. 



Moss roses pay for rich culture : that is to say, well-tilled ground and 

 manure freely applied. An open spot is essential, for if treated as 

 shrubbery roses green fly and other pests are troublesome. — E. T. C. 



Roses, Pruning- (Leading article in Garden, No. 1791, p. 158 ; 

 March 17, 1906). — A valuable and practical article, enumerating some 

 hundreds of varieties, and giving directions as to pruning them. — J^. T. C. 



Roses, Pruning-, The A B C of. By Edward Mawley {Garden, 

 No. 1792, p. 169 ; March 24, 1906). — In order to give the beginner greater 

 confidence in the recuperative power of well-planted roses than he usually 

 possesses, and make him less afraid of damaging his plants by following 

 even the very moderate system of pruning I am about to advocate, I may 

 state that, were a bed of such roses mown down level with the ground in 

 the spring, a very large majority of the plants would produce a good crop 

 of beautiful blooms during the following summer and autumn. In fact, 



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