The Englijh Gardner . 5 2 
three main ftandards from a root,only cutting the tops ofthem 
once a year, any time from the time they have done bearing 
until February y alfo you are to take up all fuch fuckers as 
run too extravagantly about, which you may Plant in other 
places as occafion ferves,only referving here and there one,as 
a fupply in cafe any of your ftandards grow old and do not 
bear fo well or fo fair Rofes as formerly, the which you may 
cut away and mantain the young in its room, and fo lave a 
new planting, but in cafe your Roles be of any long {landing, 
and decay through the proverty of the ground,then you are 
to new dig your borders, and fupply them with fome very 
rotten dung or good earth, and new cut fuch rootsas you 
meet within your digging, not forgetting to cut out all the 
dead and decayed branches, maintaining only what is likely 
and thriving 5 this thorow digging and renewing ought to 
be done any timein the Winter,until the end of February: 
take notice that damask rofes efpecially require a free and 
open air, the want whereof is the reafbn why they bear no 
better in and very near Loudon, only Province Roles do very' 1 
well, neither do damask Rofes bear very well in clofo grounds 
much over-hung with Trees, although in the Country 5 the 
foafon for cutting your Rofes is as I laid, fo foon as they 
have done bearing, or any time to the end of February and 
of fome only in fome of the twelve days, and fome only iti 
February, but who fo cuts in any of the other foafons {hall 
not err in it 3 they that cut in February, do it that their 
Rofes may not be too forward and apt to be fpoiled by froft, 
but I believe there is more 3 roles Ipoiled by drowth then by 
Froft 5 know alio, that Roles willadmit to be cut pretty near 
without any prejudice to their bearing, and they will bear 
pretty well where they are not cut at all, if any can abide 
their cumberfomeand unhandfome growing. 
Now the means whereby Roles do often flower out of 
their natural foafon (belides that Role which is call’d the 
monthly Rofo, which as I laid before will be budding and 
bearing from the time that other Rofes blow until the Win¬ 
ter, 
