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PLANTING OF THE ROSE. 
the 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 all 
the kinds of plants. With the standard sorts you should drive stakes 
into the ground pretty firmly, and fasten the stems of the roses to 
them, to prevent the wind from 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, if 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. 
Rows of Standard Roses 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. Roses 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 different 
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 ; 
the 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 roses, 
and it is far better than having them straggling 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 
van ted from tl 3 ground, differs in nowise from any other planting 
