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branches and shoots. Gather the “ hips,” or berries, of any desirable 
varieties for seed, as soon as ripe. Look to those roses budded on 
stocks in pots. 
At the North , all tender kinds, growing in open ground, should be 
taken up and potted, and hardy roses may be successfully trans¬ 
planted the last of this month. 
Hobemluc. 
This is the best month in the year, if the weather is dry and open, 
for planting out the garden sorts of rose trees and bushes; therefore, 
all removals should be performed as soon as convenient, according to 
the plan pointed out in the foregoing treatise. The leaves of all the 
garden sorts are falling, or have fallen. Some of the perpetuals, and 
the China and hybrid kinds, are, in mild autumns, still growing, and 
perhaps blooming. Such must not be touched till the leaves have 
turned yellow, or have dropped ; but in all other cases, where the 
leaves have faded, the removal is kindly and beneficially done. Stocks 
may be procured and planted, and if the permanent planting cannot, 
for any particular reasons, be done now, they must be temporarily 
planted or laid in the earth, in a sloping direction, and the roots well 
covered with mould, which must also be well shook in among the 
roots and fibres. Cuttings may still be made of the smooth-wooded 
kinds, and placed close together in pots of mould, with half an inch 
thickness of sand at the top. These pots must not be allowed to dry, 
but may be put in a pit or greenhouse, or plunged under a hand 
glass in the border, which will answer for covering them well from 
frost. 
In all situations subject to frosts, throw light litter, as pea vines, 
pine boughs, or straw, over the beds containing tender varieties, at 
night; and if there happen to be frost, do not remove the litter during 
the day. Continue to gather ripe berries, or hips, as directed last 
month. Cut out the weak shoots from the seedlings, leaving only the 
robust and strong ones on the plant, except such as are intended for 
buds in the spring. 
At the North , tender roses should all be taken up this month. Per¬ 
petuals and Bourbons, in the open ground, if in a well-drained situa¬ 
tion, with a little covering, will stand ':he winter without injury. 
