Amateur gardencraft; a book for the home-maker and garden lover . raighlened out, fill in about them withfine soil, and firm it down well, and then add twoor three inches more of soil, after which at leasta pailful of water should be applied to each plant,to thoroughly settle the soil between and aboutthe roots. Avoid loose planting if you want yourplants to get a good start, and do well. Whenall the soil has been returned to the hole, add amulch of coarse manure to prevent too rapidevaporation of moisture while the plants are put-ting forth new feeding roots. If large-rooted plants are procur
Amateur gardencraft; a book for the home-maker and garden lover . raighlened out, fill in about them withfine soil, and firm it down well, and then add twoor three inches more of soil, after which at leasta pailful of water should be applied to each plant,to thoroughly settle the soil between and aboutthe roots. Avoid loose planting if you want yourplants to get a good start, and do well. Whenall the soil has been returned to the hole, add amulch of coarse manure to prevent too rapidevaporation of moisture while the plants are put-ting forth new feeding roots. If large-rooted plants are procured from thenursery, quite likely some of the larger roots willbe injured by the spade in lifting them from therow. Look over these roots carefully, and cutoff the ends of all that have been bruised, beforeplanting. A smooth cut will heal readily, buta ragged one will not. We have several classes or divisions of Rosesadapted to culture at the north. The June Rosesare those which give a bountiful crop of flowersat the beginning of summer, but none thereafter. 143. THE ROSE This class includes the Provence, the Mosses, theScotch and Austrian kinds, Harrisons Yellow,Madame Plantier, and the climbers. The Hybrid Perpetuals bloom profusely inearly summer, and sparingly thereafter, at in-tervals, until the coming of cold weather. Theseare, in many respects, the most beautiful of allRoses. The ever-bloomers are made up of Bengal,Bourbon, Tea and Noisette varieties. These aresmall in habit of growth, but exquisitely beauti-ful in form and color, and most kinds are so de-lightfully fragrant, and flower so freely fromJune to the coming of cold weather, that no gar-den should be without a bed of them. The Rugosa Roses are more valuable as shrubsthan as flowering plants, though their large,bright, single flowers are extremely chief attraction is their beautifullycrinkled foliage, of a rich green, and their brightcrimson fruit which is retained throughout theseason. This cla
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