NEW ROSE BEDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 15

NEW ROSE BEDS

Rose planting is done mostly in June and July, and gardeners who propose to make new beds this year should be busy preparing the plots. Rose beds should be well out in the open. Although it is advisable to choose a position which is sheltered from the worst winds, roses do not succeed as they should if planted under trees or in shade. >

Roses will grow in any wellmanured soil, but they will do much better if the ground is , properly trenched and has had a good proportion of good loamy soil incorporated with the lower spit where the roots will be kept cool and moist during the hot summer months.

A start now will give the beds a chance to settle down before planting takes place, which is necessary as roses require firm planting. Where new ground is being used for the beds a good supply of cow manure may be mixed with the-lower spit of soil with advantage and a dressing of bonedust —about three or four ounces per square yard—worked through the top soil.

Unlike some plants, roses respond to attention. Frequent forking of the soil round the bushes, systematic watering during hot, dry weather, and the removing of dead blooms and superfluous growths will do much to keep the plants in vigorous growth during the growing season and assist them to produce abundance of good blooms.

Top-dressing with well-decayed manure once or twice during the summer, lightly forking the manure in, will have very beneficial results.

Some roses are more or less delicate, and, unless the gardener is prepared to give the attention necessary, it is hardly worth while to grow such varieties, there being plenty which are quite as desirable and which require the minimum of care. It is well to send in orders to the nurseries early as there is always the risk of chosen varieties being sold out late in the season.

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