ROSE PLANTING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCV, Issue 10918, 28 March 1896, Page 2

ROSE PLANTING.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— lt is seldom any of our leading rose-growers favour us with such an interesting and instructive article as that which appeared under the above heading in your issue of Thursday last. Mr Nairn’s remarks generally, I think, will commend themselyes to any thoughtful reader. There is no denying the fact, as he points out', that planting is one of the most important operations in connection with successful rose growing, but I do not think Mr Nairn made himself sufficiently clear when dealing with the actual planting of the rose. For instance, he says —“ But if the plant is placed in the ground with the junction of the scion and stock some two inches below the surface, the moisture in the soil will enable the stock to swell, and allow free circulation of the sap.” Now, this may be quite correct when we have plants with comparatively short stems, but it often happens, when purchasing a dozen roses, we imd the stock twelve or fourteen inches long, and to plant these as deep as Mr Nairn suggests would be a decided mistake, and, in my humble opinion, would not in any way conduce to “ the future health and well-doing of the roses.” —I am. &c., NOVICE.