. The beginner's garden book; a textbook for the upper grammar grades. Gardening. 216 THE BEGINNER'S GARDEN BOOK be protected in winter. Some gardeners, after bending the roses over carefully, cover them with dry earth, then with leaves or straw, making a cover that will shed rain and will not readily thaw out. Others tie up the roses in straw, and then mound the earth about the foot. Still others make little houses for their roses, usually out of old boxes, filling them with leaves. But none of this should be done until the ground is frozen, and the cover then should be removed in late March,
. The beginner's garden book; a textbook for the upper grammar grades. Gardening. 216 THE BEGINNER'S GARDEN BOOK be protected in winter. Some gardeners, after bending the roses over carefully, cover them with dry earth, then with leaves or straw, making a cover that will shed rain and will not readily thaw out. Others tie up the roses in straw, and then mound the earth about the foot. Still others make little houses for their roses, usually out of old boxes, filling them with leaves. But none of this should be done until the ground is frozen, and the cover then should be removed in late March, or when the frost is really leaving the ground. There are other classes of roses, but I will speak of only one more, which should be planted, at least in the North, only by those who so love roses that they are willing to work hard over them. These are the tea roses, which are very tender, but which grow very lovely blossoms in great quantity. They are: white, Bride; red, Papa Gontier; pink, Countess de Labarthe; and yellow, Perle des I do not advise trying to keep these tender tea roses in the ground over winter. In the fall cut them nearly to the ground, lift them, and store them away from frost in moist sand or earth. Keep them cool, plant them out when frosts are gone, and they should yield again. 1 Of course there are other kinds in all these classes. I merely name the best known. If a reliable florist, having none of them, recommends others in the same classes, there is no reason for not taking his Fig. 114. - Rosebushes wrapped in straw for the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original French, Allen, 1870-1946. New York, The Macmillan Co.
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