. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. 198 GARDEN GUIDE. STRAW OR REED MATS It Is a fairly easy matter to manufacture a
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. 198 GARDEN GUIDE. STRAW OR REED MATS It Is a fairly easy matter to manufacture a good, stout reed mat or straw mat for protective purposes. A ball of stout cord and the necessary material for the mat; a little dexterity in binding these into bundles, and in twisting the cord, as shown in the drawing, is all that are necessary. These mats can be put to a dozen good discuss varieties for a time; then th^ question usually eirises: " What do you use for protecting your Roses? " " WeU," says one, " I believe that a protection for Roses should be merely a sunshade^ not an overcoat, so I just turn a box over the tops of the They always Winter as well that way as any ; " They really need some protection from the cold," says another, " and I think the only way to protect Roses is to moxmd up aU the teas and hybrid teas so that the soil is almost a foot deep all around ; The third gentleman says that the protection afforded by something placed on their stems, such as rye straw, is best, although paper is an excellent insulator against the cold. Climbers are well protected by laying them down and covering them with evergreens or wrapped in burlap. Any sort of frame packed with leaves is a trifle dangerous, for the leaves axe apt to ferment and cause the young shoots to,start prematurely. Many persons dig their teas each Fall and store in coldframes, which usually keeps them perfectly but is rather
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