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it is once known. In the winter the plants should be lightly covered. 

 There are new pansies advertised every year, but any one growing them 

 carefully, and taking, as we say, the seed from the best every year, will • 

 be as likely as anybody to have large, new kinds, and will thus save 

 the expense of purchasing them, which, at most, last only for a single 

 blooming. — Planted' and Stockman. 



PROTECTING ROSES IN WINTER. 



My rose plants are in straight rows, four feet apart, and three feet 

 apart in the rows. Before it is time to cover them for winter (which is 

 usually from the 10th to the 15th of November), and while the plants 

 are free from trost, I bend them down near the ground in the direction 

 of the rows and fasten them there. I then place a row of boards 

 about eighteen inches wide (mine were made of three six inches wide 

 fence boards) on each side of the rows, and nine or ten inches from 

 the plants, thus, | | and let them stand until I wish to close them for 

 winter. I have a lot of leaves gathered and in a dry place, and after 

 the ground has become frozen and winter liable to set in, I put a good 

 body of the dry leaves on the plants, and bring the tops of the side- 

 boards together thu*, j^. I then throw some cow manure between the 

 rows, to be worked in in the spring; but before putting on the manure 

 I throw a little dirt on the lower edges of the boards, then close up 

 the ends of the rows with boards or dirt and all will be well. If I tear 

 danger from mice I put some poisoned meal into an old fruit can, and 

 place it on its side among the plants. My roses are planted where the 

 snow does not blow off, hut drifts over them more or less, which of it- 

 self is a great protection. In the spring, before it is time to remove 

 the covering fully, I open the boards at the top, giving the plants air \ 

 but should a cold spell occur, it is but a few moments' work to close 

 the tops of the boards again, when all is safe. Oared for in this way, 

 I hardly ever lose a plant, and they come out in the spring looking as 

 fresh and green as when put to bed in the fall. 



M. L. HiGQiNS, Minneapolis, Minn. 



HANGING BASKETS. 



There are a great many positions, both in greenhouse and parlor^ 

 where hanging baskets make beautiful ornaments. How attractive a 

 hanging basket looks suspended from the centre of a large window, 

 when well filled with good healthy plants and vines drooping over the 

 edge. Not only is it enjoyable to the occupants of the house, but 

 from the outside it betokens love and comfort within. A few hanging 



