WINTERING PLANTS 



be kept over winter in the cellar with any 

 certainty of success. Sometimes they will 

 survive, but this is the exception that proves 

 the rule against storing them there. Only 

 plants of deciduous or semi-deciduous char- 

 acter are adapted to cold storage. 



Tea Roses, and other tender members of 

 the rose family are better off in the cellar 

 in winter, than in the garden beds, even if 

 given the most elaborate protection. I would 

 lift these plants late in the season — not earlier 

 than November — and pack them closely in 

 boxes of sand. Make it very firm about their 

 roots. Give them a place in a cool corner, 

 away from the light. Slight freezing will not 

 injure them. In lifting them, do not shake 

 their roots out of the soil in which they have 

 been growing. Simply cut around them with 

 a sharp spade, raise them from the ground 

 carefully, and set the block of earth contain- 

 ing them into your box, filling in solidly 

 between them with sand. 



