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Mr. Underwood. Mr. Gould is the premium rose man of the 

 country, and I would ask what h^ covers them with? 



Mr. Gould. Well, I cover the most of my roses with sods and 

 earth. But in covering with sods it is not safe to put the grass 

 side down on the rose bush; I have found out that much by ex- 

 perience. There is a good deal of an inclination to heat in the 

 grass, and perhaps, too, a large proportion will be green and a 

 portion will be dry; when there is quite an accumulation, it gets 

 up too much of a heating process for the plant's good, so I would 

 advise to put the earth side of the sod down on the bush or on 

 the plant, and the grass up the same as it grew. I have covered 

 with leaves also. I have taken a good deal of pains to cover 

 roses, the tender kinds, the teas, with dry leaves, and have made 

 a sort of a roof that comes up to apeak and slopes down like the 

 roof of a house. I fill this with leaves and press them together so 

 as to have that as solid and full of leaves as possible. It is 

 considerable trouble to do that where one has a good many of 

 them. They must be left till late in the season — until the tenth 

 or fifteenth of November the past year. Have known people 

 that covered earlier that didn't have any roses the following 

 year. 



On motion of Mr. Gray the following committee was appointed 

 to select and recommend a list of roses for general cultivation, to- 

 wit. : Mrs. E. J. Stager, Mrs. Anna B. Underwood and F. G. 

 Gould. 



Subsequently the committee presented the following report: 



EEPORT OF COMMITTEE. 



In submitting the following list of roses your committee do so 

 with the remark (in the way of explanation) that our aim in 

 this work has been to make a list not too long, but to include 

 enough of such sorts as would embrace the most pronounced 

 shades of color with some of the intermediate shades, having in 

 mind the importance of the selection of such as have the most 

 desirable qualities, as beautiful color, form, fragrance, freedom 

 of bloom, good constitution, and permanent shade, etc. We 

 can scarcely expect all the good qualities concentrated in an in- 

 dividual variety of any class. Consequently, some are left out 

 that are as beautiful, and perhaps more so, than any in the list on 



