110 KOSES THAT BLOOM THE WHOLE SEASON". 



weeks after tlie bed is prepared, the roses may be 

 planted. In tlie Southern States, this operation 

 can be performed in February and March, but 

 with us April and the early part of May is the 

 most proper season. If the bed is made in soil 

 retentive of water, it will require to have a drain 

 laid from it to keep the bottom dry, otherwise it 

 would be providing a basin of water for the plants, 

 which to them would prove " a bed of death" in 

 winter. The only shelter necessary here is a co- 

 vering of boards, glass, cedar branches, or straw ; 

 the latter, is a bad protection when exposed to 

 rain and snow, which causes mouldiness about the 

 plants, and even kills them ; where glass is not ac- 

 cessible, all that is required is a temporary and 

 movable frame or covering of boards, which must 

 be removed as soon as spring appears. Treated 

 thus, they will not receive any material injury in 

 this vicinity from our severest winters ; but to 

 the eastward, when there is no greenhouse, they 

 require to be kept in good substantial close frames; 

 this can readily be accomplished by lifting them 

 from the various parts of the garden and planting 

 them very compactly together, in the frame pro- 

 vided for them, about the middle of October ; if 

 the plants are taller than the frame will admit of, 

 lay them in an inclining position, what the gar- 



