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boughs to hold the snow and prevent 

 freezing and thawing in the spring. It 

 will also protect them from the early 

 March sun, as it often is due to the sun 

 that your plants kill out and not to the 

 hard winter as is sometimes thoughi. 



Climbing plants, such as roses, cle- 

 matis, ampelopsis, and others, that you 

 do not wish to take off your walls and 

 fences during the winter will be bene- 

 fited by a covering of spruce or cedar 

 boughs, matting, or coarse canvas for 

 protection against the March sun. A 

 few forkfuls of long, strawy manure or 

 leaves placed around the roots and a 

 spadeful or two of earth, to keep them 

 in position, will be of benefit. 



Tender border plants, such as holly- 

 hocks, Shasta Daisy, pinks, Canterbury 

 Bells, and others, can be given a cover- 

 ing of brush, which will be better than 

 manure or any other solid covering, as 

 the latter is liable to freeze and form ice 

 around your plant, excluding the air. 

 This eventually would cause it to rot 

 and die. Bush roses and slender shrubs 

 should be treated to the brush covering 

 if it can be obtained and for the same 

 reason. 



Strawberries that have not been mulch- 

 ed should be given a covering at once. 

 Use good, clean rye straw if possible. 



It will be well during December to 

 look over your vegetable stores. Much 



loss can often be prevented by remov- 

 ing any rot that may have co.Timenced. 

 Onions that have not been properly 

 ripened will have a tendency to grow. 

 This is hard to prevent. Such onions 

 can be used to good advantage by plac- 

 ing them in soil, growing them on and 

 using them as green onions. 



CARE OF THE LAWN 



This is the time to mulch your lawn. 

 Oive it a covering of good, rotten stable 

 manure, or better still, manure and soil 

 mixed. This covering must not be left 

 on after the growth begins in the spring 

 without raking. This should be done 

 two or three times as the weather per- 

 mits. This treatment will allow you to 

 leave most of it on the ground, taking 

 off only the stones, sticks or long straw 

 that may be in it. 



Prepare for spring by cleaning, sharp- 

 ening and repairing all garden tools, 

 overhauling your lawn mowers, and 

 giving them all an application of oil to 

 prevent rusting. Make out a list of tools 

 required and see that they are all in their 

 place so that in the spring you will not 

 be delayed in your work. Having this 

 done now will often ensure a better and 

 earlier start in the spring as a great 

 deal of time is taken up looking for, re- 

 pairing and replacing tools, which could 

 be otherwise given to the cultivation of 

 your garden.. 



Rose Growing a Delightful Occupation* 



W. G. MacKendrick, President Toronto Horticultural Society, Toronto, Ont. 



TH R rose, the national flower or Eng- 

 land, has thousands of named var- 

 ieties in commerce. Roses of vari- 

 ous kinds are found the world over. 

 Many of the choice varieties grown come 

 from far away India and Japan, and one 

 can see various wild roses in our own 

 favored land, from Vancouver in the 

 west to Halifax in the east, and from 

 Edmonton in the north to the most 

 southern point in Ontario. 



Where roses grow in their wild state, 

 cultivated ro.ses will also grow, and I 

 am optimist enough to believe that per- 

 haps in my lifetime, dozens of our cities, 

 towns and villages will be as fragrant 

 with the sweet perfume of the Queen of 

 Flowers as are the towns and villages in 

 England each June, and throughout the 

 summer. 



HOW TO DO IT 

 The rose fever is as catching as the 

 measles, the mumps or some of the other 

 ailments which flourish in Ontario, and 

 I would that I had the power to inocu- 

 late each of you with a touch of it, be- 

 cau.se once caught, like the old-fashioned 

 ague, it is hard to shake off. If each of 

 you in your gardens had a bed of a few 

 dozen hybrid tea roses, which would 



•An extract from a paper read at the annual 

 convention of the Ontario Horticultural ABBOcia 

 tion held in Toronto. Ont.. November 17, 18, 1910. 



bloom from June until November, you 

 would inoculate your circle of friends and 

 neighbors with the laudable desire to 

 do likewise, and the ball once started 

 would, like the endless chain, continue 

 forever. 



USES FOR THE ROSE 



Roses can be used for general garden 

 cultivation and should be placed in beds 



(about forty inches wide) by themselves, 

 and not mixed with herbaceous plants, 

 shrubs or trees. Some of the dwarf 

 polyanthus make ideal bedding roses as 

 a border in front of the higher varieties. 

 They can be used as tall six feet weeping 

 standards, though in Ontario these have 

 to be bound in earth to come through our 

 severe winters. 



Different varieties of the climbers can 

 be grown on north, south, east and west 

 walls or fences. They can be grown as 

 dwarf or tall pillars. They can be grown 

 for covering pergolas. The Wichuri- 

 anas make an ideal covering for unsight- 

 ly banks. They can be grown pegged 

 down or bent over in semi-circles. Many 

 of the varieties will make a splendid 

 dwarf or tall hedge. Many roses make 

 handsome bushes when grown on a lawn 

 separately. They can also be grown m 

 pots or in greenhouses for buttonholes 

 or table decoration. In short, one can 

 hardly desire to grow a flower in a posi- 

 tion where a suitable rose cannot be used 

 or found for it. 



WHAT TO GROW 



At our summer home on Toronto Is- 

 land where the soil in our rose beds is 

 quite unsuitable to get the best results 

 in rose culture, we are experimenting 

 with about seven hundred roses; sixsy- 

 five named climbing roses; about two 

 hundred named Hybrid Teas ; thirty 

 Hybrid Remontant, and about thirty 

 odds and ends such as Rugosa, Polya.i- 

 thus Teas, Chinas, Sweet Briars, and 

 others. 



HYBRID RHEMONTANT 



The name Hybrid Remontant r-ieans 

 that they bloom a second time 'or once 

 more). This class is usually termed Hy- 

 brid Perpetual, but they are not perpet- 

 ual bloomers like the Hybrid Teas, Teas 

 and Polyanthus, and the term is mislead- 

 ing and I think should not be used by 

 growers. This is the class of rose usu- 

 ally grown in Ontario because it is 



Tkc Flowtr Bed ami Lawn oi a Pre>colt Coiml; (Ont.) Farmer, G. 0. Mode, Prctident Vauklcck Hill Hort. Societj 



This Hower bed contaiu8 over 100 choice rose busheu of several differ'.3nt varieties. 



