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But between these two extremes of plants that need no 

 protection and plants that cannot be protected there is a large 

 class that will richly repay a little care. 



The best way to protect raspberries has been often 

 described, but possibly there are some here for whose benefit 

 it may be repeated. After the old canes and all but five or 

 six of the new ones have been cleaned out, take out with 

 a digging- fork a little earth from one side of the roots, then 

 loosening the roots on the other side also a little with the 

 fork, bend the canes gently over till the tips reach the 

 ground, take care to do the bending as much as possible in 

 the roots so that the canes need not be bent sharply over and 

 broken. Have a boy to hold down the canes while you place 

 a few shovelfuls of earth on them to hold them in position. 

 Even for the tender or half hardy kinds like Golden Queen 

 and Cuthbert it is not necessary to cover the whole plant 

 with soil. All that is needed is to cover it partially so that 

 it will get the protection of the snow during the winter. 

 The work is very easily and quickly done, a man and a boy 

 can lay down snugly a long row in a very short time and it is 

 a great pity to run the risk of losing a part or the whole of 

 the next season's crop for want of a few hours' work. 



For roses the plan is very much the same only that more 

 pains are taken. The ground about the root is loosened suffi- 

 ciently far down to make it possible to lay the plant over on 

 its side, then it is covered with inverted sods laid in somewhat 

 open order and the whole is covered with a piece of tar paper 

 to keep out the rain. By this means even tender roses can be 

 kept safely through the winter. It proved successful last 

 winter in my garden with the hybrid perpetuals : Duke of 

 Edinburgh, Alfred Colomb, Mrs. John Laing, General Jacque- 

 minot and Paul Neyron, the climber Crimson Rambler, the 

 moss roses Glory of Mosses and Henry Martin and the Lord 

 Penzance Sweet Briars, Amy Robsart and Anna of Grierstein. 

 Those which succumbed were the hybrid perpetuals : Gloire 

 Lyonnaim, Black Prince and Dinsmore, and the climoer Mary 

 Washington, probably from being covered too closely. But 



