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HOW TO GROW ROSES 



Minneapolis Municipal Rose-garden 



". . . Our principal problem would be to provide proper 

 winter-protection. We took special pains to ripen the wood. 

 We stopped watering and cultivation in September, and dis- 

 couraged late growth. The last week in October we gave the 

 beds a very thorough soaking, and a few days after we tied 

 the shoots close together, and piled the soil around the plants 

 as high as we could with material taken from between the 

 plants, so covering from four to six of the lower eyes. The 

 garden was then left in this condition until there were 3 

 or 4 inches of frost in the ground. We then filled in with 

 dry leaves, gathered from the nearby woods. The leaves were 

 thrown in loose and not packed down, and covered the beds to 

 the height of the soil heaped around the plant. We then 

 boarded in the long sides of the beds 2 feet high, and boarded 

 over the top of the bed, but left the two ends open. Over 

 this board cover we spread a layer of bedding, straw and hay. 



