OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



suited to our climate. The winters are more severe 

 and the summers hotter than the conditions to which 

 imported roses and their forbears have been accus- 

 tomed, so that many of the roses which flourish in 

 Europe are worthless with us. 



The main classes are grown in two ways, as dwarfs 

 and as standards. Standards differ from dwarfs or 

 bushes (ordinary form) in that they are generally 

 budded on strong Briar and other stocks from two 

 and one-half to four feet from the ground. They 

 are most attractive and some are more easily reached 

 than the dwarfs, as the blooms grow about the level 

 of the eye, while all of them are adapted to formal 

 gardens and landscape work. However, they can- 

 not be recommended unless absolute winter protec- 

 tion is given, and this is best accomplished by placing 

 boards around the plant, encasing it from the ground 

 to above the bud and filling in with earth. 



In the case of some of the climbers, which are 

 used as standards, an attractive effect is produced 

 by allowing the trailing shoots of such plants to 

 grow downwards, more or less like the weeping wil- 

 low tree, and these are called weeping standards, 

 otherwise they are the same as the regular standard. 

 In the case of some of the Teas, which are grown 

 very close to the ground in this way, they can be 

 more thoroughly protected hi cold winters than they 



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