OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



After the winter is over it is better to remove the 

 litter or leaves too early rather than too late, because 

 they will rapidly heat up under the influence of the 

 warm spring sun and the buds of the rose canes will 

 be forced into breaking too early, when any later 

 heavy frost will severely kill back the young shoots 

 so started by the heat. It is therefore advisable to 

 take this covering from the roses when the frost is 

 out of the ground and before the heat of the sun be- 

 comes great and lasting. 



Standard roses should be most carefully protected. 

 Try placing around them a rough box made of boards 

 and filling it with earth, covering well above the 

 junction of the strong growing stalk with the rose 

 itself. Another good method often used is to bend 

 down the entire plant after carefully loosening the 

 roots and to place it in a trench and cover it heavily 

 with earth. 



Most Hybrid Wichuraiana and other climbers will 

 come through the winter well by themselves. Others, 

 however, winter kill more or less, not enough to kill 

 the plant itself but to destroy parts of the main stems. 

 The Wichuraiana climbers bloom upon the wood of 

 the preceding year, and if such wood is lacking and 

 the rose has to throw up new shoots there will be 

 no bloom. If the main shoots are killed back the 

 few existing blooms will be low down, so that in 



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