102 THE GOLD MINE 



PEEPAKING ROSES FOR WINTER. 



This is an important item in rose culture, for, if left 

 to themselves in the bleak I^orthwest they would soon 

 die. There are four systems of winter protection : 



First. Put a headless barrel around your bushes and 

 fill it with leaves. If too tall, cut back. Take your 

 climbers down and cover those with leaves or straw, or, 

 better yet, with earth; or wrap with straw and burlap. 



Second. Many lay them down, putting on a sod to 

 hold them in place, and then cover with leaves, straw, 

 sods or earth, to be taken up in the spring. 



Third. Cut all your hybrids down to the ground and 

 burn up the brush. Then throw heavy mulching or 

 earth over the stubs, and take it off in the spring. 

 Gardener Hadkinson had five acres of roses under his 

 care at the St. Louis exposition. He pushed them the 

 first year, and they made a remarkable growth. His 

 idea was to develop a strong root system. In the fall 

 he cut them all to the ground without mercy, and 

 mulched the stubs. In the spring this was removed and 

 those strong roots were ready for business, and you 

 might have seen the finest rose display on earth. 



This system removes the slugs and insects which 

 might be lurking in the bushes, and every spring you 

 get a new and clean start. Koses always form on new 

 wood, ynd not on the old. If you have the bushes 

 standing you will note that they must throw out new 

 branches before they can bloom. 



Fourth. This system is my own, discovered in the 



