OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



"A" because the plants do not die, and, in addition, 

 because there is enough wood for us to cut to the 

 proper number of buds. 



Those marked "B" are roses which are likely to 

 kill back below the proper pruning mark, and some- 

 tunes show a death here and there, while those 

 marked "C" are roses among which you may expect 

 to find a few deaths and more whiter killing. 



We did not put any roses in the list which were 

 down as low as "D" for hardiness. We consider 

 hardiness of the first moment and do not wish to 

 include any roses which are not fairly hardy. 

 Roughly speaking, under "A" you should not lose 

 more than one per cent, from winter killing; under 

 "B" from two to three per cent., and under "C" 

 from five to ten per cent. 



During the past winter with a new shipment of 

 nearly one thousand roses, chiefly new varieties, 

 in addition to our old plants, we have lost in our 

 entire rose garden not more than twenty plants, or 

 about one per cent., and some of the plants were 

 very small and weak when set out. We consider 

 this immunity from deaths due largely to the fact 

 that we hill up our roses every autumn after the 

 heavy frosts have set in, as described in the chap- 

 ter "Cultivation." 



The color descriptions of the blooms as given in 



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