OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



growing stalk with the rose itself. Mr. Frederick 

 W. Taylor recommends making this box at least 

 two feet square, and filling it with tightly packed 

 earth from the ground level to the top of the 

 plant above the bud. Another good method often 

 used is to bend down the entire plant after care- 

 fully loosening the roots and to place it in a 

 trench and cover it heavily with earth. We have 

 tried protecting standards with old pieces of carpet, 

 carefully wrapped around the upper part of the 

 plants only, but find that the method of actually 

 encasing the entire plant with earth is the best. 



Most 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 the far north it would be well to bend down 

 the canes and protect them with the usual blanket 

 of earth. Ordinarily where climbers are protected 

 from the north and particularly the northwest winds, 

 it really is not necessary to give them any other 

 protection; but it does not take very long to bend 



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