GENERAL INFORMATION 



be feasible to grow the hardiest roses by covering 

 them with a deep layer of soil, or by transplanting 

 in the winter to boxes placed indoors. If one really 

 loves roses it would seem that this extra trouble 

 would be well worth while. 



In this colder climate the best method which we 

 have seen is that roses be grown in good-sized pots 

 or boxes, and in the autumn when frost comes the 

 plants be moved in their flower pots or boxes to a 

 cellar or building where extreme cold will not reach 

 them. In the case of a cellar with an earthen floor 

 the pots can be placed beneath the surface. The 

 only thing necessary during the winter is to give the 

 plants several waterings. In the spring the rose 

 pots or boxes should be carried out and again placed 

 beneath the surface of the soil in their old bed. 

 While we have never tried this plan ourselves we feel 

 confident that even in an extreme climate it is pre- 

 fectly feasible and could be carried out hi any part 

 of the United States. We know of roses being 

 grown on the Gulf of St. Lawrence where the tem- 

 perature reaches forty degrees below zero; they were 

 protected during winter by the device of covering 

 each bush with a small keg, filled with earth. The 

 Hybrid Perpetuals did best in this locality; even the 

 strongest of the Hybrid Teas tried gave poor results. 

 In our own more moderate climate of the Middle 



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