OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



Atlantic States and in approximate temperatures 

 it would be possible to grow many of the more 

 delicate roses with the heaviest winter protection, 

 and we propose to try this experiment next year. 



One of the best means of protecting roses from 

 the cold and the wind is a good brick or stone wall. 

 It is expensive, but even a low wall will make it 

 possible to grow the smaller Teas, and a four-foot 

 wall would be of great use in protecting low bushes 

 from the heavy winds, while with a six or eight-foot 

 wall it would be possible to care for the wonderfully 

 blooming Climbing Teas. The tender Cherokee rose 

 is being successfully grown near Philadelphia on the 

 south side of a wall. The ideal exposure would be 

 a wall facing the south or southeast and, as the 

 winter approaches, the climbers could be taken 

 down from their fastenings on the wall and covered 

 over with earth and the smaller roses cut back and 

 heavily covered. In an ideal rose garden, with such 

 a wall completely surrounding it, there would be a 

 great opportunity not only for the proper growing 

 of many of these very beautiful varieties which 

 otherwise one cannot hope to raise, but by utilizing 

 both sides of the wall it also would be possible to 

 bring roses into bloom at different times. On the 

 north side only the very hardiest of the climbing 

 roses would do at all well. Crimson Rambler and 



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