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lawn the markets contain a goodly variety of suit- 

 able material, coming as many of them do from 

 lands where ordinary lawn conditions largely 

 prevail. 



WINTER TREATMENT 



In the last section the reader was told that if he 

 lived in a practically frostless locality he might 

 have early winter or holiday roses, and how best to 

 get them. It was also stated that if conditions were 

 less favorable severe pruning should be left until 

 winter. The latter treatment will be found better 

 for California in general. 



In the colder sections, where very sharp frosts 

 prevail for a time, roses may be pruned in Decem- 

 ber, for low temperatures stagnate the flow of sap 

 and ripen the wood so that early pruning is admis- 

 sible, but as dormancy under such conditions is pro- 

 longed there is no necessity for pruning until early 

 in the new year. 



In the warmer sections, as in the southern third 

 of the state, the bay region about San Francisco 

 and Oakland, and in various circumscribed citrus 

 belts, the pruning process is better left until Janu- 

 ary. You will then get a crop of fine blossoms from 

 early spring until the middle of summer, for roses 

 so treated will begin blooming in February or 

 March, according to the weather, and continue till 

 July unless spells of very hot weather curtail the 

 bloom. 



MILDEW ON ROSES 



The most serious trouble prevalent with roses dur- 

 ing winter, and somewhat at other times, is mildew ; 

 and this may be present from one or several causes. 

 It is sometimes due entirely to unfavorable weather 

 conditions, but in such cases it attacks only sorts 



