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be protected in winter. Some gardeners, after bending the 

 roses over carefully, cover them with dry earth, then with 

 leaves or straw, making a cover that will shed rain and will 

 not readily thaw out. Others tie up the roses in straw, and 

 then mound the earth about the foot. Still others make 

 little houses for their roses, usually out of old boxes, filling 

 them with leaves. But none of this should be done until 



the ground is frozen, 

 and the cover then 

 should be removed in 

 late March, or when the 

 frost is really leaving 

 the ground. 



There are other 

 classes of roses, but I 

 will speak of only one 

 more, which should be 

 planted, at least in the 

 North, only by those 

 who so love roses that 

 they are willing to work 

 hard over them. These 

 are the tea roses, which 

 are very tender, but which grow very lovely blossoms in great 

 quantity. They are : white, Bride ; red, Papa Gontier ; 

 pink, Countess de Labarthe ; and yellow, Perle des Jardins. 1 

 I do not advise trying to keep these tender tea roses in 

 the ground over winter. In the fall cut them nearly to the 

 ground, lift them, and store them away from frost in moist 

 sand or earth. Keep them cool, plant them out when frosts 

 are gone, and they should yield again. 



1 Of course there are other kinds in all these classes. I merely name the 

 best known. If a reliable florist, having none of them, recommends others 

 in the same classes, there is no reason for not taking his selection. 



Fig. 114. 



- Rosebushes wrapped in straw 

 for the winter. 



