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fall and they will do much better next year, 

 and for a good many years to come. 



PLANT ONE COLOR IN A BOX 



Do not plant two or more varieties in one 

 box, one kind in a box is better taste. I 

 advise planting two boxes with the Baby 

 Rambler, which bloom all summer. In such 

 boxes I use two plants of standard and three 

 dwarfs. The standards are about four feet 

 high, and the dwarf forms cover the box as a 

 ground work, giving a very pretty effect. 



In the other boxes, I would also advise 

 using a ground cover. In the Gruss an 

 Teplitz box, for instance, use sweet alyssum. 

 The crimson and the white make a beautiful 

 contrast, but if you prefer it all crimson, use 

 dwarf crimson nasturtium instead of sweet 

 alyssum. 



Blue ageratum goes nicely with pink or 

 white colors, such as the Maman Cochet, 

 Killarney, or Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. 

 Portulaca, musk plant (Mimulus), verbena, 

 and the pansy may all be used for this pur- 

 pose. They will not harm the roses, and 

 the effect will be very much more effective. 



METHODS OF STORING 



Use a fairly rich, perferably heavy, soil 

 in the boxes, and when the plants are well 

 rooted, give them extra feeding in the form 

 of diluted manure water — at first once a week 

 and later twice a week. Keep them growing 

 as late as you can in the fall. They are stor- 

 ing up energy for another season. 



The roses may be stored in a barn or cellar 

 all winter, or they may be placed in the open, 

 putting the boxes close together. Bank 

 manure and leaves around them and cover 

 the tops with hemlock, pine branches or salt 

 hay. If they are kept in a cellar, do not 

 deprive them of frost. The frost does no 

 harm so long as the early spring sun is kept 

 off them. They must be well frozen to 

 thoroughly ripen the wood. It is the frosts 

 of late February, March, and April that 

 harm vegetation. The warm sunshine ex- 

 cites growth prematurely, the sap flows in 

 the wood and then a hard frost converts this 

 sap into ice, distends and disrupts the cells 

 and thus the harm is done. But if they are 

 kept dormant, till hard frosts are over, there 

 is no danger. 



WHEN TO RENEW THE SOIL 



The soil does not require to be entirely 

 replaced for several years. After pruning 

 the roses (just before growth commences), 

 take off two or three inches of the top soil 

 (being careful to harm the roots but as little 

 as possible), and replace this with fresh soil, 

 well enriched with animal and bone manure. 

 With this treatment, the plants will do better 

 after the first year than they did even the 

 first August. Other cultural directions are 

 to keep a sharp lookout for bugs and diseases 

 at all times; spray and syringe on warm days 

 to keep down aphis and red spider; dust 

 with flowers of sulphur on the first appearance 

 of mildew. Rose bugs won't trouble you 

 much on a veranda, but if they do, shake them 

 off and destroy them as soon as they appear. 



Tarrytown,'N.Y. J. T. Scott. 



