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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1913 



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the annuals planted in the house were ruined by 

 my having used soil from under an old abandoned 

 barn. I had always used leafmold for this purpose, 

 but gave up that plan to follow the advice of a 

 nurseryman, and so used the barnyard soil instead 

 of the leafmold. Some element develops when 

 manure is too old that will destroy anything that 

 grows. The nurseryman used the same soil for 

 setting out some shrubs and they all died. 



Then outside business interfered with my time 

 to such an extent that I could only give the time 

 necessary to remove the winter coverings, and let 

 it go at that — the poorest outlook for a garden I 

 ever had. I absolutely had no time to hoe or stir 

 up the ground in any way, only weeding when a 

 heavy rain made it easy, quick work. But the 

 fall planting proved its value; I never saw finer 

 flowers. Everything from the most delicate to 

 the sturdiest plant bloomed riotously. Not a 

 single root died during the winter. In spite of the 

 absence of annuals or gladiolus the garden bloomed 

 continuously. One thing I did do; I watered the 

 garden very copiously. The Garden Magazine 

 can count in me, henceforth, a faithful echo of its 

 slogan: Plant in fall. 



Minnesota. . Mary Madigan. 



Wintering Climbing Roses 



FOR five years I have been very successful 

 with wintering climbing roses by just tying 

 them together in a bundle against the fence and 

 putting some bulrushes or straw over them to pro- 

 tect them from the sun; and I have been guilty of 

 saying that this was sufficient covering for the 

 Wichuraiana type for this locality. 



However, in 19 12 we experienced very severe 

 and prolonged cold, the thermometer dropping as 

 low as 28 degrees below zero, with the result that 

 of the sixty odd climbers which I had been experi- 

 menting with none of the Wichuraianas came 

 through without being killed to within a foot or 

 two of the ground. Only three climbing roses were 

 hardy enough to maintain their eight or ten feet of 

 height without killing back. 



In previous years we have had touches of 10 

 degrees below zero and the method I adopted of 

 hilling up the earth around the neck of the rose and 

 then tying the branches together and covering 

 them with straw to keep the sun off them had been 

 quite sufficient. Some of my neighbors have 

 Crimson Rambler climbers that have been exposed 

 to the weather for ten years and have wintered all 

 right, but that year they were killed to within a 

 few inches of the ground. 



Sometimes success is had by laying the climbers 

 on the ground and covering them with soil or a 

 good heavy mulch of strawy manure. I noticed 

 last year that a few of the branches that had fallen 

 on the ground and were protected only by the snow 

 came through all right. The manure or litter 

 should not be tightly packed, as the average rose 

 will stand cold down to at least zero. 



The hemlock boughs will not do for a climate 

 that runs away below zero; and in such a location, 

 if you cannot cover the plants with earth, I think 

 the only thing left is the strawy manure or dry 

 leaves. Lay the plants down on the ground and 

 place the straw or leaves around them so that they 

 will get some ventilation, but still be kept warm 

 enough not to winter kill badly. Exterminate all 

 field mice when roses are laid down, or they will eat 

 every scrap of bark from the rose shoots. 



Toronto, Canada. W. G. MacKendrick. 



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