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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1906 





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Charming 

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Choose wall coverings with an eye 

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bending, and prevents fracture of the wood to 

 a great extent. 



Another plan is this : Heap some earth 

 against the base of the bush, on the side toward 

 which it is to be bent, and bend the bush over 

 this heap. In this way, abrupt bends are 

 avoided, as the canes adjust themselves to the 

 soil in a curve. This is an easy method. 



Before laying the bushes down, provide 

 yourself with some strips of wood, or pieces of 

 sod to hold them in place until you can cover 

 them. When ready to lay down the bush, 

 grasp it firmly with both hands, and bend it 

 slowly and carefully to the ground. Don't 

 attempt to hurry, for that often means in- 

 jury to the plant. When it is flat, lay what- 

 ever you have provided for the purpose of 

 holding it down in place across the branches. 



Then cover it with light, dry soil. Three 

 inches of covering will be sufficient for the 

 branches but I would make it five or six inches 

 over the crown or base of the plant. Before 

 cold weather sets in, I would cover each bush 

 with boards, old oil-cloth, or something 

 similar to turn rain. It is desirable to keep 

 the soil with which the bushes are covered as 

 dry as possible, until the covering is removed 

 in the spring. In wet earth they often turn 

 black, from action of excessive moisture. The 

 bark will be found half rotted on examina- 

 tion. This condition must be avoided, if pos- 

 sible. 



If one has plenty of leaves roses can be 

 covered with them to good advantage, es- 

 pecially the teas and ever-bloomers which one 

 may attempt to winter in the ground, though 

 the chances are against success, at the north. 

 Make a pen of boards, six or eight inches deep, 

 about the plants. Then bend them down and 

 pack the pen with leaves. After it is full, 

 spread evergreen branches over them to pre- 

 vent their being blown away. Or, use coarse- 

 meshed wire netting, if branches are not ob- 

 tainable. On no account cover roses with 

 coarse litter, hay, or straw, under boards. 



Snow would be an ideal covering, if it came 

 early in the season, and remained. If the 

 snow falls early, bank up about your plants 

 with it, as an extra precaution against the 

 severity of the coming winter. 



Before the ground seems likely to freeze, 

 cover herbaceous plants with coarse litter from 

 the barnyard. Heap it well about them, and 

 spread it over their crowns, to the depth of 

 four or five inches. Be sure to give the beds 

 of newly-set bulbs a good covering. If this is 

 not done, frost will often tear loose their deli- 

 cate roots and heave them to the surface. A 

 few leaves held in place by branches, or net- 

 ting, will be all the covering the pansies will 

 need. Covered too deeply, they smother. 



For protecting hollyhocks: I cover the 

 plants with a box, or an inverted flower-pot, 

 and bank up well about it with litter. Keep 

 the nest of thick, fuzzy foliage about the base 

 of the plant dry, and the hollyhock is hardy 

 anywhere at the north. 



Climbing roses are extremely difficult to 

 handle. Their canes are too stiff to bend to 

 the ground without breaking. But bend them 

 down as well as you can, and cover with straw 

 or hay, putting it on thickly about the roots of 

 the plants. Or, hang straw mats over them, 

 and hold these in place with a covering of bur- 

 lap, tacked to the wall. It is a good plan to 

 shorten all the canes about a third of their 

 length, before doing this. The ends of them 

 will quite likely be killed, no matter how care- 

 fully protected. 



I make it a rule to cut back even my hardi- 

 est clematises to within four or five feet of the 

 ground laying what is left of the vine flat upon 

 the ground and covering it with leaves or ever- 

 green branches. Nothing is ever gained by 

 trying to save the most of the season's growth. 



The indoor garden will need considerable 



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