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WINTER PROTECTION 



Nearly all amateur gardeners feel much 

 apprehension over wintering their roses the 

 first Winter after planting, but they need not. 



Amateur Gardeners, I wonder if after a most 

 elaborate system of winter protecting you have 

 found when all this "elaborate protection" is re- 

 moved that your precious standard or tree roses 

 have been "winter-killed?" 



That is what I hear on almost every side. 

 Boarding up and filling spaces with leaves, put- 

 ting on straw caps, stacking with tightly tied 

 cornstalks, winding with burlap, etc., etc. These 

 are only a few of the methods employed, and yet 

 the standards "winter-kill." There is one and 

 only one absolutely safe way that I know of to 

 "Winter" your valuables, a way that is simple, 

 and speedily accomplished. 



Have a trench dug anywhere the drainage 

 is good, and bury your standard roses. Mound 

 up the earth over them at least a foot high to 

 shed all rain and melting snow. When they are 

 taken up in the early Spring give them the same 

 lime-sulphur dip I suggested be given to new 

 stock. You will find your prizeo plants win- 

 tered in this way crisp and green and the plump. 



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