firm wood will break into leaf, bud and^ 

 ^ flower weeks before new, dormant stock. ^ 



Protect your hybrid teas and tea roses over 

 the Winter by mounding up soil to ten or twelve 

 inches around your plants, packing with the 

 spade. This protecting, however, is not used 

 until after the ground is frozen. Use new soil 

 for the mounding up. Don't rob the bed, between 

 the plants, of soil, leaving deep depressions; no, 

 use new soil, screened and limed by scattering 

 a powdering of lime all through the rose beds. 



When hilling up around each hybrid tea and 

 tea rose for Winter protection do not make the 

 mistake of drawing the soil from the bed up 

 around the bushes, resulting in hollows in which 

 water will settle. Also it robs the spaces between 

 the roses of their necessary soil. I have seen this 

 done very frequently, and it is a mistake! 



Additional screened soil should be used for 

 "hilling up." Cut the excessive length of canes 

 of bush roses when protecting them for Winter. 

 These long canes do much damage to other canes 

 by being blown about by high winds. 



It is important that the Winter protection be 

 not completed until after the surface of the ground 

 is frozen. 



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