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ROSES 



be had from planting the Teas. One success- 

 ful amateur in the southern part of Ontario 

 adopts this method for the Hybrids: 



Four or five layers of leaves are placed on 

 the rose bed and close around the bushes after 

 severe frost in the autumn, rather to prevent 

 too rapid thawing in the spring than as pro- 

 tection against the winter's cold. 



Standards, which are not often grown, need 

 much more tender care than the ordinary 

 low-budded plants of the same varieties. In 

 Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Conn., where is 

 the finest public rose garden of the East, they 

 are dug up bodily each fall and buried in a 

 straw- or hay-lined trench and covered with 

 a foot or so of soil. In this way complete 

 success has been achieved under very trying 

 climatic conditions. Pillar roses can be win- 

 tered by being mulched and the whole top, 

 support and all, wrapped in mats, hay, burlap 

 or other convenient material. 



FERTILISERS 



The rose is a strong feeder and must not 

 be neglected. Each year the beds should 

 receive a dressing of manure. Indeed ani- 



