THE ROSE 



deep, and filling it with leaves, packing them 

 firmly over the laid-down plants. Then cover 

 with something to shed rain. These very tender 

 sorts cannot always be depended on to come 

 through the winter safely at the north, even when 

 given the best of protection, but where one has 

 a bed of them that has afforded pleasure through- 

 out the entire summer, quite naturally he dislikes 

 to lose them if there is a possibility of saving 

 them, and he will be willing to make an effort 

 to carry them through the winter. If only part 

 of them are saved, he will feel amply repaid for 

 all his trouble. Generally all the old top will 

 have to be cut away, but that does not matter 

 with Roses of this class, as vigorous shoots will 

 be sent up, early in the season, if the roots are 

 alive, therefore little or no harm is done by the 

 entire removal of the old growth. 



The best Roses to plant are those grown by 

 reliable dealers who understand how to grow vig- 

 orous stock, and who are too honest to give a 

 plant a wrong name. Some unscrupulous 

 dealers, whose supply of plants is limited to a 

 few of the kinds easiest to grow, will fill any 

 order you send them, and your plants will come 

 to you labelled to correspond with your order. 

 But when they come into bloom, you may find 



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