ROSES 



creatures that attack them, and dreaded the 

 spraying and insect - picking that all the 

 books said must be done. But, of course, 

 I finally yielded to the temptation of hav- 

 ing the very flower of all flowers, in my 

 garden, and have found the trouble slight 

 and the reward great. I have them in beds 

 in a little formal garden, and in rows in a 

 picking garden. 



The beds and the trenches for the rows 

 are both made in the usual way, and every 

 fall, in late October, before the Pansies are 

 set out as already described, manure is dug 

 in, and in the early spring, about the tenth 

 of April, a handful of finely ground fresh 

 bone-meal is stirred in around each plant 

 with a trowel. They are sprayed with slug- 

 shot three times between April tenth and 

 IMay fifteenth, when they get a thorough 

 spraying with kerosene emulsion, and, as a 

 result, my Roses are not troubled with the 

 usual pests. 



In November the hardy perpetuals are all 

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