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Special Care op Roses. Roses should be treated 

 differently than most shrubs. While the ordinary shrub 

 does best in a medium loam, roses like a heavy loam, the 

 more clay the better. Hardy hybrid roses may be made 

 to bloom almost continuously if the bed is well prepared 

 before setting. To prepare the bed, dig out the soil for a 

 depth of three feet, and fill in the bottom with bones, wood 

 ashes, and a compost of cow manure. For the top, use two 

 parts of pure clay to one part of fresh cow manure with a 

 good sprinkling of fine bone meal; mix these thoroughly. 

 If the roses are grafted stock, they should be set three or 

 four inches below the buds. It is usually wise to set rose 

 bushes two or three inches lower than they have been 

 growing. This encourages rooting above the grafts. A 

 yearly application of fine bone meal or wood ashes or both 

 is beneficial. It is usually necessary to spray roses as 

 soon as the buds start in spring and to continue to spray 

 until after the danger of plant aphides is over. Both the 

 green and white fly are very troublesome. Arsenic poisons 

 are useless because the insect has a mouth like a mosquito, 

 pierces the skin of the leaf, and sucks the vital juices from 

 within. A contact poison such as kerosene emulsion, whale 

 oil soap, or ivory soap should be used. This may seem 

 a good deal of work, but it will pay. A rose bed thor- 

 oughly prepared, and the roses cared for as above de- 

 scribed, if they are of the hardy tea or hybrid varieties 

 will yield bloom every month from June to October and 

 will also have the rich, dark foliage of the florist's rose. 

 Of course, June roses cannot be made to bloom contin- 

 uously, and while the care and the method of planting is 

 practically the same, the result will not be continuous 

 bloom; neither should they be as thoroughly pruned. 



