a richer color almost immediately after the bed 

 is treated with it (that is working it well into the 

 soil), it also will rid the soil of slugs, wire and 

 cutworms, and insects will not deposit their eggs 

 on or under the surface of the beds that have 

 been regularly dressed with it. 



TRAINING 



^ Bushes that make long canes like Mme. Abel 

 Chatenay, Betty, Frau Karl Druschki, etc., should 

 be pegged. You may not be familiar with the 

 pegging down of rose bushes, but it is simply 

 and quickly done, requiring only a short stake 

 with a notch cut in the top. Drive it into the 

 ground and tie the end of the long shoot to it 

 with green tape or soft binder's cord and you 

 have accomplished pegging. It is advisable, how- 

 ever, to first drive a stake about midway between 

 the plant and where the tip of the cane is to be 

 staked so as to temporarily tie down the shoot 

 to avoid breaking it off, then tying it securely 



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