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BETTER FRUIT 



May 



PICKING CLIJIRING ROSKS, PORTLAND 

 OREGON 



solve one pound of sulphate of copper 

 (blue vitriol) in two gallons of hot water. 

 As the blue vitriol corrodes tin it must 

 be dissolved in an earthen vessel. Let 

 the mixture stand over night, when the 

 copper will be fully dissolved. Then 

 strain through a cloth and keep the 

 strained liquid in a well corked and well 

 glazed jug. Dissolve one pound of fresh, 

 unslaked lime in two gallons of cold 

 water, pouring the water on the lime 

 slowly. Let it stand over night, stir and 

 strain through a cloth and keep in a 

 tightly corked jug. When a spray is to 

 be used take one quart of the copper 

 solution and one quart of the lime solu- 

 tion, shaking the jug before pouring out 

 each liquid. Then add one and one-half 

 gallons of water, thus making two gal- 



ROSE ARCH IX \ AKJ) OF TOM RICH.XRDSON 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



Ions of spraying solution. Superior culti- 

 vation is a great preventive of aphis. 

 Keeping the ground free from weeds and 

 a baked surface will do much to stimu- 

 late vigorous growth of rose bushes, and 

 thus destroy the feeding ground for aphis. 



Mildew is a formidable enemy. Pre- 

 ventive measures are decidedly the best. 

 Dissolve one-half ounce sulphide of 

 potassium and an ounce of shavings of 

 pure soap in two gallons of hot water, 

 strain and use with an auto spray. Pure 

 soap is used because it will not hurt the 

 foliage, and because it will discourage 

 any acti^'ity of aphis as well as cause the 

 sulphide of potass'um to stick better. 

 This spray should be used about twice 

 during the growing season; the first time 

 after the leaves are well unfolded in the 

 spring and the second time after the 

 first blooming senson. It will do much 

 to prevent mildew and aphis. After mil- 

 dew appears there is little that can be 

 done. The best plan is to cut off every 

 diseased leaf and branch and burn them. 

 Never under any circumstances allow the 

 cuttings from a rose bush to lie on the 

 ground — and this whether mildew is 



CORNER OF ROSE SHOW, ROSE FESTIVAL 

 PORTLAND, OREGON, imo 



present or not. Burn up all cuttings. 

 The application by the use of a good 

 powder bellows of a powder made by 

 mixing one-third soot and two-thirds 

 flour of sulphur to the rose bush is the 

 best remedy after the mildew appears. 

 But the preventive spraying with the 

 potassium and soap solution; the pres- 

 ence of plenty of both sunshine and air, 

 both of which may be aided by proper 

 pruning; the avoidance of sprinkling- 

 roses in the evening — which, outside of 

 mulching with reeking, fresh manure, is 

 the most prolific cause of mildew — and 

 the frequent and proper cultivation of 

 the ground, so that no hard, baked crust 

 excludes the air and sunshine from the 

 roots, will be the best that can be done 

 to prevent mildew. Of course, if you 

 grow Killarney, Her Majesty and some 

 other roses that always mildew, no mat- 

 ter where nor how you plant them, nor 

 what you do with them, you will have 

 mildew. 



For winter mulching and spring enrich- 

 ing of the ground, unless the ground is a 

 wet soil and not well drained, use cow 

 manure. But don't put six inches of 

 reeking, fresh cow manure on the rose 

 beds for mulching and be surprised if 



Photo by Crego 



BUD OF "iMADAME MELANIE SOITPERT" 

 AT PORTLAND, OREGON 



you have poisoned rose bushes and mil- 

 dew the next spring and summer. The 

 best way to prepare both a mulch and 

 fertilizer is to get a galvanized iron pan 

 made, about five inches deep and as large 

 as you will need, with a few small holes 

 in one corner of the bottom of the pan. 

 Then build a tight board box, with 

 neither top nor bottom, that will fit 

 inside the galvanized iron pan. Put in 

 this box fresh cow manure, cover tightly 

 and shed so that no rain can get into 

 the pan or box. Let the liquor drain 

 through the holes in the corner of the 

 pan and keep in a jar or keg, both to 

 be well closed, to be used for liquid 

 manure in the spring and early summer, 

 or pour it back on the manure in the box. 

 In one year this box of manure will be 

 properly rotted and ready to be put on 

 the rose bed in the early winter, to 

 remain for a winter mulch and to be dug 



TREE ROSE IN A PORTLAND, OREGON, 

 GARDEN 



