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in early in the spring. If you are so 

 situated that you cannot do this then 

 mulch with well rotted manure and dig 

 that in early in the spring, using artificial 

 manure during the spring and early 

 summer. 



Fall planting of two-year-old bushes 

 of hybrid perpetual and hybrid tea roses 

 is the best. I have never yet lost a 

 single fall planted rose, and late spring 

 planting has cost me many bushes. But 

 fall planting must be well done. Fol- 

 lowing the rule for the preparation of 

 the ground and planting let the fall 

 planted rose be so cut back that no 

 staking is needed. On the Pacific Coast 

 the planting should not be done before 

 the last of November or the first of 

 December. In the Middle West and 

 East in October. If planted too early a 

 growth of bush will result and the first 

 freeze will seriously damage the bush. 

 If planted late there will be none, or 

 very little growth of bush, but root 

 growth will go on and make a spring 



growth of bush that is ideal. After 

 planting mulch with well rotted manure 

 and keep the mulching during the winter 

 well up around the bush. Losses of fall 

 planted roses come almost wholly from 

 the wind working the mulching and soil 

 away from the rose bush out even to the 

 very ends of the roots. Then a sudden 

 freeze and a dead rose bush. Keep the 

 mulching well up around the base of the 

 bush during the winter, and fall planting 

 will bring roses in June that no spring 

 planting can do. Tea and tender roses 

 had better be planted in the early spring. 

 Hothouse roses, if you plant such things, 

 can be planted any time in spring or 

 summer. 



It is impossible to give directions for 

 pruning that will apply to all roses. The 

 rose books that have illustrations of rose 

 bushes, showing the markings where the 

 first and the subsequent prunings shall 

 be, always seem to me to suppose that 

 the grower of roses must carry a book, 

 a yard stick and a piece of chalk to 



measure and mark the places where the 

 bush is to be cut. A few general rules 

 belong to pruning: First, prune so that 

 the new growth will make a beautiful 

 bush as well as a beautiful bloom. Sec- 

 ond, always cut to an outward-pointed 

 eye. This prevents the crowding of the 

 center of the bush, if you are careful to 

 rub off many of the inside shoots that 

 appear and cut out entirely the canes 

 that come inside. Third, if you want 

 summer and late fall blooms cut back 

 after the first blooming season. Much 

 of this can be done when roses are cut 

 for the house, the hospital and the 

 "shut-ins." Make a liberal stem to each 

 rose you cut, observing the rule of cut- 

 ting to an out-pointing eye. If this 

 leaves too much stem on the cut rose it 

 can be trimmed after the cutting. Fourth, 

 remember that insects rarely ever deposit 

 their eggs on the lower part of the rose 

 branches. If the final pruning in the 

 spring is a close one, and every cutting 

 is burned, it will mean the destruction of 

 thousands of rose pests. Fifth, late in 

 the fall cut out all weak growth and cut 

 back the canes so that not too much 

 bush is left to be switched around by 

 winter winds, thus working the mulching 

 and soil away from the rose and endan- 

 gering loss by freezing. In the spring 

 cut out all extra canes and cut back the 

 canes that are left so that an attractive 

 bush will result. Hybrid perpetual roses 

 should, as a rule, be cut back vigorously. 

 Hybrid tea roses not so much and tea 

 roses less yet. But these are only gen- 

 eral rules. Many of the new roses are 

 a law unto themselves when it comes to 

 pruning. 



Hugh Dickson, J. B. Clark, a magnifi- 

 cent rose if properly pruned, Mrs. Stew- 

 art Clark, Dr. O'Donnel Brown and a 

 few other vigorous growers need to have 

 special pruning or you get poor roses. 

 The rule for these roses is to cut out 

 entirely all but from four to six canes, 

 and cut the remaining canes back very 

 moderately. When the new, rank canes 

 shoot up they should be cut off when 

 about three feet high. Side branches 

 will then form and give magnificent 







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