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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
March, 1915 
I Want Y ou to Know 
and love Roses as I have known and 
loved them for 20 years. 
During the first ten years, Rose- 
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Ten years ago this business was 
established and today it is the biggest 
success of its kind this country has 
ever known. 
Why? 
Ten years of study, devotion — of 
STATE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE 
GREENSBORO, N. C. 
Match 10, 1914. 
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{Prof.) W. C. SMITH. 
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Rose and Peony Specialist 
Box 50 Fair Lawn, N. J. 
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Bos 3*21, New Castle, Ind. 
Trim rose bushes now. Cut out all the dead 
branches and most of the old wood, and cut down 
the bushes to half the height. Severe pruning 
gives finer roses. Trim the climbers only suffi- 
ciently to train them. 
Leaf rot and other rose diseases can be arrested 
by spraying now with bordeaux mixture, the weaker 
solution after the buds have swelled. Remove the 
strong manure which was put on for protection 
during the winter. If the soil is sufficiently dry 
the beds should be worked with a spading fork and 
well fertilized, and the seed sown for ground covers 
under the roses; such as Little Gem sweet alyssum, 
mignonette, forget-me-not, and portulaca. 
Some of these may have been soVn in the fall, 
and are now in bloom; in that event one must be 
careful to work around the little plants and keep 
the soil cultivated. 
Be careful not to work the garden when the 
ground is wet as it will bake. Test it by taking up 
a handful of soil and squeezing it in the hand. If 
it crumbles easily the ground is in a workable con- 
dition. Remove the coarse manure from the flower 
beds and straighten up the walks. 
Bare and uneven places on the lawn could be 
raked over and grass seed sown, giving at the same 
time a sprinkling of a good fertilizer, and then roll 
with a lawn roller. A new lawn made now will do 
wonders with a sprinkling of nitrate of soda, if the 
seed is sown in time to get the advantage of the 
spring rains. 
Get in all the hardy vegetables as soon as the 
ground can be worked, making sowings two weeks 
apart, so as to have a succession of vegetables 
during the summer. There are the English peas, 
smooth varieties first, and wrinkled later, and beets, 
radishes and lettuce; all to be sown in the open 
ground. Thoroughly incorporate in the soil a good 
fertilizer. Vegetables should be brought to ma- 
turity quickly to be of good size and quality. 
The seed sown in the hotbed in February should 
now be ready to transplant into coldframes. Plant 
in rows three or four inches apart and shade from 
the hot rays of the sun. Cover closely at nights 
and in the day open up for the air and as soon as 
possible remove the glass all day. This makes 
stocky plants, which may be set out in open ground 
the first part of April, in the tidewater section, and 
for fear of frost not earlier than the last week 
of April or the first of May in the mountain sec- 
tions. 
Transplant some of the early tomatoes to 4-inch 
pots and sink into the soil of the coldframe. At 
planting time they can be slipped right into the hole 
prepared for them in the garden. 
See that the asparagus bed is worked, fertilized 
and mounded up in rows, for the cutting begins in 
April. 
Strawberries should be worked, and pine tags or 
clean straw laid on either side of the rows and close 
under the leaves. This prevents the strawberries 
getting sandy, as they lie so close to the ground. 
If the spring isn’t too far advanced, the stone 
fruits can be planted this month. The Elberta and 
the Early and Late Crawfords are excellent peaches. 
In setting out the trees trim the tops severely to 
about two buds on each limb. Also trim off all 
bruised or broken roots. In digging the hole put 
the top soil to one side and mix with this a handful 
of bone meal. Put this soil in the hole first and 
pack around the roots of the tree and then put the 
bottom soil on last, all the while packing around the 
tree firmly. 
Spray all fruit trees with bordeaux mixture for 
brown rot, or fungus diseases, and add arsenate of 
lead for codling moths on the apples and curculio 
on the plums and peaches. One spraying is 
sufficient if done thoroughly with a coarse nozzle 
and heavy pressure. Spray within eight days after 
the petals drop and right into the calyx of the blos- 
som. The standard bordeaux can be used only in 
the dormant state of the plant, as much damage is 
often done after the buds swell. The formula to be 
used at this time is two pounds of copper sulphate, 
and five pounds of unslaked lime to fifty gallons 
of water. Add to this quantity one and one-half 
pounds of arsenate of lead. Mix the sulphate, lime 
and arsenate of lead each separately with a little 
water to dissolve thoroughly before mixing them 
together, and then add the remainder of the water, 
stirring thoroughly. 
Virginia. J. M. Patterson. 
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