Spraying 
Schedule 
cut back to the third eye on good wood and to one eye. on the 
weaker stems. With the older plants leave five or six buds and. 
keep only the most vigorous canes. A hard winter may have 
been before you but judgment again comes into operation. 
Wood ashes and bone meal should be forked in after growth 
begins, then apply alternately, liquid manure (one-half bushel 
to a barrel of water) and blood (five pounds to a barrel of 
water). The preventive work among Roses begins at once and 
never ceases. It pays however in bloom and healthy plants that 
will resist the cold and drought. Why feed your roses to a slug 
or aphis when you appreciate them so much more? The spray- 
ing and preventive care of Roses is so important that I append 
a schedule based on Dr. George C. Thomas's methods. 
April — Spray for scale: 1 part Kerosene Emulsion to 15 parts water. 
Mid-April — -Spray for fungi: Bordeaux Mixture with Arsenate of Lead. 
April (late, before leaves unfold) Spray for Scale: Whale oil soap. 
(Get a potash soap) 
10 days later Spray for Fungi: 
1 week later' Spray for Fungi: 
Soon as Buds set Spray for Aphids: 
Spray for Fungi: 
Spray for Fungi: 
Spray for Eose Bugs: 
Spray for Eose Bugs: 
Spray for Aphids: 
Spray for Fungi: 
Spray for Eose Bugs: 
Spray for Eose Bugs: 
Spray for Eose Bugs: 
Spray for Aphids: 
Spray for Fungi: 
Spray for Fungi: 
Spray for Fungi: 
Spray for Fungi: 
Spray for Fungi: 
Spray Hybrid perpetuals every three weeks, even after they cease 
blooming (about first week in July) until the middle of August. This is 
to prevent fungous diseases which appear when there is much rain or 
dampness. 
May 1: Put on mulch of peat moss. 
For Aphids: 1 pound tobacco stems, 1 bucket water, 1 ounce Whale 
oil soap or 1 ounce Blackleaf No. 40, with 5 gallons water. Add 
1\ ounces soft soap to the above so that spray will adhere to the foliage. 
For Slugs: Lemon Oil, or better, Powdered White Hellebore (as 
follows) : Solution of 2 tablespoonfuls of Hellebore to bucket of boiling 
water. Apply underneath leaves with whisk brooui. 
For Mildew. Grape Dust or Sulphide of Potassium, \ ounce to gallon 
of water, add 1-J ounces common soft soap, or sulphur and soot. 
Remedies : It might be well for Individual Garden Clubs to Remedies 
establish departments of "Preventive Plant Medicine," as 
every plant seems to have its own particular ill. Certain things 
like rose bugs must be dealt with as they appear, but many of the 
pests that we loudly lament can be prevented if taken in time. 
Of course, this work should start (as any good social worker 
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4 days later 
June 1 (about) 
June 5 to 8 
1 week later 
1 week later 
1 week later 
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July 1 to 7 
1 week later 
1 week later 
1 week later 
August 1 
1 week later 
1 week later 
1 week later 
Potassium Sulphide. 
Potassium Sulphide. 
Whale oil soap. 
Potassium Sulphide. 
Potassium Sulphide. 
Arsenate of Lead. 
Arsenate of Lead. 
Whale oil soap. 
Potassium Sulphide. 
Arsenate of Lead. 
Arsenate of Lead. 
Arsenate of Lead. 
Whale oil soap. 
Potassium Sulphide. 
Potassium Sulphide. 
Potassium Sulphide. 
Potassium Sulphide. 
Potassium Sulphide. 
