WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
123 
April, 1918 
in France today is $110 and $135 
per ton, and they have a good coal 
supply this year. 
“Just visualize an American wo- 
man saying: ‘If 1 he corn, rye, oat- 
meal and barley are just as good, I 
will accept the wheat and send the 
wheat substitutes to Europe.’ 
Remember that bread is made from 
wheat. 
How much work is it for her to 
prepare rice or oatmeal or make 
corn bread? How much of a bur- 
den does it impose upon the over- 
time of the American woman to- 
day, either with or without serv- 
ants? Very little. But it is a 
burden to a French woman, who is 
working sixteen hours a day and 
taking care of a maimed soldier, 
or a tubercular person, to deliber- 
ately put an hour or an hour and a 
half on her a day at boiling rice 
or making eornbread. Shall we 
put this burden upon her? This 
is the concrete situation.” 
General Planting Methods for 
Roses. 
Planting methods for border and 
lawn roses apply also to practically 
all other roses. Stock should be 
planted as soon as possible after it 
arrives. When it is impossible to 
plant immediately, the plants 
should be placed in a trench and 
the roots covered. If the plant 
x’oots are dry when received soak- 
ing them in water an hour or more 
before this heeling-in is done is de- 
sirable. If the stems are shrivel- 
ed, plumpness may be restored and 
growth insured by burying the 
whole plant for a few days. If the 
plants are frozen when received 
they should be placed where they 
will thaw gradually and should not 
be unpacked until there is no ques- 
tion that the frost is out. 
More plants arc killed by undue 
exposure of roots at planting time 
than from any other cause. No 
matter how short the distance to 
the permanent planting location, 
plants should be taken there with 
the roots thoroughly covered. The 
roots may be placed in a bucket of 
water while removing to the plant- 
ing ground and until planting, or 
they may be puddled in a mixture 
of thin clay and then kept Covered 
with wet burlap or other protec- 
tion. Care should be taken that 
the clay does not become dry be- 
fore planting. It is important to 
set the plants a little deeper than 
they were before. If planted too 
deep, however, the bark of the 
buried stems would be injured and 
growth would be checked until new 
roots form nearer the surface. 
In planting dormant bushes it is 
desirable to trim the ends of brok- 
en roots and any that are too long 
just before they are put into the 
hole, so that there will be smooth, 
fresh surfaces which can callus 
and heal over. It is usual to have 
this fresh-cut surface on the under 
side of the root. The hole in 
which the bush is to be planted 
should be several inches larger 
across than the roots will extend 
and ample in depth, with a little 
loose earth on the bottom. The 
roots should be separated well in 
all directions, with the soil well, 
worked in among them, separating 
them into layers, each of which 
should be spread out like the fin- 
gers of the hand. When the hole 
is partially full, the plant should 
be shaken up and down so as to 
make sure it is in close contach 
with the soil under the crown, 
where the roots branch. When the 
roots are well covered the soil 
should be finned. This is best 
done by tramping. Tf the soil isi 
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