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Special Care of Roses. Roses should be treated 
differently than most shrubs. While the ordinary shrub 
does best in a medium loam, roses like a heavy loam, the 
more clay the better. Hardy hybrid roses may be made 
to bloom almost continuously if the bed is well prepared 
before setting. To prepare the bed, dig out the soil for a 
depth of three feet, and fill in the bottom with bones, wood 
ashes, and a compost of cow manure. For the top, use two 
parts of pure clay to one part of fresh cow manure with a 
good sprinkling of fine bone meal; mix these thoroughly. 
If the roses are grafted stock, they should be set three or 
four inches below the buds. It is usually wise to set rose 
bushes two or three inches lower than they have been 
growing. This encourages rooting above the grafts. A 
yearly application of fine bone meal or wood ashes or both 
is beneficial. It is usually necessary to spray roses as 
soon as the buds start in spring and to continue to spray 
until after the danger of plant aphides is over. Both the 
green and white fly are veiy troublesome. Arsenic poisons 
are useless because the insect has a mouth like a mosquito, 
pierces the skin of the leaf, and sucks the vital juices from 
within. A contact poison such as kerosene emulsion, whale 
oil soap, or ivory soap should be used. This may seem 
a good deal of work, but it will pay. A rose bed thor¬ 
oughly prepared, and the roses cared for as above de¬ 
scribed, if they are of the hardy tea or hybrid varieties 
will yield bloom every month from June to October and 
will also have the rich, dark foliage of the florist’s rose. 
Of course, June roses cannot be made to bloom contin¬ 
uously, and while the care and the method of planting is 
practically the same, the result will not be continuous 
bloom; neither should they be as thoroughly pruned. 
