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Your Soil. Good garden soil, such as will grow 
corn, peas, beans, etc., is ideal. When it is possible, 
enrich the soil with well rotted manure. Cow manure 
is best. Horse manure if thoroughly rotted will do. 
If you use chicken, pig, sheep and other animal 
manure use it sparingly, if at all. Bone meal and air 
slacked lime may be used lightly. Spade deep— 
fifteen inches or more if you can, for reasonable 
drainage and to hold moisture in hot weather. 
How to Plant. Plant them as a rule, if in beds, 
18 to 24 inches apart. Nothing ironclad about this. 
Plant to suit yourself or your space. Plant closer if 
you want to. Put the plant down well into the soil 
deeper than they have been grown in the soil here. 
Firm them thoroughly into the soil, leaving a slight 
depression around the plant to hold the moisture. 
After planting pour the water around the roots until 
you are sure that the soil at the bottom of the roots 
is well dampened. Don’t be afraid to water them at 
this period, and when this is done don’t water too 
much afterwards. Roses are like corn; they like hot, 
dry spells and heavy rains. If the roots are kept wet 
all the time the young feeding roots will not de¬ 
velop, so if they dry out now and then it will be 
helpful, and if you must water—water them well 
after such drying periods. Roots are developed when 
the plants are on the dry side from time to time. If 
you have water under pressure, syringe the foliage 
frequently. It helps to maintain health, just as we 
all find a bath refreshing, as well as healthful. As 
the plants bloom, cut the flowers as they appear, 
and have the pleasure they are intended to give. As 
you cut them it helps to develop more blooming 
shoots. When the plants are growing actively, feed 
them, say every ten days to two weeks, lightly of 
course. Mulching with cow manure now will do 
wonders. Use Stim-U-Plant tablets also, they are 
very effective. 
Winter Protection. Please Read. This writer, 
after a lifetime of observation, has arrived at the 
conclusion that more rose plants are killed from too 
much, misdirected kindness than all other causes 
combined. In my own yard I have Tea Roses, Baby 
Ramblers, Hybrid Teas and Hybrid Perpetuals. I 
have never protected my plants at all, and have lost 
practically none. I don’t say this is a rule to be fol¬ 
lowed, but I do say this. A large percentage of 
amateur planters, as soon as the first heavy frost 
comes, commence covering their rose plants. This is 
the wrong procedure. Don’t commence protection 
until real freezing weather comes—then put a good 
covering of soil around the plants, then leaves, litter, 
straw; heap plenty of soil up around the stalks. 
Now, here again, is the value of the “ROSES OF 
NEW CASTLE.” Because they are on their own 
roots, the tops may be completely winter killed, but 
they will start again from the roots the following 
spring. Not so with the nursery-grown, wild-root 
rose plants. If their tops are winter killed you have 
nothing left but a wild root. Our roses are therefore 
more enduring, far more valuable, and it is not 
unusual for them to last a lifetime. Uncover the 
plants in the early spring, gradually, just the same 
as you covered them, so when all danger of freezing 
is over you will have them practically uncovered. 
Now don’t cover too early or too much, and don’t 
let the covering stay on too long in the early spring. 
PRUNING 
When plants fail to mature buds, remove a large 
percentage of the undeveloped buds and imperfect 
blooms. If the bushes are more spreading than de¬ 
sired they can be pruned back without injury about 
one-third of their growth in early spring, be¬ 
fore they foliage out. 
MILDEW 
Mildew does not seriously damage but makes the 
plant unsightly. The remedy is to dust the foliage 
in the morning while the dew is yet upon it, with 
sulphur flour, which may be had at almost any 
grocery or drug store. 
BLACK SPOT 
Black Spot is caused as a rule by continuous wet 
weather or an unfavorable, damp location. Spray 
with a mixture of Bordeaux, which you can secure 
at any drug store. It will be found our rose plants 
are not so affected unless the location is unfavorable. 
GENERAL INFORMATION 
After planting, if the leaves turn yellow and drop 
off, do not be alarmed. Nature thus conserves the 
vitality of the plant. Immediately the plant will 
throw out new and stronger shoots. During the 
growing season if the plants develop diseased foliage 
that indicates the root action is poor and the plant 
needs nourishment, in the way of a good plant food. 
Roses like sunshine. Partial shade is not so harmful, 
but they do best in full sunshine. Do not plant too 
close to trees or shrubs. 
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