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CLOVERSET FLOWER FARM, KANSAS CITY 
it permits the air to circulate freely through it, reducing the tendency of the 
soil to become sour and unfit for good plant growth. Cow manure as a 
mulch, shading the soil as it does and keeping it cool, prevents rapid evap¬ 
oration and thereby greatly reduces the amount of water necessary to 
supply the wants of plants. As cow manure carries a considerable amount 
of plant food, which as it breaks down is gradually fed to the plants, we 
think that with the addition of our Cloverset Rose Grower fertilizer or with 
our Cloverset Blood and Bone, it provides the ideal combined mulch and 
fertilizer and at a very reasonable price. 
PRICES 
Well rotted, shredded Cow Manure is packed in 2 bushel bags. Price, per 
bag—50 cents. In bulk, $7.00 per ton. 
WINTER PROTECTION OF YOUR ROSES 
Hybrid Teas, or everblooming monthly Roses, bloom on current year's 
wood and after heavy, freezing weather in the Fall should be cut back to 
eight inches high and an insulating cover of prairie hay packed over and 
around the bushes. While it is not absolutely necessary, some material 
to shed the water and the snow is beneficial and will insure the Roses 
coming through the winter without loss. 
This material should be left on the Roses until danger of heavy frost is 
over in the spring, generally about the first of April, when it should be 
removed and the Roses gone over carefully and all the dead wood and 
weak branches cut away, after which a substantial feeding of Cloverset 
Rose Grower Fertilizer or Cloverset Blood and Bone Fertilizer {2Vz pounds 
per dozen plants) should be worked well into the soil. 
SUMMARY 
These instructions, we believe, if followed carefully, will enable you to 
produce just as fine Roses in your yard as we produce here in our Rose 
Gardens at Cloverset Farm. Keep this book as your "Hand Book of Roses" 
and refer to it often. It will help you with your Roses. 
CLOVERSET FLOWER FARM 
ERNEST HAYSLER AND SON 
105th St. & Broadway (Wornall Road) 
Phone Springdale 3251 
KANSAS CITY, MO. 
