Wyant Cultural Suggestions 
If you love Roses, you will have success with them, and if 
you love Roses, you will buy Wyant’s strong, vigorous Roses 
and follow the simple directions accompanying the bushes. 
The following suggestions may also be of assistance to you in 
raising better Roses. 
PLANTINC 
Set the bushes closely together so that the foliage will keep the 
ground shaded and cool; 12 to 15 inches apart for the Hybrid Teas, 
the taller varieties placed for the best effect. Colors in Roses 
seldom clash. 
Select a location where tree roots cannot get into the Rose bed. 
Spade the soil down 15 to 18 inches, add plenty of manure, if 
available. If drainage is needed, the bed should be tiled and sur¬ 
plus water carried away. 
Guard against the roots drying out from exposure to sun, wina 
or freezing during planting. Dig a large hole or trench, point the 
roots slightly downward, and have the soil loose and friable 
Do not use chemical fertilizer when planting Wyant Roses; bone- 
meal and rotten manure are best. 
PRUNING 
When a Rose is set in the Spring, shorten the strong branches to 
5 or 8 inches, and the weaker even more. Heap the soil as high as 
the branches are pruned, to protect against drying out, until the 
roots become established. Remove this, when the shoots come, so 
that the bud, or crown, is about level with the soil surface. Culti¬ 
vate the soil every week, especially after rain. 
For long stems and large flowers, pick your blooms with long 
stems. For quantities of bloom, cut short stems and nip old 
blossoms after the petals fall. In cutting first blossoms, leave 
enough stem to form the structure of a bush Cut side branches 
back to 1 or 2 leaves. 
For Spring planting remove dead wood from Hybrid Teas and cut 
strong branches down to highest big live bud Shorten or remove 
weak growths. 
WATERINC AND FEEDING 
The only fall fertilizer is bonemeal. After the ground is frozen, 
apply manure. In the Spring, when the bank of soil is removed, 
apply a complete chemical fertilizer to the established plants, but 
not to newly set Roses. During June or July another application 
of a complete chemical fertilizer can be made, this time to new 
as well as established Roses. Wood ashes, if available, are also 
a good summer fertilizer. 
DISEASES AND INSECT CONTROL 
A little care will remedy the few diseases and insects attacking 
Rose plants. Dusting is preferred to spraying. 
Spray or dust ophids, small green lice about the tips of the shoots, 
with insecticides containing nicotine; spray or dust worms and in¬ 
sects which eat leaves, with a poison, such as arsenate of lead, 
one of the ingredients of Wyant's Massey Dust. 
Knock Rose chafers, the large grayish bugs with long legs and 
snouts, into a pan of water covered with coal oil. 
Place a drop of shellac or thick white lead on all cut ends in 
ihe Spring, to keep out the carpenter bee, which makes a hole into 
the exposed pith. 
Prevent Black-spot, the disease which makes leaves drop off, by 
dusting with Wyant's Massey Dust, beginning as soon as the leaves 
come out and continuing every week or ten days, and more often 
in rainy weather. Apply a light even coat with a gun, before rains, 
if possible. Foliage will then be retained until frost. 
Mildew, which causes the young leaves to turn white and curl, 
can also be controlled by dusting with Wyant's Massy Dust. 
CULTURAL REMINDERS 
Complete instructions for planting 
Proper Spring pruning Hilled up, pruned o Showing where Rose 
of older plants if bit, and covered for should be pruned for 
branches are alive Winter. Either old or Spring planting, 
high up. new plants. Note depth of planting 
1 Begin right by buying Wy¬ 
ant Roses. 
2, Plant as early as possible 
in the Spring. 
3, When Roses are received 
don’t let them dry out. 
4, Leave Winter protection on 
a little longer than you 
think necessary. 
5 Remove Winter protection 
a little at a time and then 
prune. 
6. Fertilize each April and 
June if you want the best 
results. Bonemeal is the 
only chemical fertilizer that 
may be applied to newly 
planted Roses. 
7. Be systematic about con¬ 
trolling insects and diseases 
8. Disbud when side buds are 
very tiny if you want to 
produce specimen blooms. 
9. Prune climbers only when 
they get too large for your 
trells 
10. In pruning climbers remove 
the oldest canes after they 
bloom in June or July. 
