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1937 CATALOG AND ROSE GUIDE 
COO MIST OR COW MANURE AS A MULCH 
We specially recommend Cow Manure 
as a substitute for Peat Moss for mulching 
Roses and other garden plants. Cow 
manure never burns either roots or foliage 
and as it does not run together but remains 
loose and fluffy. 
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 evaporation and there¬ 
by 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 Ciover- 
set Rose Grower fertilizer or with our Clov- 
erset Blood and Bone, it provides the ideal 
combined mulch and fertilizer and at a 
very reasonable price. 
PRICES 
Coo Mist or shredded Cow Manure is 
packed in 2 bushel bags. Price, per bag— 
75 cents. 5 bags for $3.00. 
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, 
hilling up the soil around the plants 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 bene¬ 
ficial and will insure the Roses coming 
through the winter without loss. 
This covering 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 ( 21/2 pounds per dozen 
plants) should be worked well into the soil. 
WHY PRAIRIE HAY 
We recommend Prairie Hay for winter 
covering. Many times we are asked why 
straw, leaves or lawn clippings will not 
do just as well as Prairie Hay, which can 
be purchased from us or from any Feed 
Store. Our answer is that straw, leaves or 
lawn clippings settle down after the first 
rain or snow and thereby expose the rose 
canes to the thawing action of the winter 
sun, while Prairie Hay remains fluffy and 
completely protects the canes from such 
action of the sun during the winter and 
thereby causes the roses to remain frozen 
and therefore dormant during the entire 
winter. Prairie Hay is just as cheap as 
straw and is the only really successful 
cover we have ever found. 
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SUMMARY 
These instructions, we believe, if fol¬ 
lowed carefully, will enable you to produce 
just as fine Roses in your yard as we pro¬ 
duce here in our Rose Gardens at Clover¬ 
set Farm. Keep this book as your "Hand 
Book of Roses" and refer to it often. It will 
help you with your Roses. 
A WORD FROM THE EDITOR OF THIS BOOK 
One day a man, not feeling very well, 
happened to meet the family doctor and 
after diagnosing the symptoms as ex¬ 
plained to him, the doctor said, "You go 
home and have your wife give you a big 
dose of castor oil and I think in a few days 
you will be OK." The man told his wife 
about the talk to the doctor and in reply 
the wife said, "We don't have castor oil 
in the house but we have motor oil, why 
won't motor oil do, oil is oil?" So she gave 
him a big dose of motor oil. Later in meet¬ 
ing the doctor our friend explained that 
the oil treatment didn't do him a bit of 
good. This story illustrates the tendency 
of every one including. Rose growers, to 
use substitutes or makeshift methods en¬ 
tirely different than practical experience 
dictates, and accounts for most of the fail¬ 
ures in growing Roses and other plants of 
all kinds. Read the instructions given in 
this book, which are the result of over 50 
years experience and experiments in 
growing Roses in this climate by the writer, 
and stick to these instructions and grow 
Roses that any one can be proud of. 
Yours truly, 
ERNEST HAYSLER. 
