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A 4 For Sale, “Beach Nest,’’ a new 
bungalow located on the Boule¬ 
vard one mile from Cambridge, 
Md. Built of blue gray granite, 
latest style red shingle tile roof, 
patented metal strips to windows 
and doors. _ Frontage on water. 
Excellent bathing, fishing and 
oystering. 2}4 acres of well cul¬ 
tivated land. Price, $30,000. 
Without furnishings, $27,500. 
S For Sale, the Nini Moshay 
Ranch, at the bargain price of 
$45.00 per acre. This is the Home 
Ranch, at the bargain price of 
Holstein Development Company 
Limited. 
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It is located one mile west of the 
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north of the Court House, Calgary. 
It consists of 1771 acres of nice 
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Buildings of any ranch in the 
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water and natural shelters for 
stock. 
Would be willing to take a small 
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hundred acres in exchange. 
The Real Estate Mart—House & Garden 
445 Fourth Avenue, New York 
The Ever Essential Rose 
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nature thoroughly drained, artificial 
drainage may be omitted. The soil 
which is removed from the bed in 
the course of preparation should be 
thoroughly enriched with well rotted 
manure and with bone meal, prefer¬ 
ably fine ground and coarse knuckle¬ 
bone, mixed half and half. 
Pertinent Pointers on Culture 
Air drainage is almost as important 
as soil drainage—that is, garden roses 
should never be planted in a hollow 
or cup. The more exposed to the 
summer breezes and currents of air 
they are the better, and this will 
make a great difference in their gen¬ 
eral health, especially in keeping them 
free from mildew and other fungous 
diseases. The addition of wood 
ashes, or even sifted coal ashes to 
the soil is usually beneficial. While 
roses are not as particular about an 
acid soil as many other plants, unless 
you know that your ground is fairly 
sweet, it will be well to test it for 
acidity, and apply raw ground lime¬ 
stone if required. 
W’hat is the best time to set out 
your rose plants will depend upon 
the kind you buy. Dormant roots of 
plants are used very much less today 
than they were years ago. They 
should be set just as soon in the 
spring as the soil can be worked in 
late March or early April. If re¬ 
ceived before planting if possible 
they should be buried in soil, or in 
sand or coal ashes, and put in the 
cellar to keep moist but not w'et. If 
dried and shrunken when received, 
bury them entirely for several days. 
If they clump all right and the roots 
have not been injured, they will be 
all right to plant. 
Roses from pots which have been 
cool grown—that is, field growm 
roses taken up in the fall and potted 
over winter to start growth natural¬ 
ly in the spring—wdll give the surest 
and quickest results. They should 
not be put out until after danger from 
late frost is over. Growing potted 
plants that have been greenhouse 
raised is less satisfactory. 
Be sure that you know what you 
are getting before you buy. While 
some growers prefer roses grown on 
their own roots, the trend of experi¬ 
ence seems to be that grafted or 
budded roses are on the whole more 
satisfactory, and most of the garden 
varieties are now grown this way. 
In planting budded roses be sure 
that the collar or graft, which can 
easily be distinguished by the swell¬ 
ing formed where the union of the 
top and roots has taken place, is put 
2 " below the surface, and keep a 
careful watch at all times to see that 
any suckers or shoots wdiich start 
from below this joint are broken off 
at once. These can be readily dis¬ 
tinguished as they have seven leaflets 
to each leaf instead of five. If al- 
low'ed to grow they will quickly 
crowd out and destroy the top or 
blooming part of the plant. 
The most important part about 
planting is to get the plants in firmly 
enough. Crowd the soil about the 
roots as firmly as is possible with 
the hands, and when the job is fin¬ 
ished make it still more compact by 
allowing your whole weight to rest 
on the balls of the feet placed on 
either side of the stem. The dor¬ 
mant roses should be pruned back 
severely after planting, cutting away 
two-thirds or more of the top; leave 
only from three to five side branches 
and cut these back to within four to 
six buds or eyes of the main stem. 
This may seem like wasting a tre¬ 
mendous amount of the plant that 
you have paid out good money for. 
but it is nevertheless necessary if you 
want the best results. The roots 
should be spread out and slightly 
down in a natural position, and any 
straggling or broken ends cut off be¬ 
fore planting. Pot grown roses will 
usually require little or no pruning 
back in being set out. If they are 
compact, sturdy looking plants, show¬ 
ing no sign of wilting, put them in as 
they are. If tall and inclined to wilt, 
it may be well to sacrifice some of 
the growth when putting them into 
the ground. They should be set a 
little deeper than they were growing 
in the pots. 
One of the points in caring for 
garden roses which is most often 
neglected is that of giving frequent 
cultivation from early in spring 
throughout the growing season. The 
surface should never be allowed to 
crust over or become hard. For this 
purpose there is nothing more con¬ 
venient than the adjustable prong or 
tooth hoe. With this little imple¬ 
ment the soil can be gone over rapidly 
and easily. 
Moisture and Pruning 
Roses to do well require an abun¬ 
dance of moisture in the soil. In dry 
weather it will be best to irrigate 
them, or water them thoroughly with 
the hose. Frequent cultivation and 
mulching the plants by putting around 
them grass clippings, the remains of 
the winter mulch saved for the pur¬ 
pose, or some similar material will 
aid to a great extent in keeping up 
the number and the quality of blooms. 
However it is accomplished the gar¬ 
dener should see that they do not 
suffer. You cannot have good roses 
in dry soil. As they begin to come 
into bloom they will also appreciate 
extra fertilization, especially the use 
of nitrate of soda or liquid manure. 
To provide the latter, sink a half 
barrel in some out-of-the-way cor¬ 
ner, and stand in this a half bushel 
or so of manure, preferably cow 
manure. The resulting liquid, which 
will be free from straw and lumps 
and easy to handle, should be diluted 
two or three times to the color of 
weak tea, and poured about the 
plants after a rain or a thorough 
watering. 
One of the most essential of all 
jobs in the rose garden is, of course, 
pruning. In the case of garden roses, 
spring prune to four or five canes if 
j'ou want large masses of bloom; for 
larger individual blooms, in smaller 
numbers, save all vigorous canes, but 
cut back to 7" or 8" from the root. 
The ramblers and hardy climbers 
should be pruned little, just after 
their flowering season. Rugosas and 
Austrian briars also need little prun¬ 
ing, except to have the old canes cut 
back to the ground every two or 
three years. Where wanted for 
hedges, they can be pruned or headed 
back to any length desired. The baby 
ramblers and polyanthus should be 
thinned out rather than pruned back, 
keeping all old wood, flower sports, 
etc., cut out. 
Preparedness in the Rose Garden 
While the insects and diseases 
likely to attack roses are numerous 
—there being nearly a dozen of the 
former and over a dozen of the lat¬ 
ter—happily most of them by the use 
of modern methods of control can 
be kept in check by the following 
methods and means. 
To begin with, however, one should 
be careful to select onlj^ the most 
vigorous and disease resisting vari¬ 
eties. This, as I have already sug- 
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