WATERING 
If the soil around your Roses is kept cultivated, it is 
seldom in need of watering. However, during an extend¬ 
ed drought, it is advisable to water. When you do water 
your Roses, soak the ground thoroughly for hours and 
then do not repeat for a week. It does no harm to. wet 
the foliage occasionally so as to wash it off, but ordinarily it 
is recommended that watering be done on the ground at 
the base of the plants. 
An application of peat in July helps to retain moisture 
and keeps the soil cooler and in better condition for 
Rose growing. 
DISEASE AND INSECT CONTROL 
A little attention and care will remedy the few diseases 
and insects that attack Rose plants. Dusting is preferable 
to spraying, for it is easier and quicker. 
Spray or dust aphids, the small green lice that appear 
about the tips of the shoots, with insecticides containing 
nicotine. Spray or dust worms and insects that eat leaves, 
with a poison, such as arsenate of lead, one of the ingred¬ 
ients 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 the spring, to keep out the carpenter bee, which makes 
a hole in 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, thereby 
protecting the foliage so that it will be retained until frost. 
Mildew, which causes the young leaves to turn white 
and curl, can also be controlled by dusting with Wyant’s 
Massey Dust. 
PLANT WYANT ROSES 
Wyant Roses are the best roses that can be raised. They 
are called 2 years old but in order to give them the highest 
quality possible they are grown a full year longer in our 
nursery than some others. Wyant Roses have three year 
old roots and strong tops. You should see their fine roots. 
What difference does it make to have a 2 year root or a 
3 year root? Just this—there is almost no loss from trans¬ 
planting one of Wyant Roses. They start easily and pro¬ 
duce an average of 40 to 50 blossoms per bush a year. 
Wyant Roses are full of life and vigor. 
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