PLANTING 
If you want successful Hoses, plant the bushes close 
together so that the foliage will keep the ground shaded 
and cool. Twelve to 15 inches is the rule for the Hybrid 
Teas, the taller varieties being placed for the best effect. 
Colors in Roses seldom clash, although you will enjoy find¬ 
ing your favorite combinations. 
Spade the soil down 15 to 18 inches, add plenty of 
manure, if it is available, and if drainage is needed, the 
bed should be tiled and surplus water carried away. Guard 
against the roots drying out from exposure to sun, wind 
or freezing during planting. Do not use chemical fetilizer 
when planting Wyant Roses; bonemeal and rotten manure 
only may be used at planting time. 
PRUNING 
When a Rose is set in the spring, shorten the strong 
branches to six or eight inches, and the weaker even more. 
Heap the soil as high as the branches are pruned, to pro¬ 
tect against drying out, until the roots become established. 
Remove this bank of soil when the shoots come, so that the 
bud, or crown, is about level with the soil surface. Cul¬ 
tivate the soil every week, especially after the rains. 
If you want 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 from the big strong canes which 
have shot up from the base of the plant, leave enough of 
the stem to form the structure of a bush. Cut the side 
branches back to one or two leaves. 
The only fall pruning recommended is shortening tall 
bushes, down to about two feet, so that they will not 
windwhip. The real pruning for established bushes is given 
in the spring when the bank of soil is removed. At this 
time remove dead wood from the Hybrid Teas and cut 
the strong branches down to the highest big live bud. 
Shorten or remove weak growths. 
Hybrid Perpetuals can be shortened down about one 
third and from climbers the dead wood should be removed. 
In July, after the first big burst of bloom is over, you may 
again prune climbers. The weak branches of Polyanthas 
should be cut down and the strong ones shortened one half. 
SOILS 
In years past, the opinion was that Roses should have 
a clay soil, but our present day Roses will grow in almost 
any soil, if it has food or humas incorporated into it. 
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