and NOT CRAMPED AND CROWDED. Make holes deep enough to cover 
the place where the plant was budded or the joining of the upper part of the 
bush to the understock. Press the soil firmly around the roots and barely 
cover the union of the upper plant to the understock. If your climate is 
severe enough that you need to give plants winter protection, then mound the 
earth several inches high around the plants. This mound can be leveled in the 
spring. When growth begins in the spring, the bed should be well cultivated 
to remove all weeds and grass and to loosen the earth so that the plants can 
grow. 
Your Rose Bed should be cultivated several times during the early 
summer to rid the ground of all grass and weeds and to preserve the moisture 
in the soil. If your Roses suffer from summer drouth, water the bed thor¬ 
oughly about once a week. It is far better to soak the bed thoroughly from 
beneath the foliage than it is to sprinkle the plants every day or so. 
To prevent and cure disease such as black spot, apply dusting sulphur 
to the first full grown foliage of your Rose Bushes and continue applications 
at eight or ten day intervals during the period from March 1 to June 1. Lice 
on the leaves can be killed by spraying plants with Black Leaf 40. 
A good fertilizer for Roses is liquid manure, made from soaking animal 
manure or commercial sheep-manure in water. Apply at the rate of a half 
gallon to each plant every two weeks after they are growing well. Also a 
trowel-full of bone-meal and another of sheep-manure worked about each 
plant twice each season will give satisfactory results. 
In closing, just a word about pruning. Request that the Roses you order 
be shipped to you pruned ready for planting. No more pruning will be 
necessary the first season. When new growth begins to put out the second 
spring after planting, cut all canes back to about eight or ten inches. To 
prune the bushes back in this manner will cause your Roses to produce great 
quantities of beautiful blooms. 
“THE WORLD 
NEEDS 
‘MOORE’ ROSES” 
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