6. Set plants in holes that are large and deep enough to allow natural 
spread of roots and to barely cover the union of the top and understock. 
Fill in the hole with good top soil and tamp firmly around the roots. Put 
no fertilizer in the hole, but work a good complete fertilizer around each 
plant after setting. Cotton seed meal is good, or any complete fertilizer 
recommended for roses. Thereafter use one-fourth to one-half pound for 
each plant at three month intervals, beginning early in spring. Water well at 
time of planting and during a drouth in summer, soak beds thoroughly once 
a week. 
7. Plants should be purchased 'pruned ready to plant;" however, each 
cane may be given a fresh cut at time of planting. Early in spring after the 
first year, prune the bushes back to three to five strong canes the length as 
when set. 
8; Use sulphur dust to prevent and to cure black spot., a disease 
which causes foliage to turn yellow and drop off, then turns the canes black 
and finally causes the plant to die. Begin dusting when the first grown 
leaves appear and continue at eight or ten day intervals up to June 1st. 
9. Cultivate freely to keep top soil loose. Hoe out all weeds and 
grass, and plow or fork the ground to allow air to reach the roots. Loosen 
the soil after each rain or irrigation as it is necessary to maintain at least a 
shallow cultivation. 1 
10. Keep the bloom stems cut off after flowers open, in order to keep 
plants growing and developing new buds. Do not cut stems too long—leave 
two or three leaves at base of stem. 
' ’ Th e World Needs f Moore' Roses’’ 
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