in the latter part of August, not after September 1st. Each time^ 
apply about a handful to medium strong bushes, less to weaker, and 
more to stronger bushes. 
WATERING 
If the soil around your Roses is kept cultivated, it will seldom be 
in need of watering. However, during an extended 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 put on in July and left the rest of the sea¬ 
son 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 in¬ 
sects 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 or rotenone. 
Spray or dust worms and insects that eat leaves, with a poison, 
such as arsenate of lead, one of the ingredients 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 about every week, and more often in rainy 
weather. Apply a light even coat with a gun on a calm evening 
before the dew, if possible, thereby protecting 1 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 or 
Wyant’s Rose Dust. 
It is so important to keep your roses healthy and so easy to do 
it with our dust and gun that it gives considerable added satisfac¬ 
tion when you retain the foliage on the bushes throughout the sea¬ 
son and get that marvelous crop of blooms in the fall. Start dust¬ 
ing early and be conscientious about continuing it often. 
WINTER STERILIZATION OF ROSE BED 
Dr. Massey of Cornell University who is the leading authority on 
Rose diseases in this country, states that there is no scientific evi¬ 
dence to show that dormant spraying is worth while but in my own 
garden I spray with Lime-sulphur, dormant strength and I find that 
Black-spot is much easier to prevent than it used to be before I used 
a dormant spray. In the early winter before I give the roses their 
winter protection, I spray the plants and the ground around them. 
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