A Corner in Our Rose Garden 
This covering should be left on the Roses until danger of 
heavy frost is over in the Spring, generally about the first of 
April, when it should be removed and the Roses gone over care¬ 
fully and all the dead wood and weak branches cut away, after 
which a substantial feeding of Cloverset Rose Grower Fertilizer 
or Cloverset Blood and Bone Fertilizer (2% pounds per dozen 
plants) should be worked well into the soil. We have always 
protected our Roses for the Winter according to the above in¬ 
structions, but this Winter we are trying a different program. 
Since the winters for the past six or eight years have been so 
very mild, we don’t believe that the hay covering will be necessary, 
and this Winter our Roses will be cut back 12 to 15 inches high, 
the soil pulled up around the plants as high as possible, the 
little valley between these mounds will be half filled with shredded, 
sterilized cow manure, and the tops we cut off the roses will be 
placed in between the plants. When to take off the hay has 
always been more or less of a problem and so often it has hap¬ 
pened that the hay was taken off too soon or too late, so we 
are going to follow this new plan this Winter and we believe 
in this climate it will work better than where the plants are 
covered heavily with hay. 
To Grow Exhibition Roses 
Hybrid Tea or Monthly Roses usually produce two or more 
lateral buds on the stem below the main or terminal bud. For 
those who desire only one bud on the stem, it will be necessary 
to pinch off the lateral buds when they first show. This will 
cause much larger terminal buds. This procedure is universally 
used in growing greenhouse Roses. 
Cutting Your Blooms 
Hybrid Tea Roses should, if possible, be cut with long stems. 
Long stems can be produced only by securing vigorous growth 
and by planting the Rose plants close enough together to produce 
long stems. Thick timber always means tall timber and where 
weeds grow close together they always grow tall. This same 
rule applies to Roses and every other plant and where Roses 
are planted not over 16 inches apart and vigorous growth is 
secured by proper fertilization and culture, long stems will 
always result. 
In cutting your blooms we have always recommended leaving 
four leaves on the stub, but our experiments last summer have 
convinced us that better growth and a more shapely plant can be 
secured by cutting blooms at a point that will leave eight leaves 
on the remaining stub and this shall be our rule in the future. 
Cow Manure as a Mulch 
We especially recommend Cow Manure as a substitute for 
Peat Moss for mulching Roses and other garden plants. Cow 
Manure never burns either roots or foliage and it does not run 
together but remains loose and fluffy. 
It permits the air to circulate freely through it, reducing the 
tendency of the soil to become sour and unfit for good plant 
growth. Cow Manure as a mulch, shading the soil as it does and 
keeping it cool, prevents rapid evaporation and thereby greatly 
reduces the amount of water necessary to supply the wants of 
plants. As Cow Manure carries a considerable amount of plant 
food, which as it breaks down is gradually fed to the plants, 
we think that with the addition of our Cloverset Rose Grower 
Fertilizer or with our Cloverset Blood and Bone, it provides the 
ideal combined mulch and fertilizer and at a very reasonable price. 
PRICES Sterilized shredded Cow Manure is packed in 50 
pound bags. Price, per bag—$1.00. 
Lime 
Roses require lots of water. At the same time, they prefer soil 
that is sweet. Excessive watering has a tendency to make the 
soil acid or sour, so to counteract this condition we use generous 
quantities of lime in our soil in our potting operations and in 
our Rose Beds. We suggest that Via inch of our Agricultural 
Powdered Limestone be thrown on the soil before the bed is 
dug up in preparing a rose bed, and on beds that have been 
several years in use, we suggest that about )46 inch of this 
limestone be placed on the soil each Spring and hoed in. A light 
sprinkling of lime, just enough to whiten the ground, several 
times during the Summer is also beneficial. We offer Agricultural 
Ground Limestone in 50 pound bags at 50 cents per bag. 
CLOVERSET ROSE GROWER 
A Balanced Fertilizer Specially Prepared for Roses 
Cloverset Rose Grower, a new product with us, but having a 
much higher nitrogen content than Blood and Bone. As nitrogen 
is the element needed in plant growth to produce rank growth, 
and as Blood and Bone contained very little nitrogen we believe 
you will find our new fertilizer of great benefit to your Roses. Any 
fertilizer with high value in nitrogen will burn foliage and blooms, 
therefore , we caution our friends to be careful not to get it on the 
leaves or buds. Cloverset Rose Grower is a chemical fertilizer. 
PRICES 5 lb. Paper Bags, each 35c; 10 lb Paper Bags, each 
60c; 50 lb. Cloth Bags, each $2.50; 100 lb. Cloth Bags, each $4.00; 
full directions for use on package. 
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