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Stell Rose Nursery, Route 9 , Tyler, Texas 
CULTURE 
ROSES, like most other plants, like a fertile loam, well drained 
soil, but with a little help can be made to succeed in most any condi¬ 
tion and soil. 
If soil is too stiff to work well, add sand, common builders 
sand. If soil is too loose, add clay—any old hillside clay. 
Barnyard manure is fine fertilizer but is also incubator for 
fungus disease. If you have wet growing season you will never be 
able to control blacksppt. Better use cottonseed meal. Unless soil is 
sour never use bone meal, lime or ground limestone or wood ashes. 
Never Let Any Fertilizer Come in Direct Contact With Roots. Better 
to apply to top of soil letting rain carry down to roots. Do not 
fertilize too heavily, so as to get too rank growth, for then if weather 
checks growth you are going to have blackspot. Keep bush growing 
steadily if possible, and it will take care of itself. Remember your 
bush is sick before it can‘take disease or borers. 
Roses like soil slightly acid or sour, will stand small quantities 
of alkali (lime, gypsum, sodium, potash), but where these elements 
are too strong, wilt die of’ indigestion, unless soil is treated with 
sulphate of aluminum, pjire sulphur or best, sulphate of iron. 
When your package arrives do not open till ready to plant. 
Then put all plants in tiib oif 'water deep enough to cover roots and let 
them stay there till planted, taking out each plant when ready to plant. 
Do not cramp roots. Be sure soil is placed around roots well, with 
no air pockets around roots:’- ‘Water well and mound soil six inches 
high over top of bush .to- protect from drying winds and freezes. 
Do not let this soil stay tOo^ long as bush will sour. 
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