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the shears toward the eye, incline the guard downwards, 
and make a slanting cut as close to the eye as possible. 
This prevents bruising the eye and insures more rapid 
healing, thereby excluding destructive insects. 
In pruning older bushes, the age, size and vigor of the 
plant will determine in each case the number of main 
stems to leave and the number of breaks each stem 
should carry. A trial-and-error method, coupled with a 
little common sense, soon teaches one how to do this. The 
life of the plant is controlled by pruning. A slight yearly 
increase in its size is essential. When the plant becomes 
too large, some of the old gnarled trunk should be cut 
back to the ground, encouraging the building of a new 
bush with the clean fast growing ground canes which 
usually come with the fall growth. Given proper cutting 
of flowers and sensible, moderate pruning, your plants 
will retain their vigor at eight years or older. 

BEAN STRAW 
We can now supply bean straw both in the bale and 
ground for mulching. To our knowledge there is nothing 
better for use in Rose Beds. The bales are coarse heavy 
fiber suitable for use in the bottom of the hole when plant- 
ing. The ground or chopped straw is cut to one inch or 
less in length and sent out in huge beet pulp sacks hold- 
ing nearly a bale. 
Bales Regular Bean Straw .......... $1.50 each 
Sacks Chopped Bean Straw..........$1.50 each 
Add 3 per cent Sales Tax in California. 
The above prices on Bean Straw are delivered in the 
Metropolitan Los Angeles area which we reach by truck 
only. Elsewhere quoted f.o.b. Puente, California. 



Vigoro 
ViGORO [O01 Cen eee $3.50 
: Complete Plant Food 
FOR LAWNS, FLOWERS Zoat be baa. Me he siee. ee $1.40: 
VEGETABLES, SHRUE 
Steer Manure 
2% cubic feet of “Swift's Im- 
proved Red Steer Manure,” 
packed in paper sacks for 
easy handling. 45 cents each. 

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