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garden with a bucket of water in hend. Cut all buds in a stage 
Suitable for bringing in she house; and souse each bud in your 
Water bucket to ruin the thrips in them. This attended to,snap 
off all fully opened-.blooms and leave them in the water bucket. 
Put each bloom in the bucket as you take it off, for if you try 
to carry a handful around with you you will scatter many thrips. 
When your rose garden presents a neat appearance of tight buds 
mix your gas spray and use it thoroughly. As the gas will of 
course escape in time, use all gas sprays as soon as mixed. 
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WATE RIN G. 
All modern Hybrid Tea roses are evexyhlooming, that is, capable 
of producing bloom from early spring to frost under gocd cul- 
tural. conditions. An abundance of WATER is by far the most inm- 
portant factor assuring constant bloom. Flooding the beds is 
be fae the finest method of watering, and is simplicity itself 
if You have had the foresight to leave the level of rose beds 
a couple of inches below surroundings. If it is absolutely 
necessary to water by sprinkling work out a watering schedule 
that will not allow your foliage to remain wet for more thar 
five hours, taking night dew into consideration. 
Do not let a hard crust form after watering. This allows th§ 
moisture to escape in a hurry. Cultivate your beds, making 4 
dust mulch, or use a mulch of some thing such as peat moss or 
buckwheat hulls. Don't undo your watering by letting the soil 
get hard and dry immediately. 
THOROUGHLY ADEQUATE WATERING means soaking the ground to a , 
depth of at least two feet whenever you water. Ascertain the 
depth of penetration by probing. If you do this, a watering. 
every ten days is fully adequate watering. BUT many people 
who keep their rose beds always damp on top, (which makes th 
mildew problem worse) have the roots of their roses perishing 
for water in the dry soil a few inches down, soil never soaked 
all summer through. Rose beds under TREES are especially like+ 
ly to suffer in this fashion. 
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