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CUT NO ROOTS: LEAVE ROOTS ON: CUT NO ROOTS: 
Plant your roses as soon as received, providing the ground is not 
frozen too hard for digging. Pay no attention to cold or wet, as 
roses enjoy cold wet soil in which to establish their roots. 
If you cannot plant at. once leave roses undisturbed in package 
and put them in a cool dark place, where they will keep without 
injury for a week or ten days. Lay the package flat,do not lean 
it against a wall on end. Plant as soon as conditions allow. 
when you open the bundle sce that roots are kept moist. Do not ex- 
pose them to drying winds or sun for a moment. It is best to: keep 
roots in a tucket of water during planting operations. Should the 
roses appear dried out through shipping delay soak them roots and 
tops in water for 72 hours. They may die if they are planted when 
they are dried out. | | 
Put no manure, trash or fertilizer in hole where bush is planted. 
It may cause root canker or burn the roots. Put only clean soil 
ox subsoil on ali sides of roots. This is very important. 
Flant our H.T.'s at least 2} feet apart. If planting a bed make 
a trench or trenches wide enough to spread the roots out and down- 
ward at an angle of 30 degrees, which means a fairly deep trench 
with my large rooted plants. Then spot your bushes along at the 
proper distances and overlap roots if necessary. 
A CONE OF SOIL must be made under the center of each plant, where 
the roots spread downward in all directions, to avoid air pockets. 
Do not put your bushes in a flat trench or hole and try to force 
the roots down against the soil without this center support. 
If planting single bushes make the hole large and deep enough to 
accomodate all roots when spread out and down at an angle of 30 
degrees, not forgetting that SOIL CONE. Ten extra minutes spent 
in planting each bush properly will give you enormously greater 
results. The big roots will work miracles if allowed to. Plant 
the union of rose and understock well above soil level. The high- 
er che union the healthier will be your rose bush, and the longer 
lived. 

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