Duke Floral Gardens
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 38
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Excerpt from Fall-Spring, 1929-1930 Page 2plants are dormant The soil for roses cannot be made too rich, by broadcasting stable manure in fall and spading to a depth of six to ten inches. They should be plant ed in sunny location, giving dis tance of 3 to 4 feet. Roses should be pruned during latter part of December or during January and then, only to extent of removing dead and exhausted branches. It is safe plan to remove about one third of present year's growth making your bushes shapely. Some varieties require very little or no pruning at all, while those of straggling habit of growth have to be pruned more severely. After pruning roses give them thorough spraying, using powdered Lime Sulphur, Scaiicide, or Sunico Oil. This will control scale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.