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Excerpt from The Use of Commercial Fertilizers in Growing Roses
Bride and Killarney were the varieties grown the first being a typical tea rose and the latter a hybrid tea; half the plants of each variety were own-root stock and half were grafted. Under the con dirions of fertilizing prescribed by the plan of the experiment, com parisons can also be made between the varieties used and between own-root and grafted stock. One greenhouse 28 feet by 105 feet, containing four benches 4 feet wide, 100 feet long, and 5 inches deep, with an area of square feet. Was used; the experiment begun in 1910-11 was repeated during 1911-12 and 1912-13. The roses propagated about December 1 of the previous year were successively potted into 2-inch and 4-inch pots, and set in the benches about July 10. The dates of setting the plants in the benches were as follows: July 6, 1910; July 13, 1911; July 10, 1912. 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.
