The Winslow mail., 1924-07-18
LOCAL WOMAN
HAS SUCCESS
WITH ROSES

Mention was made recently in The
Mail, of the garden spot along the
santa Fe, the Santa Fe reading room
and hospital grounds. There are 9th
.er garden spots in this city and one
of them is at the home of Mrs H. E
Young at 216 West Cherry street.
Mrs. Young has wealth of flowers
in her yard, but has made particu-
lar specially of cultivating the hardy
roses. The result is that she now has
IL different varieties of roses in her
garden, including several varieties OF
climbers, one the climbing American
Beauty.
All of her time has not been spent
with these, but she has beds of asters,
dahlias, hollyhocks and other varieties
of flowers which have bloomed or will
develop later into mass of blossoms.
The growing of flowers, especially
roses, has been difficult task here
owing to the wind and heat, which dry
OUT the ground so rapidly.
Roses have been made to thrive by
planting them and then banking high
with earth to conserve the moisture
where it is needed at the roots. Later,
when the plant is set, the earth is
removed on the north and east sides
first, then later on the other sides,
the latter being left to protect the
young plants from the ravages of the
south and west winds until the rainy
season comes and then this bank of
earth is removed and the plant is per-
mitted to pull through ION it's own.
Mrs. Young uses only the hardy
roses, the more tender varieties find
it a difficult matter to weather the
rigors of heat and wind.
She has this year cut more than
two thousand roses from the bushes
in her yard and on Friday, June 20,
she cut a lot of beautiful flowers to
ornament the Masonic lodge room for
an Eastern Star event that evening.
Cultivation of both flower and veg
etable gardens is something of an art,
aud Mrs. Young obtained most of her
information from experiments and ex-
perience.
She found that it did not pay to
plant flower or vegetable seed in the
ground. She discovered it paid bet
ter to plant them on top of the
ground.
She discovered accidentally that
seed dropped on the surface of the
ground and over which some fertilizer
had been placed had grown better
sthan when planted in the ground.
She then adopted the plan of wetting
down the soil we'll, dropping seed upon
it and placing over the seed layer
of fertilizer. This brought the desired
results. In vegetables she runs the
gamut of the usual garden produce
and has some good crops. 1t is the
same with flower seeds. They grow
fine under just the same system.
Roses require severe pruning. Cut
back, cut back, is the motto Water
and plenty of it, is another essential
But surface watering and light water
ing only bring small results. 1t takes
a good soaking of the ground to bring
the best production. This done once
in three days is a better procedure
than just wetting the surface of the
ground, every day.
Another thing, a bit strange to east
erners, is that coal or wood ashes
either one, are useful in the garden
Wood ashes used in the garden is an
old story and their content of potash
and other salts is a valuable addition
but the use of the coal ashes is an
added feature. It is thought the coal
used here produces an ash of value
from the standpoint of fertilizer but
it is certain that the ashes mixed with
the solid soil here renders it more
loose and friable and better adapts il
to cultivation.
George G.. Thomas, Jr., author of g
book, "Roses for All American CHI
mates" had written to Mrs. Young fol
her experience in cultivating roses
here. She wrote of her methods and
was somewhat surprised later to re
ceive copy Of the book and the care
of the author, the book containing hel
method of cultivating roses and ac-
crediting her with the article. Refer
ence is made elsewhere in the same
volume to her words regarding rose
culture in Arizona.
At the time she received the query
she did not know that her experiences
were to be recorded in book form anC
was not aware of it until she received
the book with the authors card.
Mrs. Young has found it a pleasure
not only to grow the flowers, but to
use them as she has generously
throughout the year
To cultivate beautiful rose in {
hot dry country and in the type O.
soil prevalent here is no small ex
plot when one takes into considera
tion the black, damp, moist soil II
which roses are usually cultivated
And, there are a number of homes il
the city where fine roses, especiall,