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Re: New Rose beds -Reply


At 09:58 AM 5/27/98 -0800, you wrote:
>It's actually more than that -- there is some
>"mysterious" rose virus that seems to carry over
>in the soil.  You should remove as much of the
>soil as possible when planting a rose in the
>same place as another one was.  I try to remove
>at least 2 x 2 or more.
>
Oh, I meant soil sickness.  It's the exhaustion of trace elements and the
build up of root diease and rose-root poisons.  You might be talking about
minute eelworms.  Older roses seem to adapt to the conditions.



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