Never give up a decaying rose bush till you have tried watering it two
or three times a week with soot tea. Make the concoction with boiling
water, from soot taken from the chimney or stove in which wood is
burned. When cold, water the bush with it. When it is used up, pour
boiling hot water on the soot a second time. Rose bushes treated in
this way will often send out thrifty shoots, the leaves will become
large and thick, the blossoms will greatly improve in size and be more
richly tinted than before.--D.H. Jacques.
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