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Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15347, 10 April 1920, Page 2

A chemist recommends the following for rose bushes: —51bs well-rotted stable manure,1 loz bone manure, and 1 oz dried blood. This to be an annual dressing, apart altogether * from the spring and annual mulch. In late autumn give a, liberal dressing of lime and £oz of Epsom salts. This treatment is to be applied to each rose bush". If stable manure is hard to obtain, the following dressing is advised:—£lb dried blood mixed with 2oz ibone manure per tree, coupled with a dressing of iroz sodium nitrate in the spring.. Lime and magnesia as above. The use of Epsom salts as a rose manure is a novelty to the rosarian, but- this substance supplies the magnesia which is so much needed by roses.

During inspection of troops at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin no civil official will be permitted to accompany the Prince of Wales. This is in accordance with precedent regarding Royal inspection of troops.