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HORTICULTURE 



April 4, 1908 



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HARDY ROSES FOR THE GARDEN 



Strong Fiett/'groyi/n Plants 



The roses here offered are extra strong two-year-old field-grown blooming plants, 

 which if planted early, will give a large number of flowers the first year. They can 

 be planted as early in the spring as the frost is out of the ground, and from that 

 time until about the first week m May. We offer a grand collection of the best and 

 choicest varieties, as follows : 



HYBRID PERPETUAL OR JUNE ROSES 



Frau Karl Druschki, Marchioness of Londonderry. Capt. Hayward, Mrs. R. Q. 

 SharmaO'Crawford, Ulrich Brunner, Margaret Uickson, Baron de Bonstetten, 

 Paul Neyron, Oen. Jacqueminot Magna Charta, Hrs John Lamg Mme. Oabrielle 

 Luizet, Marshall P. Wilder, Oloire de i aris, Baroness de Rothschild, Prince 

 Camille de Kohan. Fisher Holmes, Alfred Colomb, Soleil d'Or, Persian Yellow, 

 Moss Roises, Rugofa alba and rubra, etc. 



MONTHLY AND HYBRID TEA ROSES 



Etoile de France, hillarney. flme. Abel Chatenay, Countess of Gosford, Koenigen 

 Carola, Perle von Qodesberg, (jius.i an Teplitz. Maman Ci chet. White Maman 

 Cochtt. Belle Siebrecht, Hermosa, flme. Caroline Testuut, iouv. de Pres. Carnot, 

 Raiserin Augusta Victoria, American Beauiy, La France, Clothilde 5oupert, 

 P- ince de Bulgarle, Mme. Norbert Levavasseur (Baby Rambler), Anny Huller 

 (Pink Baby Rambler), Catherine Ziemet (>\hiie Baby Rambler), etc. 



In Climbing Roses we have a nice stock of Crimson Rambler, Lady Gay, Dorothy Perkins, Dawson, 



Gardenia, Tausendschon, etc. 



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ET US KNOW THE QJANTIfY YOU WANTJAND VARIETIES, AND WE WILL BE GLAD TO QUOTE LOWEST PRICES ON SAME i1 RETURN MAIL. 



R. PIERSON CO,, Tarrytown-on-Hudson, New York 



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two good men to plant, and one at 

 least to pound down. Six or eight men 

 working well together will plant 4000 

 young plants in a day if the beds are 

 ready prepared. In planting it is well 

 to grade the plants as they are set 

 out of the flats, placing the larger 

 ones in the back row and the smallest 

 In the front. I would not leave too 

 much dish around each plant as with 

 the frequent syringing necessary at 

 this time they collect too much water. 



Replanting Old Stock. 

 In replanting one year or more old 

 stock we use no line or marker but 

 commence at one end of the house 

 digging up, clearing out old loam, 

 throwing in new and resetting at one 

 time. We do not like to do more 

 than necessary of this for it takes five 

 men a month to go through 10,000 

 square feet of bench and thoroughly 

 overhaul it and costs $1,000.00. Three 

 . years seems to be about the limit of 

 age for profit. It has been said that 

 Richmond should be replanted every 

 year; this is not necessary with us 

 and others report the same. A feature 

 of Richmond is that while grafted 

 stock makes a larger plant in the fall, 

 giving one or two crops before the 

 own root plants come into bearing. 



The Roses that Win 



MRS. POTTER PALMER, CARDINAL 



American Beauty and O'her Standard 



Varieties. Rooted from Our Famous Stock. 



Send for Prices. 



POEHLMANN BROS. CO. 



Morton Crove, III, 



in the middle of winter the self-rooted 



stock is livelier than the grafted and 

 will throw up long shoots from the 

 bottom four to six weeks earlier than 

 the grafted. 



Disposition of the Surplus. 



After planting we give a thorough 

 watering around the plant without 

 wetting the whole bed and after that 

 we give no more water for from one to 

 three weeks as the case may require 

 but rely on syringing and cultivating 

 to keep things moving. Keep the soil 

 stirred once a week among newly 

 planted sitock. It can be done quicker 

 than the weeds can be pulled out, 

 which come if the soil is not scratched 

 over, and is of incalculable benefit to 

 the plants. As soon as the planting 

 is finished all left over stock can be 

 planted out in the field where it will 

 take care of itself and, unless required, 

 it can be left there until just before 

 the ground freezes in the fall, when it 

 can be brought in and potted or planted 

 thickly on a bench in a cool house, 

 where they will make good plants for 

 Easter or Memorial Day. If lifted 

 about the first of September they will 

 make acceptable plants in pots for 

 Christmas. Liberty makes a splendid 

 rose for this purpose. If established 

 in pots in the summer, treated as a 

 hybrid in early fall. It can be well 

 flowered for Christmas. If needing 

 room now for replanting, any healthy 

 plants to be dug up, if potted, will be 

 fine for Memorial Day. Last year we 

 had SCO plants of Liberty in a house 

 with Brides and 'Maids. They did well 

 up to Christmas, but after that they 

 refused to work. About the first of 



March we trimmed the weak wood out 

 of them, and as they grew kept them 

 pinched back until the 15th of April. 

 Between the 15th of May and the 15th 

 of June we cut over 10,000 good flowers 

 from these plants. About eight weeks 

 before Christmas is late enough for 

 the final pinching back for Christmas 

 fiowers. 



This method of holding back flowers 

 Is not so new as some may imagine 

 as it was practiced in the middle west 

 20 years ago. In regard to drying off 

 plants to be carried over to another 

 jear it seems as if more harm is done 

 by too much drying off than other- 

 wise. The beds will dry naturally in 

 the heat of the summer; the wood 

 should never shrivel and foliage should 

 be syringed enough to keep down 

 spiders. This summer treatment Is 

 where local conditions and soils call 

 for different treatment. 



Syringing. 



Syringing is another operation whch 

 calls for discretion. Is it paradoxical 

 when we read, do not let roses get 

 soft, and do not let them get hard. In 

 notes written on the subject? The 

 softness to be avoided is of the foliage 

 and young shoots caused by insuffici- 

 ent air, too much fire and syringing; 



RHEA REID 



READY NOW, Own Root, $30 per too. 

 Grafted, $35 per too. 



AMERICAN BEAUTY 



Fine Young Stock, $6 per too, $50 per 1000. 



THEE. 6. HILL CO., Richmond, Ind. 



