HOW TO MAKE ROSES PAY 



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biers, Hybrid Perpetuals and 

 Teas are the most important, 

 and they, too, can be handled 

 nicely by the retail grower with 

 enough room. 



For outdoor planting the 

 Rose holds the position it has 

 occupied from time immemo- 

 rial, at the head of everything 

 else. There is nothing to be 

 compared with a Rose where 

 you have a climate suitable for 

 it. Even when conditions are 

 less favorable, your customers 

 will keep on planting Roses year 

 after year, no matter how poor 

 their success, and it is for the 

 florist to supply the plants. 

 Whether he grows them on 

 himself or not, there is money 

 in handling them. 



For those who use cut flow- 

 ers during the Summer and Fall 

 months certain sorts of Roses 

 can be planted outdoors and 

 made to pay, as for instance, 

 the Ramblers for June and July flowering and the Teas and Hybrids 

 for late flowering. 



Fig. 257. AN ALWAYS SATISFACTORY 

 USE OF ROSES. White blossoms, Lily 

 of the Valley, Adiantum and carefully 

 arranged ribbon, etc., make up this hand- 

 some and effective bride's bouquet 



TEAS AND HYRRID TEAS FOR OUTDOOR PLANTING 



(See List, Chapter VII, page 224) 



There is today hardly a Rose growing under glass which will 

 not do equally well outdoors. Any of the Teas and Hybrid Teas 

 make good Summer bloomers in fact, they are superior in that re- 

 spect to any other class of Roses, and this is the best possible point 

 in their favor. Your customer, to begin with, wants flowers to look 

 at and to cut; next comes the question of varieties and then hardi- 

 ness. Tell your customer you can furnish Roses that will start flow- 

 ering ten days after they are planted and keep it up all through the 

 Summer or Fall, even after the first light frosts, but that will re- 

 quire extra heavy protection over Winter, and you are sure to make 

 a sale. To plant out such Roses from 5-in. pots about the middle of 

 May means action right away. There is no waiting as is the case 

 in planting a dormant Hybrid Perpetual Rose which has been out 

 of the soil since the previous Fall, and of which the roots and wood 



