ORDERING 



impossible to get dormant plants. In our opinion 

 plants which have started growth are uncertain but 

 with care will often do well. 



If the ordering is done in the fall and the roses 

 are so late in coming that although the beds have 

 been covered with litter the ground is frozen hard 

 to some depth and it is impossible to plant them, 

 do not, under any circumstances, have them kept 

 indoors during the whiter; for they will then generally 

 sprout and, if planted early, will be set back by the 

 late frosts, or if kept until later will be set back on 

 account of their change after growth has started. 

 It would be wiser to heel the plants in the open 

 ground; that is, dig a trench deep enough to cover 

 the roses half-way up the canes and place the plants 

 therein, filling in with dry earth. 



As we believe that the greater number of budded 

 roses can be properly secured from almost any large 

 nurseryman, the nearest one would perhaps be the 

 best from whom to order. The roses budded by 

 Alex. Dickson & Sons, of Ireland, whom every 

 nurseryman knows, are as good as any foreign roses 

 and will include most varieties. We feel, after 

 having planted many of Dicksons' budded roses, 

 that we can safely recommend them, though by so 

 doing we do not wish to condemn the budded foreign 

 roses of any other grower; we simply have not tried 



