m a manner to 



View of Rose house in Winter skoiviiig upwards of one liKiidred thousand dormant plants 

 in pots, all correctly labeled ready to send out in April a?id May 



Roses for the amateur for outdoor planting, are one of the special features of our 



KOSe JJepartment Greenhouse and Nursery establishment — not millions of tiny specimens to be 



'^ distributed by mail, but mostly large, two j-ear old plants of a size and prepared 



give immediate returns to the planter. The majority of these are plants which have either been grown 



at our Locust Farm Nurseries or plants which are grown for us 

 under contract by some of the principal Rose experts in the most 

 favored localities in the United States, England and Ireland. These 

 plants are all field-grown, and, when in a dormant condition in the 

 late fall and early winter months are potted up principally into five 

 and six inch pots and are stored in cold greenhouses \\here only 

 sufficient heat is used to prevent severe freezing. The plants 

 treated in this manner recei\"e their natural period of rest and 

 " break away" freely in spring so as to give the best possible 

 returns to the planter the first season, not requiring nursing for one 

 or two j-ears to bring them to a size to produce flowers of 

 standard quality. 



It has been our aim in Roses, the same as in other classes of 

 plants, to limit the number of varieties to such standard sorts of 

 known merit that are most likely to give the best results under 

 ordinary garden cultivation, rather than to offer long lists of varieties 

 many of which necessarily are similar or inferior in qualit}-. Hundreds of new 

 varieties of Roses are introduced every year, and, while we do not lose sight 

 of these, comparatively few are offered by us each season, as we make it a 

 rule to either thoroughly test such new sorts ourseh'es before offering them or 

 otherwise accepting them only on the endorsement of specialists of unquestion- 

 able reliabilitv. 



Vie'w of the same house of Roses as shown above when the plants are in 



leaf late in April and ready to send out 



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