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DREER'S GARDEN CALENDAR. 



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We 



submitting our revised list of Roses to our friends and customers, we feel justified in stating that our stock this 

 season is the largest and finest ever offered ; the flattering letters received from many of our patrons, as to the 

 satisfactory results obtained from plants purchased of us, have made us feel the necessity of adding greater facili- 

 ties for the propagation and cultivation of this, the Queen of Flowers. 



have more than doubled our stock, and are devoting a large area of glass exclusively to the cultivation of the 



Rose, besides a large tract of land at our Belmont 

 Rose Farm for the cultivation of the more hardy 

 varieties. 



Special attention has also been paid to the varie- 

 ties, and we are confident no unworthy sort is con- 

 tained in our list. 



In regard to new sorts, which are often so freely 

 offered, we would say that it is our custom to thor- 

 oughly prove them before offering them to our 

 trade. 



BELMONT ROSE FARM 



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Partial View of Belmont Rose Farm. 



Pot-grown plants of sorts best suited to this cultu 

 away during the winter in Rose pits. 



This treatment is especially desirable 

 fot plants intended for out-door planting; 

 it gives the Roses their natural season of 

 rest, enables the grower to plant early in 

 the spring before the foliage develops, 

 and places them in a condition for starting 

 off vigorously and naturally, thus avoid- 

 ing the risk of diseases that attack plants 

 grown in high temperature in forcing 

 houses. 



This treatment we find specially adapted 

 for Hybrid Perpetual Roses, as we are 

 enabled to furnish our customers plants 

 that will bloom when set out in the open 

 ground, which by the old method was nearly 

 an impossibility, as the high temperature, 

 unavoidable where fire heat was used, pushed them 

 from a high temperature and subjected to the cool 

 the flowers ruined. 



Is located on the Schuylkill Valley branch of the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad, west of Fairmount Park. 

 The soil consists of a stiff, cool, sandy loam, espe- 

 cially favorable to the proper development of 

 strong vigorous plants with good working roots. 

 The young roses that have been propagated during 

 the winter from healthy parentage, are planted 

 out in this soil in April and May, which has been 

 deeply plowed and dug, as well as liberally 

 manured, where they are cultivated until early 

 in Xovember, when the plants are carefully lifted, 

 potted and stored during the winter in cold houses 

 at our Riverton Xursery, as shown in illustration, 

 re are also cultivated at our Riverton establishment, and stored 



Sectional View of Rose Pits without Fire Heat. 



into bloom before it was safe to plant out of doors. Roses taken 

 night air of the early spring months are invariably checked and 



