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DREER'S GARDEN CALENDAR. 





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N siibmittin? tliis special list of Roses to our friends and oustnmers, we feel instified in statin;; that our stock tliis 



season is the largest and finest ever otTered ; the flattering letters received from niaiiv of imr (latroiis, as to the 



satisfactory results obtained from jdants purchased <'i lis, have made us feel the necessitv of adding greater faciH- 



ties for the projiagation and cultivation of tliis, the Queen of Flowers. 



We have more tliaii doubled our stock, and are devoting a large ai-ea of glass cxchisively to the cultivation of tlie 



Rose, besides a large tract of land at our Behuont 

 Eose Farm for the cultivation of the more hardy 

 varieties. 



Special attention has also been paid to the varie- 

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

 tained in our list. 



In regard to new sorts, which are often so freely 

 offered, we woukl say that it is our custom to tlior- 

 oughly prove them before ofl'ering them to our 

 trade. 



BELMONT ROSE FARM 



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 tliat 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 November, when the plants are carefully lifted, 

 jiotted and srnred during the winter in cold liou>es 

 at our Eiverton Nursery, as shown in illustration. 



Pot-grown plants of sorts best suited to this culture are also cultivated at our Eiverton" establishment, and stored 



away during the winter in Rose pits. 



This treatment is especially desirable 



for 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 jilaces 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 Eoses, 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 into bloom before it was safe to plant out of doors. Eoses taken 



from a high temperature and subjected to the cool night air of the early spring mouths are invariably checked and 



the flowers ruined. 



Pakti.\l Vie'.v of Belmont Rose Farm. 



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S.iCTioxAL View of Rose Pits without Kike Heat. 



