wo OPER EE are two_distinet meth- 
ods of propagating Rose 
plants or bushes. One by 
budding or grafting a small 
bud or graft of the true 
Rose onto the root of wild 
manettia, sweetbriar or ru- 
gosa, and the other is by 
growing them on their own 
roots. The first method is 
the one employed by Euro- 
pean growers. The cost of 
producing a budded plant is 
i very small; first, on account 
of the cheap labor employed, and second, on account 
of the cost of the wild roots and the bud. A Rose 
bush will produce a great quantity of eyes, buds or 
‘grafts, and each one if used in budding or grafting 
on wild roots makes a budded or grafted Rose bush, 
and of course can be sold at a very low price at a 
good profit. These are the ones sent to America by 
European growers to nurserymen, seedsmen and de- 
partment stores, and they can sell them cheaply 
because they are cheap. 
The method employed by us to produce an own 
root plant is to take a branch of the mother plant, 
with two, three or more eyes or buds, and place in 
sand until roots are formed on this branch. It is 
then planted in pots and grown until they attain the 
size desired. These plants have to be shifted fre- 
quently into larger pots. This method of growing 
Roses in this country is very much more expensive 
than producing the budded plants, but these own 
root plants are worth many times more than the 
budded ones, on account of their lasting qualities. 
A budded plant has a very weak top or branch, the 
wild root is the only strong part about it, and as a 
result the top soon dies and the roots put forth 
strong shoots, which are neither useful nor ornamen- 
tal, as they produce no bloom and foliage is unsight- 
ly. An own root plant after once established is 
everlasting, as, if the top should be killed, it comes 
up from the roots stronger than before and of the 
same variety as the original. Buying cheap plants 
to save money is like stopping a clock to save time. 
Don’t be induced to buy budded or grafted Roses, no 
matter how cheap, but start right with these own 
root plants that have given so much satisfaction for 
over 60 years. These are the kind found so often in 
the old garden of our grandparents and many still 
growing there today attesting to the sterling quali- 
les of this own root stock. 
Buy Direct from the Grower 
In purchasing direct from the grower you save the middleman’s profit and secure the best. 
not jobbers but maintain thousands of square feet of ground under glass in order to produce the stock we 
sell, and grow them in as natural a way as it is possible to do. These are not the cheap department store 
or nurseryman’s roses which are usually secured from Holland and budded stock, and nine times out of 
ten you do not know what kind you are getting, whether a common climber or a bush rose, as the im- 
porter receives no guarantee from the grower and they in turn cannot give you any. So when buying roses 
purchase them from a reliable firm, one who has made a Jife study of growing the best kind suited for the 
We are 
amateur grower. 
APRIL, MAY, JUNE and JULY are IDEAL MONTHS for planting POT GROWN ROSES and other 
plants. 
If this book should happen to reach you late in the season you may think it too late to plant out any- 
thing, but we wish to say that our plants are now grown in pots, and can be safely planted any time during 
the growing season with perfect safety, especially if you will have them shipped with the soil on their roots, 
their growth will not be checked in the least. 
Instructions for Ordering 
Our terms are cash with order, except where satisfactory bank reference is given, when we will gladly’ 
if one-half of order is remitted with order. 
open an account. Goods will be shipped C. O. D., 
Money may 
be sent at our risk by Post Office Money Order, Express Money Order, Bank Draft, Money (not stamps) 
in Registered Letter. 
and, if lost, will give full value. 
postage stamps have no value here. 
Please observe carefully. When ordering, please 
use the order sheet provided for the purpose. when- 
ever possible. Simply fill up the blanks, giving the 
number and rame of the varieties wanted, with size 
and price; we will understand. 
Order Early. Many of our customers order early, 
and the plants are set.aside; the earlier you order 
the better. We will book for delivery whenever you 
direct. 
Parcel Post C. O. D. If you desire your order, no 
matter how small, sent C. O. D. by Parcel Post we 
can do so, at an additional cost of only 10 cents, and 
the small fee for the money order which is 3 cents 
up to $2.50; 5 cents up to $5.00, making it much 
cheaper than by express, aS you: have no express 
We will be responsible for the safe carriage of money sent us in any of these ways, 
Please do not send stamps for money. 
or stuck to the letter, so that they cannot be taken out except by soaking. 
by International Money Order on West Grove, Bank Draft, or currency in Registered Letter. 
They often come stuck together, 
Canadian customers can remit 
Canadian 
charges and additional charge for returning the 
money. 
Canadian Customers. Canadian laws prohibit send- 
ing dormant Roses or Shrubs in Canada except from 
March 15 to May 15, and from October 7 to Decem- 
ber 7. All other goods, including our pot-grown 
Roses, from 3% inch pots and smaller, grown under 
glass, are admitted at any time. 
Foreign Orders. Twenty per cent extra should be 
added to orders going outside of United States proper 
to pay extra cost of packing and postage. To coun- 
tries with which we have a parcel post, goods can be 
sent by mail. They also can be sent by express, but 
the person ordering must give the name and address 
of some one in New York who will receive the goods, 
prepay the ocean charges and forward them. 
