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Protect for the Winter by covering bed at least 6 inches 
with leaves or manure; a binding surface of dirt, cornstalks 
or boughs on top. A convenient method is to confine this 
dressing by an enclosure of 12-inch chicken wire. 
Pruning. Roses are usually shipped with most of their 
wood, but it is a mistake on the part of many planters to 
put them in the ground untrimmed. The weak shoots are 
usually removed by us before sending stock out, so that what 
the customer gets is all ready to plant except cutting back. 
Hybrid Perpetual Roses should be cut back, every shoot, to 
about 6 to 8 inches above the crown or that part above 
the roots where the stem begins to branch. Teas and 
Hybrid Teas need not be cut back quite so hard; the 
Polyanthas not at all unless stems are too numerous. Every 
Spring, usually the fore part of March, just before the leaf 
buds begin to swell, these classes should be treated similarly 
and the winter covering gradually removed. The Rugosas 
are pruned merely to keep their growth within bounds and 
to remove dead wood; the Hardy Climbers are merely 
trimmed, and inasmuch as their bloom comes only on wood 
made the season before, the safest and most beneficial time 
for pruning is immediately after their blooming season and 
before they make new summer growth. Suckers from the 
Manetti stock should be cut off at once, and may be recog¬ 
nized by a difference in color and arrangement of seven 
leaves, instead of five, as in almost all varieties of Roses. 
Do not be afraid of the knife; the flowers will be larger 
and richer in color, and the bed more sightly. 
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Treatment on Arrival. If upon arrival the roots seem 
to be very dry, soak them thoroughly in water; if the 
stems as well are too dry, bury the entire plant in the 
ground for two or three days. At no time after unpacking 
should the roots be exposed to the sun or dry winds; a 
very little neglect at this time working serious if not fatal 
injury to the bush. 
Planting. In preparing a Rose Bed, select a sunny loca¬ 
tion guarded from cold north winds, if possible. Dig out 
the beds to a depth of two or three feet and about three 
feet in width; then refill the trench with a mixture of soil 
(any good fertile soil will do) and well rotted cow manure, 
making provision for good drainage if location is not nat¬ 
urally drained. Time should be allowed for this filling to 
settle, the final top surface being an inch or two below the 
edges of the bed. Do not raise the surface of Rose beds above 
the surrounding surface. They suffer less from drought when 
left level with the turf. Plant your Roses in the center, being 
very particular to press and tramp the soil firmly around 
the roots; and soaking the bed thoroughly at the finish. 
The Everbloomers may be set 18 inches apart, the Hybrid 
Perpetuals about 2 feet. After the plants have been set 
out, keep the soil loose to the depth of an inch or two, by 
frequent stirrings. An occasional soaking with weak 
manure water is a great help to Roses of all sorts, and is 
especially active during the blooming season. Towards the 
end of July, a mulch of long-strawed manure will aid in 
preserving what moisture is in the soil during the cus¬ 
tomary droughts of the “Dog Days.” 
Betty Unrichard. (H. T.) A pretty combination of colors, inner face 
of petals delicate salmon pink to carmine, outside glowing carmine with 
coppery sheen and orange suffusion; well-formed medium-sized flowers 
of good substance and sweet scented. 
Dame Edith Helen. A magnificent, fragrant, full-bodied new rose of 
many substantial petals which curl back prettily, holding steadily to one 
vivid pink color, and that the rare Rose du Barri shade. 
E. G. Hill. Outstanding new red garden Rose. The long buds are of 
perfect form, opening into full double flowers of dazzling scarlet color. 
A strong grower and free bloomer. 
Etoile de Hollande. Brilliant dark, glistening red. Very fragrant. 
A practically faultless rose that holds its color into late Fall. 
Golden Dawn. An ideal yellow garden Rose. The buds are heavily 
splashed with crimson and develop into full double flowers of exquisite 
light lemon-yellow color. Slight fragrance. 
Joanna Hill. The wonderful new yellow Rose pronounced by whole¬ 
salers, and retailers as well, to be the best yellow Rose yet introduced. 
It is a seedling of Amelia Gude and Mme. Butterfly. The blooms are clear 
yellow, deepening at the center, and hold their color under artificial light. 
Margaret McGredy. A masterpiece. Large, brilliantly colored double 
flowers of an entrancing shade of rich Oriental red, passing to carmine- 
rose. Spicy fragrance. 
Marion Cran. A truly remarkable novelty exhibiting a brand-new 
color expression with each phase of its flower development. At first—- 
deep buttercup yellow, margined and flushed cerise. Next, as it opens— 
the outside of petals retain their color, but the inside is geranium-scarlet 
flushed yellow and veined in orange. At last—the whole is rosy scarlet 
overlaid deep cerise, with a flush of buttercup. 
Joanna Hill 
Rev. F. Page-Roberts. (H. T.) A fine rose of a vigorous habit, with 
good shaped blooms carried erect on long stiff stems. Orange-yellow, 
becoming lighter at the edges of the petals. Fragrant. 
Talisman. The most gorgeous assemblage of colors in one flower ever 
presented by a Rose. Here are the strong colors exhibited, mostly in well 
defined angular blocks; gold, apricot-yellow, blood-orange, deep pink 
and old rose. The bud is long and shapely, developing into medium-sized, 
compactly double flowers; a free-bloomer, with glossy foliage. 
SPECIAL OFFER 
We will mail postpaid one each of 
six varieties from the above list for 
$5.00. 
