ROSES For Your Garden! 
T RULY, the best loved of all flowers, no garden is complete without 
roses. The beauty of form, the rich fragrance and vivid foliage of the 
rose are incomparable. Neosho Roses are all two year old field grown, 
number one stock of exceptionally high quality and possess a vitality and 
strength which gives you a long start towards success in rose growing. 
Proper Care Brings a Rich Reward of Glorious Bloom 
Location —Roses must have at least 
half a day’s sunlight and they cannot 
thrive in competition with the roots of 
trees. 
Soil —A clay loam is preferable but 
any ordinary garden soil thoroughly 
mixed with a large proportion of 
humus (well-rotted manure or vege¬ 
table matter) will give satisfactory re¬ 
sults. 
Planting Distances— 
Hybrid Tea..18 to 24 inches 
Hybrid Perpetuals.24 to 30 inches 
Polyantha . 9 to 12 inches 
Climbers on banks.2 y 2 to 4 feet 
Climbers on fences.8 to 12 feet 
Preparation of Soil —Dig the ground 
18 to 24 inches deep and mix in thor¬ 
oughly a generous supply of well- 
rotted manure. If the soil is gravelly 
or sandy, mix in some clay. An ideal 
mixture is one-third each of top soil, 
clay and manure. 
Planting —When roses arrive, soak 
thoroughly in water or bury entire 
plant a day or two in soil. Avoid ex¬ 
posure of plants to sun or wind. Cut 
off ends of any bruised or broken 
roots. Set budded roses two inches 
lower than they stood in the nursery. 
Spread roots out carefully in holes and 
tamp soil closely about them within 
about two inches of the surface of the 
ground, pour in plenty of water and fill 
up the hole with loose dirt. In fall or 
spring planting mound dirt up around 
the tops 8 or 10 inches above the 
ground. 
Pruning at Planting Time —Cut out 
all but 3 or 4 strong canes and head 
these back to 3 to 4 eyes. If planted in 
the fall more wood can be left to be 
cut off in the spring. 
Care After Planting —Keep top soil 
lightly stirred during growing season. 
After flower buds begin to form, pour 
about a half a gallon of weak liquid 
manure around each plant weekly as 
long as the plant blooms. Half a barrel 
of manure to a barrel of water is the 
proper proportion. Vigoro can be 
used, scattering a generous handful 
about each plant about once a month 
and watering it into the ground. Fre¬ 
quent spraying with water will help 
to keep the leaves healthy. This will 
also help to check insect pests such as 
aphis and red spider. 
Pruning 
Hybrid Teas should be cut back every 
spring to 3 or 4 eyes, the more vigorous 
varieties like the Radiance to 5 or 6 
eyes. 
Hybrid Perpetuals are cut back to 
about 18 to 20 inches from the ground. 
Heading back moderately after the 
June blooming will increase blooming 
in the fall. Both of the above classes 
bloom on one-year wood only so that 
regardless of their age, one-year wood 
only should be left above the ground. 
Polyantha (Baby Roses) require lit¬ 
tle pruning except cutting out the older 
twigs and removing interfering 
branches. 
Climbers —As soon as they are 
through blooming, the cluster class 
like Excelsa should have the old canes 
cut off at the ground and the new 
canes trained on the support. With the 
larger bloom class like Dr. Van Fleet," 
some of the old canes are cut out and 
some are partly cut back according to 
the growth it has made. All old flower 
stems should be cut back to about 
an inch from the main stem. Spring 
pruning of climbers is then limited to 
shaping of the plant. 
Rugosa roses require only the re¬ 
moval of old or undesirable canes. 
Hugonis roses need only gradual re¬ 
newal by removal of old canes. 
Winter Protection —Hybrid Teas re¬ 
quire winter protection in any climate 
where there is frost. Mound the dirt 4 
to 6 inches around each bush and after 
the ground freezes cover the entire bed 
with dry' leaves or straw. Some hill up 
the earth 10 to 12 inches and after 
freezing, fill in the hollows between 
the plants with leaves held in place by 
tree branches or wire netting. Remove 
this soil and mulch in the spring after 
danger of severe frost is past. 
Control of Insects and Disease— 
Proper care is the first step in com¬ 
bating insects and diseases. 
Conrad F 1 . Meyer—The Hardiest Rose 
Sucking insects like Aphis can be 
killed by spraying with “Black Leaf 
40,” a teaspoonful to two gallons of 
water, adding one ounce of soap. Rose 
slugs and other leaf eating pests can 
ordinarily be controlled by dusting 
with hellebore diluted with double its 
weight of cheap flour. Arsenate of lead 
one ounce to one and one-half gallons 
of water is also effective. Rose bugs, 
curculio and caterpillars can be picked 
off by hand and dropped into water 
containing a little kerosene. 
Black Spot and Mildew—An ounce of 
prevention is worth a pound of cure. 
When the third or fourth set of leaves 
have grown, dust them thoroughly with 
a mixture of 9 parts of dusting sul¬ 
phur and one part of dry powdered lead 
arsenate, used preferably when the dew 
is on. Continue this application every 
week or two during the growing sea¬ 
son. If one part of powdered tobacco 
dust is added to this mixture it takes 
care of all insect pests except the rose 
bug. 
Pick off and burn any yellowing leaf 
with black spots on it. 
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“A few years ago I started planting 
some of your trees and shrubs and 
through your wonderful catalog of in¬ 
formation and a little study I have a 
most pretty yard and home of my own 
planting and arranging and which 
causes no little attention from friends 
and others who very often ask where 
I get my shrubs.”—F. C. Deputy, Mo. 
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