The Rose Is the National Flower . Of Thee I Sing! 
Growing Good Roses 
The beds ought not to be more than 4 feet wide, and the soil should be rich. Avoid making the ground loose or spongy. The 
stiffer and harder the soil in the lower layers of the bed the better Roses grow. Old sods, greasy decayed cow-manure, bone-meal, 
and commercial dried sheep-manure are good fertilizers. Keep the surface of the Rose-beds well cultivated. 
Plant Hybrid Tea Roses 134 feet apart. More vigorous types need more space. Set the “bud” or “graft” at least 1 inch beneath 
the surface. Spread out the fine roots carefully and tamp the soil firmly about them. It is sometimes well to tread the soil 
hard about the roots. Loose planting is fatal. 
Roses must be pruned when planted, and every spring afterward. Remove weak and dead wood, and shorten the new growths 
to 6 inches or less, remembering that dwarf, slender-growing Roses must be cut back harder than strong ones. Climbing Roses 
ought not be cut in the spring except to take out dead wood, but in July, when they have finished flowering, remove the old canes 
and train up new vigorous shoots from the roots for next year’s bloom. 
The green plant-lice which attack the tips and buds of Roses in spring and fall may be destroyed by a nicotine spray such as 
“Black-Leaf 40.” Hand picking is best for rose-bugs. Black-spot and mildew may be prevented by bordeaux mixture or the sulphur- 
arsenate dust recommended by the American Rose Society. 
Protect for winter by drawing the earth 6 inches high about them and cover the tops with leaves or other litter. Remove the 
protection gradually when freezing weather is past. 
Popular Hybrid Tea or Everblooming Roses 
Extra-strong, field-grown, dormant plants, 75 cts. each; $8 per doz.; $60 per 100. April 
delivery. 
Strong 2-year plants from pots, ready for delivery in May and later, 90 cts. each; 
$9.50 per doz. 
Betty Uprichard. Free-blooming, erect 
plants with long, beautifully shaped buds 
of coppery pink opening to llowers of bril¬ 
liant salmon, shaded with vivid rose-pink. 
Dame Edith Helen. Massive, very double 
flowers of an extremely pure and lucid 
shade of rose-pink. An outstanding variety. 
General MacArthur. Velvety crimson- 
scarlet blooms. Fine for bedding. 
Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria. The popular, 
double, pure white bedding Rose. 
Killarney Queen. Remarkable for its very 
long and lovely deep pink buds, freely 
produced on a vigorous plant, and opening 
into broad blooms of informal beauty. 
Lady Alice Stanley. Very double flowers 
of light silvery pink, darker on the outside 
of the petals. 
Los Angeles. The flowers are pale satiny 
pink, richly shaded with deep rose and 
gold. 
Mme. Butterfly. Flowers are a brilliant 
pink, suffused apricot and gold, of good 
texture and fragrance, and are unusually 
enduring. 
Mme. Edouard Herriot. Also called “The 
Daily Mail Rose.” Its coral-red buds 
develop into flowers of the same hue, 
shaded yellow to scarlet—an extraordi¬ 
nary coloring. 
Mrs. Aaron Ward. A Rose of pleasing 
surprises because of its color variations, all 
based on its normal, deep Indian-yellow 
hue. 
Mrs. E. P. Thom. Dependable pure 
golden yellow Rose. 
President Herbert Hoover. Large (lowers 
of a very charming combination of rich 
pink, flame-scarlet, and yellow, with 
broad, pink petals; very fragrant. 
Radiance. Lovely, light silvery pink flow¬ 
ers, with beautiful suffusions of deeper 
color. 
Red Radiance. Even better than the parent 
Radiance in habit, and a lovely deep red 
color in its great, globular flowers. 
Rev. F. Page-Roberts. Flowers of golden 
yellow, stained copper and reddish buff. 
Souv. de Georges Pernet. Big, orange- 
rose-colored flowers with golden yellow 
tints and coppery tones on the buds. 
Exceedingly handsome. 
Talisman. Bright rose flamed with orange, 
varying to scarlet and yellow. An excellent 
continuous bloomer. Plant vigorous, 
foliage healthy. 
Wilhelm Kordes. Vivid salmon-pink, 
shaded with orange and yellow. 
For Novelty Hybrid Tea Roses, see next page 
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