Our Dual Root System 
Our Roses are budded upon two distinct roots, 
namely, Multiflora and Ragged Robin. We select 
the one upon which each variety shows an affinity 
to thrive the better. While Multiflora is the best 
understock for certain varieties, it has, however, a 
tendency to produce undecided colors and soft- 
wooded plants which have the die-back habit among 
the multi-colored and yellow roses of the Pernetiana 
type. This latter type we bud upon Ragged Robin 
thereby getting better growth, color, longevity and 
more and better blooms. The persistent good per¬ 
formance of roses of American origin budded upon 
Ragged Robin at the great European Rose Shows 
has a significance which many rosarians have failed 
to realize. We submit, therefore, that our method 
of propagation is a decided advance and its superiority 
must be conceded. It would be as logical to expect all 
animals to exist on the same kind of food as for all 
types of Roses to thrive upon the same root system. 
Since we have changed the understock for such 
Roses as Los Angeles, Mad. Herriott, Feu Joseph 
Looymans, Mrs. E. P. Thom, President Hoover, 
E. G. Hill, Olympiad, Rev. Roberts, Talisman, etc., 
they hold their foliage much longer in the autumn 
besides the added advantage of commencing to 
bloom much earlier in the season. The growth of 
Roses in a nursery is no indication of their subse¬ 
quent performance when taken up and again re¬ 
planted. By using a dual understock as a root sys¬ 
tem we select the one upon which each variety not 
only grows but transplants the better. 
Our Guarantee 
We guarantee every rose bought from us at the 
retail price to bloom the first season after being 
received, except some varieties of climbing roses 
which require a season of growth to become estab¬ 
lished before they are ready to blossom, failing 
which, we agree to replace at the first planting 
season following and we also guarantee every variety 
to be true to name. 
Prospective customers will kindly note that we do 
not add to the price of our roses to cover the cost 
of the guarantee. 
Our growth in business, we attribute to the fact 
that our roses being Northern Grown are harder 
wooded and winter much better than roses grown 
in a more Southerly section. 
The Size of Our Roses 
For some reason nature does not produce plants 
of the same size and vigor. There necessarily must 
be some small sized plants, even though they re¬ 
ceived identical cultivation and fertilization. These 
second sized plants we never sell through retail 
channels. Fully ninety per cent of our Hybrid Tea 
and Perpetual roses will average between twenty- 
four to thirty inches in height and many of the taller- 
growing sorts attain an average height of three feet 
as they grow in our nursery fields. These are short¬ 
ened back for convenient handling. Prospective cus¬ 
tomers may rest assured that our plants are larger 
than the average size sent out by nurseries. Wit hout 
exception all of our roses are two year stock budded 
on three year old roots. 
Our Stock is Up-to-Date 
We have endeavored to keep our list of varieties 
down to one hundred sorts, and if we were to add 
fifty or more additional varieties, they would be, in 
our opinion, inferior to the roses herein listed. We 
have spent much money and given our best efforts 
during the past fifteen years in testing hundreds of 
the newer roses, only to find that many of them 
looked well on paper but were no advance on varieties 
now in cultivation. Many of the latest novelties, 
while they made good growth as maiden plants when 
grown in the nursery, lacked constitution when 
planted out again. They turned out to be bad movers 
and never proved to be a success in the garden. 
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