CLOVERSET DEPENDABLE ROSES 
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CULTURAL DIRECTIONS FOR GROWING CLOVERSET 
HYBRID TEA ROSES 
(COMMONLY CALLED MONTHLY ROSES) 
In planning a Rose Garden or Rose Bed, it is essential that three important 
conditions be taken into consideration. 
First: Location of bed and preparation of soil. 
Second: Absolutely first class Roses to start with. 
Third: Planting and care after planting. 
The first and third of these conditions must be studied out by the pur¬ 
chaser, and the instructions given in this catalog are written to help you get 
started to be successful in growing these most popular and beautiful flowers. 
The second condition we believe we have worked out for you by offering 
you our Cloverset Roses, every one of which is a big, healthy, vigorous 
field grown plant grown by Rose specialists whose object is to produce a 
Rose that will please you with its many beautiful blooms. Our Roses are 
all budded on Japanese Multiflora or on Ragged Robin, as these two root 
stocks have been most satisfactory in our changeable Kansas City climate. 
LOCATION OF ROSE BED AND PREPARATION OF SOIL 
Always make your Rose bed to fit your Roses instead of spreading the Roses 
out to fit the bed. By this we mean that after deciding on how many Roses 
you wish to plant, make your bed just large enough so that the Roses will 
stand 16 inches apart each way. For one dozen Roses the bed should be 
3 Vi feet wide and 6 feet long, which will allow for three rows with four plants 
in a row. Larger numbers of plants will take larger beds in proportion. Rose 
beds should never be over 4 Vi feet wide as wider beds are hard to cultivate 
and are inconvenient when cutting blooms. 
The bed should always be located in a well drained place, away from the 
roots and shade of trees and large shrubs, and should be placed where they 
may be in full sun at least half the day, although full sun during the entire 
day is preferable. 
After the bed has been located, 5 pounds of our Cloverset Rose Grower 
Fertilizer and 2 bushels of our well rotted, shredded Cow Manure should be 
spread out on each 21 square feet of bed and thoroughly dug and mixed 
in to a depth of 18 inches, digging over the bed twice to thoroughly mix the 
fertilizers with the soil. 
