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1937 CATALOG AND ROSE GUIDE 
them to you as a finished plant ready to 
give you entire satisfaction in your garden, 
and as you are invited to select each in¬ 
dividual plant out of our cold frames, we 
enable you to select only the most vigor¬ 
ous and healthy plants among hundreds 
of the same sort. 
Our Cloverset Planted Roses do not re¬ 
quire immediate replanting. They may be 
kept growing in our containers until such 
time as is convenient for final replanting. 
They will grow and bloom just as well in 
the containers as they do in the ground. 
Replanting our Cloverset Planted Roses 
is a very simple task indeed. After the 
permanent bed is located, and soil proper¬ 
ly prepared as described in the following 
directions in this catalog, the hole, about 
12 inches in diameter and of proper depth 
is dug, the container is removed from the 
Rose plant and the plant is then set in the 
bed, without injury to the root system and 
consequently with no disturbance to the 
foliage or buds. 
Cloverset Planted Roses can be replanted 
in your Rose garden any time during the 
growing season, spring, summer or fall, 
without even showing the slightest wilt to 
either foliage, buds or blooms. 
We will have here in our Rose gardens 
at Cloverset Farm in April, 1937, about 
30,000 Roses in 140 different varieties, all 
growing and blooming in our containers. 
You are invited to visit our gardens any 
time and select your plants for your own 
garden picking out our best and largest 
roses. 
You, your family and your friends are 
invited to visit our gardens any time dur¬ 
ing the summer and see the thousands of 
lovely Roses in full bloom at all times. 
NOTE 
During March and up to April 15th and 
after November 1st we can supply Dormant 
Roses in all the sorts listed in this catalog. 
As it is impossible to get root action to start 
and make plants grow after the days get 
warm we do not offer dormant stock during 
the interval between the dates mentioned 
above. During the dormant season we pay 
postal charges on all Roses sold. After 
April 15th, when planted Roses only are 
supplied, the transportation charges must 
be paid by purchaser. We furnish crates 
free for planted Roses for shipping. 
Cur Cloverset System insures to you 
no disappointment due to plants dying 
after being planted in your garden. No 
disappointment in the color as you buy 
the plants in full bloom. 
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 condi¬ 
tions 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 purchaser, and 
the instructions given in this catalog are 
written to help you get started to be suc¬ 
cessful 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 
olease 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 3V?. 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 sKould never be over 41/^ 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, 21/2 
pounds of our Cloverset Rose Grower Fer- 
'ilizor and 1 bushel of our shredded Cow 
Manure should be spread out on each 21 
square feet of bed and thoroughly dug and 
mixed into a depth of 18 inches, digging 
over the bed twice to thoroughly mix the 
fertilizers with the soil. 
