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1937 CATALOG AND ROSE GUIDE 
View in Upper Garden at Cloverset 
DIRECTIONS FOR REPLANTING PLANTED OR POTTED 
ROSES 
Replanting the planted Roses in our 
Cloverset containers is very simple indeed. 
The containers are removed from the plants 
and the ball of soil set in the bed so the 
soil level in the containers is about one inch 
below the ultimate level of the soil in the 
bed. Always pack the soil tight around 
the roots of any kind of plants. This is done 
to force the air spaces out of the soil around 
the roots. After this a generous watering 
to thoroughly soak the soil down to the bot¬ 
tom roots is all that is necessary. Full in¬ 
structions for watering will be found in the 
following pages. 
ADVANCE PREPARATION 
We strongly advise advance preparation 
of the soil in your Rose bed. Preparing the 
soil for the Roses in advance of planting 
time is one of the best means of having not 
only ideal growing conditions but adds 
greatly to the appearance of the bed in 
the future. 
If the bed can be prepared, as given in 
the directions in this book, two or three 
weeks in advance of planting time and 
throughly soaked, to cause the soil and 
fertilizer to settle and break down into one 
composite mass and then is dug up again 
just before planting, the repeated handling 
of the soil will cause additional aeration 
and will also distribute the fertilizer more 
uniformly throughout the entire body of 
soil to the great advantage of the plant to 
be grown in it. 
Never plant anything in wet soil. Always 
wait until the soil is dry enough to crumble 
when worked in the hand. Wet soil will 
bake during the first hot day and is abso¬ 
lutely unsuitable for planting. Always 
wait until the soil is dry. Should your soil 
not be right for planting when you get 
vour Roses, set them aside for a few days. 
Dormant Roses may be heeled in tem¬ 
porarily for a few days without injury. 
