'^^^merican - Grown Rosqs —Bohbink & Atkins 
Until within the past few years, a large proportion of the Roses sold in America 
were grown abroad and grown for other climatic ranges. We have led in developing 
an American source of good Roses for America, and the plants we supply are not 
only adapted to the continent, but can obviously reach the aspiring Rose-grower 
in better condition than those which must be transported across either three 
thousand miles of land from the Pacific coast or three thousand miles of water 
from Europe. We use as the root-system which drives into constant and profuse 
bloom the Roses which do not do best on their own roots, a special form of Japanese 
Multiflora stock which we grow in our own nurseries, and upon which our skilled 
workers “bud” the select varieties that make up our collection. 
There should be a clear understanding that all the Roses we send out are vigor¬ 
ous, outdoor-grown plants that have never had a day in a greenhouse. They may 
be called one-, two-, three-, or four-year-old plants, according as one uses the whole 
of the life-cycle in the description. The Japanese Multiflora seed we save is sown 
in the fall of one year or early the following spring. By early summer, the little 
plants are lined out in rows in fertile soil. That fall they are plowed up so as to 
get all the root-system, and every single plant is individually handled by trained 
operatives who prepare it for the budding which occurs about the middle of the 
following summer, after these plants have entered upon another growing season. 
In another season the whole vigor of this wonderful root-system is thrown into 
the variety budded, and that fall—the fourth from the sowing of the seed—the 
finished plants are again carefully plowed out with all their roots and prepared 
for shipping then and the following spring to our friends who want the best Roses 
made in America. 
Further, our plants, through these peculiar methods developed here, are low- 
budded, which means that the buds are inserted so close to the roots that even¬ 
tually an independent root-system of the variety budded is developed above the 
supporting Multiflora system. This form of production is possible only on stocks 
prepared as we prepare them, and cannot be accomplished where the stocks are 
raised from cuttings rather than prepared from seedlings. 
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