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The Sizes We Offer 
A Success Secret 
WE SHIP ONLY EXTRA GRADE AND NO. 1 GRADE PLANTS 
We are going to take you behind the scenes and explain one of the secrets of the success to 
be achieved with Peterson Roses. This has to do with our method of grading. 
There are factors in the growth of plants that are beyond the control of the nurseryman. 
This is especially true with field-grown Roses where we find that, in spite of the best care, they 
do not grow at the same rate, so that at harvest-time there are really three or four different sizes. 
Our Extra Grade denotes those plants having the greatest number of strong, thick canes 
and branches and the heaviest root systems. Naturally, these Extra-Grade plants will produce 
more Roses the first year, and thereby give the effect of an established Rose-garden. The 
relation between size of plants and abundance of bloom is so evident that the majority of our 
regular customers specify Extra-Grade Plants, even though the price is necessarily a little 
higher. They find these super-size plants worth the difference. However, very satisfying results 
may be had with our No. 1 plants. 
The No. 1 Grade is the size generally sold by nurserymen as top grade and will give satis¬ 
factory results. The quality and age of both sizes are the same. We emphasize the fact that our 
small-sized plants are never sold through regular retail channels. This careful method of grading 
assures you of getting plants uniform in size, and removes the element of chance, so you do not 
have to depend on luck to get the very best Roses obtainable. Whether you buy a dozen oranges, 
or a box of apples, they are sold according to size and quality, and it should therefore be evident 
that applying this same principle to varying Rose plants is good, sound nursery practice. 
Why Our Plants Are Better and Live Longer 
For a generation we have “stuck to our knitting,” so to speak. We do not try to grow or 
handle a miscellaneous assortment of planting material. As specialists—“those who aim to 
know more and more about less and less”—we are able to give closer attention to details than 
could a general grower. Our Roses and Peonies must be right for our business to succeed as it has. 
Here in the comparatively small sector of Bergen County, within 15 minutes’ drive from the 
George Washington Bridge, are produced some of the finest vegetable crops and nursery plants 
in the United States. The soil is a fertile loam and the climate is admirably adapted for pro¬ 
ducing field-grown Roses. 
Our Rose plants are all grown in the open field. The seeds of Rosa multijlora japonxca are 
first sown in the open field to provide hardy rootstocks. The largest seedlings are planted in 
the nursery row. Upon this strong and vigorous understock we then bud, in midsummer, the 
many cultivated varieties. 
These newly budded plants remain in the field over the winter and are then dug and offered 
for sale during late autumn and early spring of the following years. It will thus be understood 
they have completed three years of nursery life. These large, strong, northern field-grown plants, 
three years from seed, are incomparably superior to the discarded “bench” Roses which have 
been forced for months in greenhouses and which scarcely last one growing season. 
Direct from Nurseryman — Distance No Barrier 
In spite of the many ingenious methods which have been devised, we have yet to see Roses, 
sold like packaged goods from store shelves, which could compare with the vigorous Roses we 
put out. Distance is no barrier to the delivery of fresh-packed Roses provided you order them 
sent direct from the grower. 
