VESTAL’S "QUALITY" ROSES 
V ESTAL’S Arkansas-grown Rose plants are the finest that Nature, aided by scientific skill, can 
possibly produce. If you have never planted Vestal Roses, look through this booklet and give us 
a trial order. 
For the proverbial life-span of three score years and ten, Jos. W. Vestal & Son has been busy 
growing plants for American gardens—seventy years of creating and testing new things, and, by everlasting 
watchfulness and rigid selection, improving the old favorites. 
This has been a labor of love, for we love plants and have enjoyed every minute devoted to this work; 
also, like most honest businesses, the House of Vestal has prospered, has grown from an idea and the will 
to do, to the largest retail nursery in the State. Do you realize that we are the largest growers of Roses in 
Arkansas? Do you know that we have growing, right here in Little Rock, 75,000 of the finest field-grown 
Rose plants it is possible to produce? In addition to our field-grown, budded Roses, we grow almost half 
a million own-root Rose plants for florist and garden use throughout the United States. Do you know that 
some of the finest Roses grown today (including the famous David O. Dodd) are Vestal introductions? We 
shall be happy to have you visit our greenhouses and nurseries any time you are passing through Little Rock. 
Here are some instructions which may help you to grow extra-fine Roses: Any good garden soil 
will grow good Roses. In planting a dormant Rose, dig a hole wide enough so that the roots can be spread out 
without bending and deep enough so the crown will be just barely covered when the bed is finally leveled off. 
Set the plant and pack clean earth tightly around the roots, tamping solidly; when the hole is nearly 
full of earth, pour in a bucket of water. As soon as this drains away, finish filling up the hole and hill up 
to the top of the canes with clean earth, peat moss, or sand—anything to protect the canes from sun and 
wind until the plant can form new roots, which will not be for two to three weeks. If you live where the 
ground freezes and are planting in the fall, leave the hills for winter protection, removing as soon as frosts 
are over in the spring. Keep Roses well watered the first few weeks. Where winter protection is necessary, 
the most satisfactory method is a simple hilling up with clean earth. 
» » » THE VESTAL GUARANTEE « « « 
We guarantee to the full amount of the purchase price, the purity and quality of all Vestal Seeds, Bulbs, Roots, 
and Plants ordered from this book; and we also guarantee to the full amount of the purchase price, the safe delivery 
of everything you order. 
We do not guarantee continued growth. At our prices it is impossible for us to guarantee growth or to be 
responsible for stock after delivery to our customers in good condition. So many factors over which we have no 
control govern the life and growth of plants, after they leave our custody, that we do not feel that we should be 
held responsible for their growth. JOS. W. VESTAL & SON 
JOS. W. VESTAL & SON Box 871 Little Rock, Ark 
