THE HOOD & REEVE COMPANY WHOLESALE TRADE LIST 
Summer Bedding Roses for Cut Flowers 
Mr. Florist, You Have No Excuse to Be Without Roses During Any Day of the Summer, and Plenty* 
of Them 
Tin: planting of Hoses in the garden for summer cut flowers lias become in recent years a large business. We sell as many 
as twenty thousand plants to one concern for this purpose. The best proof that it is profitable is the fact that the firms who 
first made the trial are increasing their plantings, while many others are going into it. You say, “How shall we winter 
tliemV We reply to let your wheels revolve fast enough to lealize that you can buy Roses as cheaply as you can buy Salvias 
or (uraniums, and should you fail to winter the Roses, no serious loss is sustained. Another thing — the Tea and Hybrid Tea 
Rose< will produce more blooms twice over than any Geranium. No florist has an excuse for being out of Roses throughout the 
•entire summer season, and your blooms will be finer than any ever cut under glass. 
How to Obtain These Results 
Select land, if possible, with a clay subsoil and a clayey loam top soil. Roses always do best when their roots can strike 
down and take hold of clay. Give a good coat of manure and plow deep. Always plant G. & R. own root two and one-half 
inch pot plants. Time of planting should be governed by the locality (in our vicinity May 1st to 10th). Should the spring be 
early the planting may be done April 15th. Early planting, while the weather is cool, assures an active root action, and the 
plants are thus ready to work when the hot weather comes on. Cultivation should be intensive; that is, run the cultivator 
through them at least three or four times in two weeks, right after planting, and then use the hoe to loosen up the soil be¬ 
tween the plants in the row. Now comes the important part. Mulch with straw manure fresh from the stable to a depth of 
'•ne and one-half to two inches, enough to thoroughly cover the ground, placing it right up around the plant. After this all you 
need to do is to puli what few weeds show (and but few do show through this mulch). This mulch will provide the neces¬ 
sary moisture and also do away with the cultivation. Never allow the flowers to open on the plants, but cut in the bud state 
the stems placed in water and taken inside, and my! what. Roses you will see! Nothing grows under glass to compare with 
them. Only certain varieties of Roses are suitable—those that are good growers, producing fine buds and flowers on good stems. 
Important 
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The list we name, so far as we know, will do well in all parts of the country. The florist in Ohio or Wisconsin should have 
glorious Roses to cut all summer. You can experiment with a few hundred plants. There may be other varieties that in cer¬ 
tain localities will fill the bill as a profitable summer cut flower. We will consider it a favor if our customers will write us 
saying what are the best for this purpose in their different localities. The following varieties of Roses we have found best for 
summer cut flowers in Ohio. Each and every one is a free bloomer, and is a gem of the first water. Remember this one 
point: The Hybrid Teas produce better flowers during the hottest weather, while the Teas produce the best bloom after the 
nights become cool. 
List of Roses Planted in the Garden Suitable for Summer Cut Flowers 
WHITE ROSES 
Grossherzogin Alexandra. 
Kaiserin A. Victoria. 
Marie Guillot. 
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. 
White Bougcre. 
White Maman Cochet. 
LIGHT PINK ROSES 
Antoine Rivoire (Mrs. Taft). 
Colonel R. S. Williamson. 
Helen Good. 
Lady Katherine Rose. 
Mrs-^oley Hobbs. 
Souvenir de Pres. Carnot. 
Wm. R. Smith. 
Yvonne Vacherot. 
DARK PINK ROSES 
Aurora. 
F. R. Patzer. 
Grossherzogin Friederich. 
Jonkeer J. L. Mock. 
Lady Alice Stanley. 
Maman Cochet. 
Madame Jules Grolez. 
Madame P. Euler (Prima 
Donna). 
Mrs. George Shawyer. 
My Maryland. 
President Taft. 
Radiance. 
RED 
Crimson Queen 
Etoile de France. 
Eugene E. Marlitt. 
General McArthur. 
Helen Gould. 
Hadley. 
Hoosier Beauty. 
Laurent Carle. 
Olivia. 
Rhea Reid. 
YELLOW 
Blumenschmidt. 
Etoile de Lyon. 
Herz. Marie Antoinette. 
Lady Hillingdon. 
Sunburst. 
FANCY 
Blanche Martignot. 
Jenny Gillemot. 
Lady Roberts. 
Mrs. A. R. Waddell. 
Ophelia. 
Souv. de Pierre Notting. 
Marechal Niels at New Orleans 
If' our friends at New Orleans will take our two and one- 
fourth inch pot plants of Marechal Niel in January or Feb¬ 
ruary, shift them into a four-inch pot, plunge outside in 
old manure, stake and water as needed, and shift into larger 
pots as required, they can have every three and one-half 
cents they buy of us up into a $1.00 plant by September and 
October. In this way you never have the fatality when 
planted out that occurs in the Layered Banksia that are 
budded, and you get a much superior growth. Try this plan. 
WHAT OUR PATRONS SAY 
If we can please these customers, why not you? 
Marietta, Ga., Sept, 7, 1914. 
The Good & Reese Co., Springfield Ohio. 
Dear Sirs: — Just thought you’d like to hear of our wonder¬ 
ful success with G. & R. Roses for this summer. I have one 
thousand Cochet Roses from four to six years old. and then 
I have about one thousand which you sold me tfiis March and 
April. The latter bed I have spared when possible, but am 
writing to say that I have picked one thousand perfect buds 
every day for ten weeks. Have sold thirteen thousand of these 
to an Atlanta firm during the month of August, and with the 
others, supplied my retail trade. Have fed them often with 
commercial fertilizer, bone meal and cotton seed meal. I am 
giving them a mulch jjow of stable manure and charcoal. Our 
irrigation lias been grand, and I know how much people enjoy 
hearing good of their products, so thought I would tell you, 
as I am very proud and grateful for mv success 
Please send me a list of the most prolific Peonies. 
Very truly yours, 
MRS. HENRY MEINERT. 
Brownsville, Tex., Nov. 20, 1914. 
I wish you could sec some of the cut flowers I am getting 
from Paul Ne.vrons (tall as my head). IC A. Victoria, etc.— 
little 2*4-inch plants a year ago, now taller than mv head, and 
some of them with bases of shoots three inches thick. Thev 
did wonders here the past year. I have worked off over half 
my purchases last year at a dollar apiece. You can judge 
how they have grown in one year for me. There are no Roses 
like yours. I know, because I have tried others. 
Yours truly, 
A. W. REED. 
San Gabriel, Calif., Dec. 9, 1913. 
Messrs. Good & Reese Co., Springfield, Ohio. 
Sirs:—Your Rose shipment of 1st inst., came yesterday and 
opened up in the usual fine condition that has characterized 
your stock during the twenty years I have done business with 
you. Growing all ray stock in the open field. These pla ts 
were set out today. Temperature this 0 a. m. 40 degrees, at 
noon 70 degrees. Respectfully yours, 
P. H. DREISER. 
