CHAMPION CITY GREENHOUSES, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. It 
SUMMER BEDDING ROSES FOR CUT FLOWE ^ 
Mr. Florist, You Have No Excuse To Be Without Roses During Any Day of the Summer, and Plenty of Them 
HE PLANTING of Roses in the garden for summer cut flowers has 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 them?" We reply to let your wheels revolve fast enough to realize that you can buy Roses as cheaply as you can buy 
Salvias and Geraniums, and should you fail to winter the Roses, no serious loss is* sustained. Another thing, the Tea and Hybrid 
Tea Roses will produce more blooms twice over than any Geranium. No florist has. an excuse for being out of Roses through¬ 
out the entire summer season, and your blooms will be finer than any ever cut under glass. 
HOW TO OBTAIN THESE RESULTS 
when their roots can strike 
root two-and-one-half- 
Select land, if possible, with a clay subsoil and a clayey loam top soil. Roses always do best whe 
down and take hold of clay. Give a good coat of manure and plow deep. Always plant G. & R. own 
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 t^ie hoe to loosen up the soil between 
the plants in the row. Now comes the important part. Mulch with straw manure fresh from the stable to a depth of one 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 pull what few weeds show (and but few do show through this mulch). This mulch will provide the necessary mois¬ 
ture 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 1 what Roses you will see! Nothing grows under glass to compare with them. Only cer¬ 
tain varieties of Roses are suitable — those that are good growers, producing fine buds and flowers on good stems. 
IMPORTANT ^ ie we name ' so ^ ar as we know, will do well in all parts of the country. The florist in Ohio or Wis- 
I iti ■ v n i h hi consin should have glorious Roses to cut all summer. You can experiment with a few hundred plants. 
There may be other varieties that in certain 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 vari¬ 
eties 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 the 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 
Brownsville, Tex., Nov. 20, 1914. 
I wish you could see some of the cut flowers I am getting 
from Paul Neyrons (tall as my head), K. A. Victoria, etc.—lit¬ 
tle 2*4-inch plants a year ago, now taller than my head, and 
some of them with bases of shoots three inches thick. They 
did wonders here the past year. I have worked off over halt 
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 my stock in the open field. These plants 
were set out today. Temperature this 0 a. m., 40°, at noon 70°. 
Respectfully yours, 
P. If. DREISER. 
WHITE 
Antoine Rivoire 
Kaiserin A. Victoria 
Lady Katherine Rose 
Marie Guillot 
Mrs. Foley Hobbs. 
Souv. de Pres. Carnot 
White Maman Cochet 
Yvonne Vacherot 
RED 
Ecarlate 
Etoile de France 
General McArthur 
Helen Gould 
Olivia 
Rhea Reid 
YELLOW 
Blumenschmidt 
Etoile de Lyon 
Herz. Marie Antoinette 
Lady Hillingdon 
Miss Alice de Rothschild 
Souv. de Pierre Notting 
Sunburst 
Aurora 
PINK 
Col. R. S. Williamson 
Eugene E. Marlett 
F. R. Patzer 
Grossherzogin Friedrich 
Helen Good 
Jonkheer J. L. Mock 
Madame Jules Grolez 
Maman Cochet (Pink Cochet) 
Mrs. Charles Russell 
Mrs. George Shawyer 
President Taft 
Radiance 
Wm. R. Smith 
Marechal Niel’s 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 won¬ 
derful 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 this 
March and April. This latter bed I have spared when pos¬ 
sible, but am writing to say that I have picked one thou¬ 
sand perfect buds every day for ten weeks. Have sold thir¬ 
teen 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 now of 
stable manure and charcoal. Our irrigation has 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 my success. 
Please send me a list of the most profllic Peonies. 
Very truly yours, 
MRS. HENRY MEINERT. 
NEW ROSE FRANCIS SCOTT KEY 
This new Rose swept the boards at the New York Show last 
spring. It is a glorious bedder, being very full and double and 
free bloomer. See page 4. 
New Rose, 
Key. 
