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1938 CATALOGUE AND ROSE GUIDE 
Exhibition Pc 
OSes 
Hybrid Tea or Monthly Roses usually pro¬ 
duce two or more lateral buds on the stem 
below the main or terminal bud. For those 
who desire only one bud on the stem, it will 
be necessary to pinch off the lateral buds 
when they first show. This will cause much 
larger terminal buds. This procedure is uni¬ 
versally used in growing greenhouse Roses. 
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your 
ooms 
Hybrid Tea Roses should, if possible, be cut 
with long stems. Long stems can be produced 
only by securing vigorous growth and by 
planting the rose plants close enough together 
to produce long stems. Thick timber always 
means tall timber and where weeds grow 
close together they always grow tall. This 
same rule applies to Roses and every other 
plant and where roses are planted not over 
16 inches apart and vigorous growth is se¬ 
cured by proper fertilization and culture, long 
stems will always result. 
In cutting your blooms we have always 
recommended leaving two leaves on the stub, 
but our experiments last summer have con¬ 
vinced us that better growth and a more 
shapely plant can be secured by cutting 
blooms at a point that will leave four leaves 
on the remaining stub and this shall be our 
rule in the future. This treatment not only 
produces a better looking plant but induces 
more bottom growth and larger blooms. 
lAJinter protection oi hjour Poses 
Hybrid Teas, or everblooming monthly 
Roses, bloom on current year's wood and 
after heavy, freezing weather in the Fall 
should be cut back to twelve inches high, hill¬ 
ing up the soil around the plants and an in¬ 
sulating cover of prairie hay packed over and 
around the bushes. While it is not absolutely 
necessary, some material to shed the water 
and the snow is beneficial and will insure the 
Roses coming through the winter without loss. 
This covering should be left on the Roses 
until danger of heavy frost is over in the 
spring, generally about the first of April, when 
it should be removed and the Roses gone over 
carefully and all the dead wood and weak 
branches cut away, after which a substantial 
feeding of Cloverset Rose Grower Fertilizer or 
Cloverset Blood and Bone Fertilizer (21/2 
pounds per dozen plants) should be worked 
well into the soil. 
S. 
nwirviaru 
These instructions, we believe, if followed 
carefully, will enable you to produce just as 
fine Roses in your yard as we produce here 
in our Rose Gardens at Cloverset Farm. Keep 
this book as your "Hand Book of Roses" and 
refer to it often. It will help you with your 
Roses. 
