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stronger plant than if it were growing on its 
own roots. In grafting the same process is 
used and the same results are achieved as 
in budding, the only difference being that in 
grafting a section of the parent plant is used 
instead of an eye as in budding. 
Q. What are Bench Roses? 
A. Bench Roses, which are regularly offered 
to the unsuspecting public each Spring, are 
roses that are removed from Greenhouse 
Benches, because after forcing month after 
month they become worn out or exhausted 
and will not and cannot produce either worth¬ 
while blooms nor can they be depended on to 
live through the first Winter, and they cannot 
be considered and should not be advertised 
as desirable plants for garden planting. 
Q. What are good Roses? 
A. Good roses are plants that have been 
grown by a conscientious grower who is hon¬ 
est in his efforts to produce a plant that is vig¬ 
orous, and with the desire to produce a fine 
plant to be sold and planted by a rose lover 
who really wants a good plant and is willing 
to pay a decent price for it commensurate with 
the cost of producing it. 
Q. Do all Rose Growers try to produce good 
Roses? 
A. No. To produce good roses extreme care 
must be exercised from the very start and all 
through the growing season. Strong scions 
must be selected for budding or grafting and 
these scions must come from vigorous, strong 
blooming plants. Just as careful selection must 
be made as is used by the horse breeder or 
cattle breeder in selecting the parents for an 
outstanding colt or calf. 
Q. Why don't all Rose Growers use great 
care in producing Roses? 
A. Simply because some men are naturally 
lazy and careless and think only of quantity 
instead of quality. Their idea is to get the 
money the easiest way, and realizing that 
many people are ready to buy anything that 
looks cheap regardless of quality they have a 
market for the trash they produce and, there¬ 
fore, they grow it cheap and sell it at a price 
less than the cost of a carefully and properly 
grown plant. This fact accounts for the over 
supply of cheap roses offered the public each 
year and also accounts for the failure of many 
rose buyers who, if they had secured good 
roses in the beginning, would be suc¬ 
cessful. 
Q. Where can I buy good roses? 
A. Any nurseryman who has through years 
built up a reputation for good nursery stock 
and who desires to maintain that reputation 
can supply dependable roses. It is, however, 
just as silly to go to a drug store to get good 
roses as it is to go to a nursery to get good 
medicine. 
Q. Are Cloverset Roses good Roses? 
A. Cloverset Roses are grown under contract 
for us by three of the largest and best rose 
growers in the United States. Growers who 
for many years have spent their efforts and 
their lives as well as their money trying to 
produce good roses at a reasonable price 
rather than cheap roses at a cheap price. 
Q. Are Cloverset Roses No. 1 quality Field 
Grown? 
A. Cloverset Roses are grown in large fields 
in rows just like potatoes or corn and are care¬ 
fully watched for diseases and insects all 
through the growing season, being cultivated, 
sprayed and irrigated in regular order, and 
like potatoes and corn, some grow very vig¬ 
orously while others are scrubby and grow 
very little. At digging time after the foliage 
has been dropped by freezing and the roses 
are fully matured they are dug and graded. 
The largest, most vigorous and heaviest plants 
are called No. 1, the smaller and less vigor¬ 
ous plants are No. IV 2 and No. 2, and as they 
are all of the same age and all grew under 
the same conditions the smaller plants (No. 
1 V 2 and 2) are what we call scrubs and 
always will be scrubs and any one unfortun¬ 
ate enough to get them will never have a 
good rose plant. 
All Cloverset Roses are No. 1 grade and 
never have we bought or received or offered 
to our customers any other grade than No. 1, 
the best of the field, and on No. 1 grade 
Roses have we built up our reputation for 
good roses. 
Q. Are Dormant or Bare Root Roses better 
to plant than Potted Roses? 
A. No. Dormant Roses and Potted Roses are 
just the same in quality. In the case of Dor¬ 
mant Roses you plant them and start them. 
In Potted Roses we plant them and start them 
in our Patented Cloverset Pots. We are, 
through OUR knowledge and ability to give 
them better care, able to give them a better 
start than you can, and, therefore, insure bet¬ 
ter and more vigorous blooms and after 
growth than dormant roses. In addition to 
this advantage enjoyed by buying Potted 
Roses, you buy them in bloom and by the eye, 
and you know exactly what you are getting. 
Buying your roses in bloom and growing in 
Cloverset Pots as compared to buying and 
planting Dormant Roses, is just as much more 
up to date as buying a ready made dress as 
compared to buying cloth, thread and buttons 
and making the dress. 
Cloverset Quality Roses will please you. 
The quality is in them and with a little care 
on your part as outlined in the different chap¬ 
ters in this book, will enable you to grow as 
fine roses in your own back yard as we grow 
here at Cloverset Farm. 
