The Rose is the National Flower. Of Thee I Sing! 
Growing Good Roses 
The beds ought not to be more than 4 feet wide, and the soil should be rich. Avoid making the ground loose or spongy. The 
stiffer and harder the soil in the lower layers of the bed, the better Roses grow. Old sods, greasy, decayed cow-manure, bone meal, 
and commercial dried sheep manure are good fertilizers. Keep the surface of the Rose-beds well cultivated. 
Plant Hybrid Tea Roses \]/% feet apart. More vigorous types need more space. Set the “bud” or “graft” at least 1 inch beneath 
the surface. Spread out the fine roots carefully and tamp the soil firmly about them. It is well to tread the soil hard about the roots. 
Loose planting is fatal. 
Dormant Roses should be pruned in the spring. Remove weak and dead wood, and shorten the good canes to 6 inches. Ramblers of 
the Dorothy Perkins type should have the old canes cut out at the base as soon as they are through blooming. Other Climbers require 
little pruning; simply remove dead wood and an occasional old cane as new ones appear. 
The green plant-lice which attack the tips and buds of Roses in spring and fall may be destroyed by a nicotine spray such 
as Black-Leaf 40. Hand picking is best for rose-bugs. Black-spot and mildew may be prevented by bordeaux mixture or the 
sulphur-arsenate dust recommended by the American Rose Society. 
Protect for winter by drawing the earth 6 inches high about them and cover the tops with leaves or other litter. Remove the pro¬ 
tection gradually when freezing weather is past. 
Recent Introductions of Hybrid Tea Roses 
Extra-strong, field-grown, dormant plants. April delivery 
Extra-strong, 6-in. pot-plants, delivery in May 
Alice Harding. Plant Patent No. 202. A real exhibition yellow Rose 
with wonderful garden qualities. The bud is large, golden yellow, 
flaked with carmine, and the long-lasting open bloom is pure gold 
with sweet honey fragrance. $2.50 each. 
Better Times. Plant Patent No. 23. A beautiful new Rose with 
long crimson buds opening into large, double, brilliant cerise-red 
flowers of delicate fragrance. $1.50 each. 
Pink Charm (Bright Pink Aachen). A good companion to the well- 
known Gruss an Aachen Rose, and of the same habit of growth. 
The full double flowers are deep pink in color. An ideal plant for 
mass effect in the garden. $1.25 each. 
Poinsettia. Vigorous, fairly tall-growing plant and semi-double, 
bright scarlet flowers produced profusely during the whole season. 
$1.50 each. 
Countess Vandal. Plant Patent No. 38. Long-pointed bud with 
distinctive shadings of coppery bronze, suffused gold. Plant has 
great vigor and continues in flower throughout 
the summer. $1.25 each. 
Crimson Glory. Plant Patent No. 105. A truly 
glorious Rose with urn-shaped buds of intense 
deep and vivid crimson. Form sturdy symmetrical 
plants well covered with showy blooms. $1.25 
each. 
Eclipse. Plant Patent No. 172. A plant of good 
strong habit, producing long, streamline buds of 
rich gold, without shading. The flowers are semi¬ 
double, freely produced. Several international 
prizes in Rome and Paris have been awarded to 
this Rose. $1.50 each. 
Glowing Sunset. Plant Patent No. 104. A glorious 
new Rose with long-pointed buds opening to full 
double flowers. Petals lengthened and twisted 
similar to a choice Cactus dahlia. Color is a 
lovely combination of orange, yellow, and rose- 
pink, blending into a vivid light apricot-orange. 
$1.50 each. 
Golden Dawn. A splendid garden Rose. Lemon-yellow buds, heavily 
splashed with crimson; sweet-scented sunflower-yellow blooms. 
$1 each. 
Heinrich Wendland. The flowers are large, fairly full, deliciously 
perfumed, and in color a combination of golden yellow and nas¬ 
turtium-red on opposite surfaces of the petals. $1 each. 
Hinrich Gaede. The most colorful of all Roses. Has long-pointed 
buds of a brilliant nasturtium-red color; the open blooms are high- 
centered, combining rich shades of luminous vermilion with 
golden yellow, such as is found in our modern zinnias. Richly 
fragrant. $1.50 each. 
McGredy’s Triumph. Plant Patent No. 190. This delicately 
scented Rose has very large, full-petaled, perfectly formed flowers 
of glistening cerise overcast with orange. We recommend this Rose 
not only for the beauty of the flowers, but for its unusual plant 
which is big and bushy with strong bloom stems and heavy bronzy 
foliage which laughs at insects and disease. $2 each. 
Mme. Joseph Perraud. A Rose of sublime beauty. Long, slender, 
pointed, nasturtium-orange buds which open to sweetly fragrant 
shell-pink. The petal edges are almost pure buff, lightened with 
pink at the margins. $1.50 each. 
Orange Triumph. This Baby Wichuraiana is the forerunner of a 
new race. The scai let-orange flowers are produced in enormous 
clusters, entirely covering the shiny green foliage during the whole 
season. Individual flowers are well formed, of good size, and full 
double. $1.25 each. 
R. M. S. Queen Mary. Plant Patent No. 249. This new Rose is a 
wonderful combination of vivid shades, being a rich, glowing 
blending of salmon and pink with 
an orange base. The buds are long 
and pointed, and the flowers are of 
large size and wonderful form. Freely 
produced and delicately perfumed. $2 
each. 
White Aachen. Plant Patent rights re¬ 
served. A sport of Gruss an Aachen with 
flowers buff-yellow in the bud form, 
gradually becoming pure white when 
fully open. This is one of the most im¬ 
portant of the new Roses because of the 
quantity of fluffy Powers covering the 
plants at all times. $1.25 each. 
Hinrich Gaede 
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