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 
stiller and harder the soil in the lower layers of the bed, the better Roses grow. Old sods, decayed cow-manure, bone meal, and 
commercial drfed sheep manure are good fertilizers. Keep the surface of the Rose-beds well cultivated. 
Plant Hybrid Tea Roses \} 2 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. 
Regular spraying with Tri-Ogen, described on this page, will prevent disease, destroy aphis and slugs, and discourage rose-bugs and 
Japanese beetles. It is a real All-purpose Spray. 
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. 
New and Recent Introductions of 
Hybrid Tea Ro ses 
Extra-strong, field-grown, dormant plants. April delivery 
Extra-strong, 6-in. pot-plants, delivery in May 
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 each. 
Countess Vandal. Plant Patent No. 38. Long-pointed bud with 
shadings of coppery bronze, suffused gold. Plant has great vigor 
and continues in flower throughout the summer. $1 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, pro¬ 
ducing long, streamline buds of rich gold, without shading. The 
flowers are semi-double, freely produced. $1.25 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 each. 
Golden State. Plant Patent No. 303. This long-stemmed golden 
yellow Rose has won high praise under test the past year. It has 
been selected as the official Rose of the Golden Gate International 
Exposition. The llower has splendid form and a rich color which 
lasts unusually well and the plants are first class. $1.50 each. 
McGredy’s Sunset. Plant Patent No. 317. A variety which is aptly 
named. Outside of petals clear buttercup-yellow, tipped orange, 
while the inside is chrome-yellow, flushed with scarlet as it opens. 
Flowers are medium size, full and shapely, with a pleasing fragi ance, 
and very freely borne on strong, upright stems. Excellent in hot 
weather. $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 heavy bronzy foliage which laughs at 
insects and disease. $1.25 each. 
M iss America. Plant Patent No. 264. A new winter Rose which has 
almost everything a good Rose should have. The color is flesh with 
salmon and gold suffusion. Its strong delightfully fragrant flowers 
are produced throughout the season. $1 each. 
Mme. Joseph Perraud. A Rose of sublime beauty. Long, slender, 
pointed, nasturtium-orange buds which open to sweetly fragrant, 
shell-pink blooms. The petal edges are almost pure buff, lightened 
with pink at the margins. $1 each. 
Pink Dawn. A beautiful Hybrid Tea Rose with glorious deep rose 
buds opening into lovely pink blooms tinted with orange at the 
base of the petals. $1 each. 
Poinsettia. Plant Patent rights reserved. Tall, healthy, vigorous 
plants that really bloom. Semi-double bright scarlet flowers during 
the whole season. One of the best of the new Roses. $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. $1.50 each. 
Sequoia. A vigorous upright-growing Rose on the type of Heinrich 
Wendland. The bowers are produced singly on strong wiry stems 
The color is a luscious ripe pumpkin-flesh, sutlused apricot, and 
shading lighter at the petal edges. A very free-blooming Rose for 
every garden. $1.50 each. 
Sunny Days. The perfectly pointed buds of this charming Rose 
are of a mellow chrome-yellow. When fully open the nicely shaped 
flower is of the same shade as the bud but somewhat lighter at the 
edge of the outer petals. Of vigorous growth with abundant dark 
green foliage. $1.50 each. 
The Doctor. Exquisite silvery pink blooms with large petals and 
wonderful fragrance. Plants are small and not free, but one glorious 
flower is worth the price of a plant. $1 each. 
Polyantha Roses 
Dagmar Spath (White Lafayette). A pure white sport of Lafayette 
with large, semi-double flowers in clusters. Always in bloom. 
$1 each. 
Gloria Mundi. Small flowers of unfading orange-scarlet on dwarf 
plants. 75 cts. each. 
Gruss an Aachen. Large, double flowers of light pink shaded 
salmon. A dependable Rose. 75 cts. each. 
Mrs. R. M. Finch. Large bushes covered all season with masses of 
pink and white flowers. Extra. 75 cts. each. 
Orange Triumph. Great clusters of small double flowers of brick- 
red lightly tinged with orange. Dwarf but unusually free. 75 cts. 
each. 
Pink Charm. Large, double flowers of a lovely shade of deep pink. 
Blooms all the time and makes a showy bedding Rose. 75 cts. each. 
TRI-OGEN 
This special Rose spray has proved most effective against 
the two worst Rose diseases, mildew and black-spot. Con¬ 
trols all kinds of insect pests and is perfectly safe to use. 
A weekly application throughout the season gives perfect 
protection. Medium Kit $4.50. Large Kit $6.50. 
Estate Kit $19. 
Rose-lovers will find membership in the American Rose Society 
pleasant and helpful. Write the Secretary, Box 687, Harrisburg, Pa., 
for details. 
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