If you have received bushes having more than four or five canes, thin out the surplus 
canes, allowing no more than above number on a newly planted bush. Remove with a 
clean cut at base of the plant, and protect all wounds with tree paint or emulsified 
asphalt. 
HILLING: All canes are to be completely covered with soil after the bush is planted, 
either in winter or spring. This is to prevent the canes drying out from dry cold, heat 
or drying winds before the roots have a chance to take hold. SPRING PLANTING will 
possibly be a total failure unless the bushes are thus hilled, as spring conditions are 
ideal for drying out the canes. 
Even small city lots provide enough garden space in the vast majority of cases to 
permit of soil being taken from a bed of annuals, etc., for temporary use in the rose 
garden. Always discard the top layer of trash by skimming it off with a shovel, and 
HILL YOUR BUSHES WITH THIS CLEAN SOIL. Do not hill with soil contaminated 
by old rose material. 
Uncover your bushes gradually in spring, exposing only a portion of the canes at 
one time, so the new growth can harden gradually. 
AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY 
Every rose grower, no matter how small his rose garden, will be greatly profited by 
a membership in the American Rose Society. Send in your $3.50 check today to Box 687, 
Harrisburg, Penna. For the yearly dues of $3.50 you will receive: 
1. The Rose Magazine, issued six times a year, containing articles written by mem- 
bers on their rose experience, which means articles written by YOU on your rose garden. 
2. THE AMERICAN ROSE ANNUAL, issued every year, containing an average of 
250 pages of the newest and livest discussions written on every phase of rose growing 
throughout the United States and foreign countries. These articles are written both by 
the best known rose experts in the country, and by the rose amateur, even the rose novice, 
who has something of interest to contribute. The Annual is always handsomely illustrated 
with color plates of new roses and halftones of places and figures of interest in the rose 
world. This publication sells for $3.50 to non-members; you receive it with your $3.50 
membership fee. 
SPECIES ROSES 
Species roses are, accurately, original wild roses. The great majority of roses listed 
below are wild roses from widely different parts of the world. Some, however, are 
obviously hybridized roses which have been classed as species because they come mostly 
true from seed. Examples of these are R. Damascena Trigintipetala, and Harison’s 
Yellow. However, all double roses are hybridized roses even though their origin is lost 
in antiquity. 
Species roses are for the most part very hardy, and their bloom crops are followed 
by crops of fruit, mostly brightly colored; the most common colors are red, orange and 
yellow, although some produce fruits of black and brown. The fruits or hips are usually 
produced in great profusion and remain on the bushes for months, adding a bright note 
to the winter garden. 
Most species roses become too large to be used in the small garden, but are used in 
woodland corners of the large garden, while those of more discreet growth make beautiful 
pillars, fountains and specimen plants in smaller gardens. 
AUSTRIAN COPPER—No hybrid rose to date produced has quite the brilliant startling 
glowing color possessed by this species. It is a remarkable coppery scarlet, with the 
petals backed with gold, making each large single blossom shine almost like a light. 
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