Our climbers are tied up with string and laid down on their 
sides in the frames and covered with prairie hay. We throw 
enough soil on the pots, which insulates them against sudden 
freezes and thaws, but we do not put any soil on the tops and we 
always have big, long six or eight foot canes for our next sea- 
son’s sales. 
CLIMBING ROSES IN POTS IN BLOOM WITH 
6 TO 8-FOOT CANES 
Each year we pot up a large number of 2-year Climbing Roses 
which are cut back to 6 inches high and grown in our pots on 
through the Summer to provide our 3-year climbers for the fol- 
lowing Spring. These Climbers grow canes 6 to 8 feet long and by 
laying them down in our frames and covering heavily with hay 
to prevent freezing back we offer them in the Spring in full 
bloom and they readily sell at $1.50 each. We also have 30 va- 
rieties of 2-year Climbers at $1.00 each. All our climbing roses 
are sold growing in our Cloverset Pots. 
ROSES FOR WHOLESALE SALES 
We have always had many calls each Spring from our neighbor 
nurserymen, particularly those who do not grow any nursery 
stock, for roses to be resold to their customers. There is usually 
considerable demand for cheaper roses along about Decoration 
Day, and to take care of this problem, we pot up a few No. 1% 
roses in our No. 1 Perennial Pot. These No. 1% roses are not 
offered to our regular rose customers, but they seem to be very 
welcome to those dealers who either cannot or think they cannot 
sell a No. 1 rose. No. 1% roses, being very cheap, and the No. 1 
pot, which is also cheap and requires very little soil, perhaps 
solve this question of providing cheaper roses than the No. 1 
plants we offer our retail customers. 
OUR ROSE SHOWS 
By May 20th our roses are in full bloom and we put on our first 
Free Rose Show, using large display ads in the Sunday papers. 
By this time the cheap roses of the department and drug stores 
are off the market, and from the way our customers talk, two- 
thirds of them are dried up and dead so we are in a fine position 
to do some real rose business. By liberal advertising, calling 
attention to our BIG FREE ROSE SHOW we entertain thousands 
of visitors from this and other neighboring cities. 
OUR FALL ROSE SHOW 
Another Fall Rose Show in October brings another big rush in 
our sales and between these Rose Shows we try to interest our 
friends through our advertising in other Shrubs, Vines or Peren- 
nials that come in bloom during these periods. While our Sum- 
mer sales do not compare with the Spring and Fall business, we 
have many visitors to our gardens and generally we pick up 
enough business during this dull season to more than take care 
of our overhead. 
OUR ROSE GARDENS 
We maintain two very beautiful Rose Gardens here at our 
nursery. They contain about two acres and are formally laid out 
with circular paths, fancy beds, dotted with climbing roses on 
trellises, specimen evergreens, shrubs and garden pottery. We 
also have large Rock Gardens and Perennial Gardens. These we 
maintain as our show windows and in these gardens we hold our 
Free Shows. In May we hold our first Rose Show, showing the 
Hybrid Teas as well as early blooming shrubs and perennials. 
We had on display last Spring over 25,000 Hybrid Tea and 
Climbing Roses in 180 different varieties, every one growing and 
blooming beautifully in a Cloverset Pot, and the volume of busi- 
ness we handle during these shows is not surprising at all con- 
sidering the beautiful display we make. Our gardens are main- 
tained all Summer and Fall and our shows are kept up as long as 
the blooms are good, after which the roses are cut back and pre- 
pared for the next bloom crop and the next Rose Show. 
GROWING PERENNIALS IN CLOVERSET POTS 
Perennials to be a money making item to the florist and nur- 
seryman must be handled quickly, and grewing them in rows 
where the customer wastes much time in selecting the plants 
wanted, after which they must be dug, put in flats and taken to 
the work room to be tied up in paper, consumes so much time 
that there can not be any profit left for the grower. Having these 
plants growing in pots (potting them in the early Spring before 
the Spring rush begins) in cold frames where they can be lifted 
out and handled quickly during the busy season, will insure not 

Another beautiful setting in our garden. Ladies’ rest room 
in background 

The public will come if you have something worth seeing 

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