ABOUT FERTILIZER 
There has recently been circulated by an Oregon Professor that fertilizer should be 
put under rose plants at planting time—this man evidently does not have sufficient 
power of assimilation or he would realize that in all but sandy soil, when we in Oregon 
have continued rains, there is formed a water seal over the fertilizer excluding free cir- 
culation of air to the organic matter placed under the plant, this does not stop further 
decomposition of the organic matter but the compounds that are formed are plain poison 
to the roots of roses. The best way is to prove this to yourself by accentuating the 
process by burying some of this material under a readily accessible place and instead of 
waiting for heavy rain to slowly do the job of sealing the top, simply hasten the process 
by packing it by walking in when wet then in the early spring dig it up and you will 
find the soil has turned blue from the continued decomposition and stinks from marsh 
gas, and the material used may be so-called well rotted cow manure, too. 
Sure, the rose will live after this treatment as the rose by nature is indomitable but 
it would do much better under most conditions if it were not done this way. Though 
the man’s egotism who does it this way will not permit him to admit that possibly he 
could be wrong. But you are planting my plants and I insist that they at least get a 
break by using my methods. 
I repeat, my planting instructions must be followed without deviation or I will not 
be responsible as under some soil and weather conditions you may poison your plants. 
The reason I never say in any of my writings what fertilizer to use, is because I do not 
recommend fertilizing a rose till it starts to grow the first year and then almost any fer- 
tilizer will give results. Each grower has a pet brand yet the rose grows for all. 
$6.50 SPECIAL 
Again I will have a few of my special dozens with which I have made many friends 
as they are the equal of top grade rose plants sold by the rest of the growers. Ask your 
friends who have bought my plants. Even tho they really are my second grade of plants. 
There will be some plants in this where the names have become lost and does happen at 
times. I will not take orders for these Bundles for spring shipment regardless of the 
size of the rest of the order as they are already at rock bottom prices and I cannot afford 
any further cost of handling. They must be shipped in the fall. These must be taken 
as put up and no selection by you can be made. You will find a full color range of top 
varieties in these bundles. 
There will be constantly put before you a flood of new names with a lot of ballyhoo 
and I will not even try to have the most of them as they are simply slight variations 
without being any better varieties and in some cases the rose will be inferior to existing 
varieties. I knew this would happen quite a few years ago when I desperately sought 
to keep the American rose society in the hands of the amateurs and have a privately 
owned test Garden, but with the death of Marion Hatton and this surge of greed that 
grips the world it is now indirectly controlled by the few big rose interests with no check 
or rein on introduction of new varieties in their relation to existing varieties. 
See in other gardens how much better my plants grow and how outstanding are the 
varieties I pick to propagate. 
