WATERING YOUR ROSES 
All modern Hybrid Tea roses are everblooming, that is, capable of producing bloom 
from early spring to frost under good cultural conditions. An abundance of WATER is 
by far the most important factor assuring constant bloom. Flooding the beds is one of 
the finest methods of watering, next only to tile watering from underneath, and is 
simplicity itself if you have had the forethought to have the level of the rose beds a 
couple of inches below surroundings. If it is absolutely necessary to water by sprinkling, 
work out a watering schedule that will not allow your foliage to remain wet for more 
than five hours, taking night dew into consideration. 
PRICES IN THIS CATALOGUE are subject to change without notice, and all orders 
are accepted subject to prior sale. I DO NOT KNOW exactly how many plants of 
each variety I have until after roses are harvested. 
PETALAGE 
One of the things that is not generally understood is that there is no difference in the 
lasting ability of singles or doubles so long as the ancestry is similar. An illustration 
would be that a Doberman Pinscher would live just as long if he had no spots or five 
or twelve. You see, petalage is increased by the stamens turning into petaloids and then 
into petals, and that does not have the slightest bearing on the length of time these petals 
last. The advantage, if any, lies in the fact that in wet or cold weather the less petals 
the better the rose will open. This all leads up to that with less petals a plant can make 
more blooms. Other conditions being the same, there are some varieties with not more 
than medium petalage that have foolproof plants and the real long stems that you like 
and that will give enormous amounts of long-stemmed cut flowers. 
TO THE CUSTOMERS OF THE PUGET SOUND AREA 
As so much of your so-called soil is nothing more than water washed sand and gravel 
(Glacial Moraine), naturally I would expect that when planting in such material you 
would try to put some soil in the holes when planting roses, but be very careful that you 
do not get barnyard soil infected with nematode as that would practically insure that 
your roses would not grow. Also when you have such perfect drainage as the most of 
your area has, there is no danger from a small amount of fertilizer under the plants and 
not against the roots. 
