

RICHARDS’ GARDENS 
Garden Roses 
Everyone loves roses. Their utter loveliness of 
form, texture, fragrance and color make them the 
most popular of all flowers for the garden or home. 
When added to these qualifications are ease of 
culture, and quick and ample response in blossoms, 
it is no wonder the rose has heen called “Queen of 
Flowers.” 
Let us repeat that ease of culture. We’re 
terribly annoyed when we read how important it is 
to “excavate’’ and prepare a rose bed according to 
a lot. of half-baked theories that have been handed 
down from one writer to another when it has been 
so often demonstrated that the culture of roses is 
no more difficult than that of any other flower. 
We have always contended that the basis of 
your success with garden roses depends on the 
health, vigor and productiveness of the plants you 
start with. You may say that this holds true with 
all nursery stock. Let us assure you that it is 
particularly true with rose plants because of many 
growth factors that only the experienced nursery- 
man understands. 
The plants we sell include only the cream of 
the rose crop, select No. 1 grade two-year-olds 
budded on Gloire des Rosomanes (Ragged Robin). 
They are grown in a high Sierra valley in altitude 
and climate similar to our own northern Colorado, 
the finest roses that money can buy. 

A modest garden of this size is within 
the reach of all. These pictures were 
taken the first blooming season after 
planting. 

A WORD ABOUT PRICES 
It has never been our custom to make apolo- 
gies for the prices asked for our plants. Consider 
ing the size, quality and health of the plants we 
sell, you will actually find them less expensive in 
the end when you begin to reap tne harvest of love- 
ly rose blooms. It has been our experience that 
of all plants produced in nurseries there are none 
that vary so greatly in size and quality as rose 
plants, and for that reason it is always hard for 
the inexperienced buyer to understand the reason 
for variation in rose prices. 
