LITTLE COMPTON 
Cultural Suggestions 
BED. Any soil suitable to grow corn or potatoes can 
produce good Roses. 
WHEN TO EXPECT PLANTS. We favor fall 
planting. Spring orders are shipped for planting before 
April first, fall orders as soon as plants become dormant 
by three frosts, usually about November first. 
CARE UPON ARRIVAL. Submerge in pail of 
thin mud to be planted within two days. If Fall arrival 
is too late for planting, break earth frosted crust, dig 
hole, remove packaging material, bury tied bundle of 
plants in clean dirt, run water and mud between 
branches and roots, so buried they are in the best pos- 
sible winter storage; in spring lift and plant as soon as 
ground is unfrozen, shade plant for ten days with bag, 
basket or dirt. 
PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS. Garden earth con- 
taining manure, fertilizer, leaves, old or new, or any 
form of humus, in winter contact with stems will kill 
the plants. The words, “Clean Dirt” herein mean any 
dirt free from such. 
SPRING PLANTING. Plant Sub-Zero Hybrid Teas 
with graft joint 3 inches below bed level and Climbers 4. 
Preferably in full sunshine. Sub-Zero Hybrid Teas 1/2 
to 2 feet apart according to size; Climbers and Creepers 
3 to 6 feet apart. Make hole shape of inverted pail: 
fill in center 3 inches high; spread roots; half fill hole 
with clean crumbly dirt; pack firmly; add one-half pail 
of water, damp earth and rain are no substitutes for this 
watering; hill up plant with clean loose dirt, to be re- 
moved in ten days. 
FALL PLANTING. Follow Spring planting sugges- 
tions; apply winter protection. 
WINTER PROTECTION. Apply one of the fol- 
lowing methods, just before the ground freezes: 
No. 1. Tie stems and canes together. Bank up 
with 3 sods, grass side inside. This is sufficient if top 
and edges of sods are sealed with clean dirt. 
No. 2, Another protective procedure is to hill up 
around stems with clean dirt, 6 to 8 inches; tie around 
plant and over top 5 layers of newspaper; cover with 
inverted basket. 
No. 3. Where 10 to 15 degrees below zero Fahr- 
enheit, or colder is expected; hill up 8 inches with 
clean dirt, bank up with sods, grass side outside, seal 
top and edges with clean dirt. 
No. 4. Protection for Climbers. Tie canes to- 
gether after defoliation, bend to lay on ground, cover 
with sods as for Hybrid Teas, or with clean dirt and 
sods in colder areas. 
No. 5. “THERMOS” SYSTEM. For protection 
of tree Sub-Zero Hybrid Tea standards and old un- 
bendable Climber plants where sub-zero is expected, 
tie snugly to firm support and wrap newspapers over 
two inches of straw from base to top, repeat this with 
straw and burlap wrapping twice more. This has 
protected where same straw and burlap in one wrap- 
ping has failed. 
No. 6. Tree Standards. Of all Sub-Zero Hybrid 
Teas can unprotected survive exposure to around 
15 degrees below zero; use “Thermos” system to 
protect against colder. 
BROWNELL ROSES 
RHODE ISLAND 
SAVE REPLACEMENT EXPENSE. Sub-Zero 
Hybrid Teas require no winter protection. They can 
survive below ground and live many decades. All Rose 
wood on Sub-Zero Hybrid Teas and Climbers may if 
unprotected be destroyed by temperatures around 15 
degrees below zero or colder. Do not dig up for dead 
if killed to bed level. Like a Peony from eyes below 
ground normal plants can grow from live roots, to 
bloom normally by early Rose time, larger each year, 
even after very low sub-zero. It is estimated that winter 
mortality of Sub-Zero Hybrid Teas is around 1 per 
cent where tender Hybrid Teas fail 30 per cent. In 
sub-zero areas, fall hilling up, or the “thermos” system 
insures larger plants in the spring, protects against heav- 
ing in damp or heavy loam with consequent breaking 
of roots and destroying plants. 
CULTURAL SUGGESTIONS. Sandy soil requires 
more watering. Too much clay gives smaller flowers 
with less color. Two to three inches of cow manure 
worked into bed in early spring, or dry horse or cow 
manure, or proper amount of Vigoro or fertilizer for 
potatoes, is suitable to add vigor and bloom quantity. 
Water infrequently and abundantly as needed, espe- 
cially in the fall months, for winter resistance. Cultivate 
with hoe at least monthly. Keep all weeds, grass and 
other growing things at least two feet away, large shrub- 
bery and trees more distant. 
REMARKABLE MIDSUMMER DISPLAY is easily 
obtained by stretching sheeting four feet above Rose 
bed during hot sunny hours, with rings sewed in cor- 
ners, over nails in tops of removable corner posts, set 
in pipe holes. Remove when garden is to be enjoyed. 
Dust or spray thoroughly weekly, water abundantly 
when needed. 
DUSTING or SPRAYING. Pink Princess, the first 
and now several other of the Sub-Zero Hybrid Teas 
are, like most of the Climbers, free from premature 
defoliation on account of blackspot and require no 
dusting or spraying; others are more free than the 
average. Weekly dusting or spraying thoroughly on 
both sides of leaves and stems, requires but one-half 
minute per plant, insures performance and more mid- 
summer and fall bloom. Consult your seed store for 
dependable duster or sprayer.” Use “Mike” suiphur 
and/or Fermate to control fungus; Nicotine for sucking 
insects; arsenate of lead for all chewing things and 
D.D.T. very lightly to kill Jap Beetle, Rose Bugs and 
most other insects. 
PRUNING. Consists in removing all small and un- 
wanted wood. Cut dead wood back to a second good 
eye. Hard spring pruning produces less and larger 
flowers. As blooms fade cut back to third eye. Tie 
Climber canes as they grow horizontal to fan-shaped, 
no part of cane downward. If Creepers are desired 
closer to ground, weight down in winter with sticks. 
SPECIAL EXHIBITION DISPLAY, EARTH 
MIXTURE. Place six inches of sods two feet below 
plant, fill up with mixture of one-third one-year-old 
cow manure, one-third oak leaf mold, and one-third 
good loam; a little assorted seaweed if available. 
EVERBLOOMING CLIMBERS. The name univers- 
ally adopted for this class, is not appropriate, as their 
rebloom is very much more limited than that of the 
Sub-Zero Hybrid Teas, and is dependent upon en- 
vironment; and yet a few blooms in August means more 
to many than a hundred in June. 
WE are glad to have your inquiry or report. 
