; WINTER PROTECTION 
It has been forced onto my attention that some of my customers are not 
covering the mound deep enough over the top of the roses—this is being 
done in the cold sections of the U. S. A. Now note positively—the rose is ten- 
der without soil protection deeply over the top of the plants. You may get by 
for a while because of my strong plants, but not always. After covering, put 
green boughs on top to keep mound solidly frozen. 
ANENT HYBRID POLYANTHAS 
Remember; no less than six of a kind sold, for if your garden does not 
have room for that many you should not plant them. Consider them more or 
less as you would a border of geraniums with the added factor of permanence 
and prestige. 
There has been a very decided lack in the sale of these wonderful things. 
I regretted it very much, at the same time not giving the matter much 
thought. After seeing a bed of annuals that were about through and looking 
like something the cats brought in, and realizing that they would have to be 
torn out and replaced with something else, I started to study the matter, and 
looked back through the orders, and I found this out: Wherever a person 
bought six or more of a kind they were enthusiastic and bought more. 
Others remarked about the beauty oftheir garden. Then I noticed that 
where one or two of a kind, sometimes one of everything I had, there were 
never repeat sales—in fact, sometimes they were sarcastic. 
The proof of this is that there is no more use for a person to buy one 
plant of a H. Poly—notice I do not use the ballyhoo word Floribunda, which 
the American Rose Society refused to recognize, as it had been used about 
one hundred years for a specie rose—than there would be to say, “Well, 
give me a glass of Lake Superior water; I want to see what the lake looks 
like.” 
There is no use to try to kid ourselves. Sales records prove that we are 
not able to judge the effects of mass by the individual. 
To get back to where I was, a lot of people bought one “to see what it 
was like,” and, believe it or not, some of them even came right out and com- 
pared it with large flowered roses, forgetting that they were not grown for 
individual blooms, but for mass and continuity—in other words, color—in 
place of the annuals that they had grown before. So for that reason, if you 
cannot use six of a kind, do not buy any, for that is the way I intend to sell 
them from now on, NOT LESS THAN SIX OF A KIND, for that will protect 
the buyer as well as my reputation. 
PETALAGE 
One of the things that is not generally understood is that there is no dif- 
ference in the lasting ability of singles or doubles so iong 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 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 fool proof plants and real long 
stems that you like and that will give enormous amounts of long-stemmed 
cut flowers. 
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