Before You Wecide 
Un Your Hoses... 
BUSH ROSES 
Roses of 
: For new Hybrid Tea Bush Roses that 
Exceptional Merit are really decided improvements over the 
old, we highly recommend these: 
Capistrano, Mission Bells, New York- 
CLIMBING HN BRIDSLEAS er, Nocturne, Sutters Gold, Peace. 
Not enough people realize that there FLORIBUNDAS 
is such a thing as an Everblooming 
Climbing Hybrid Tea Rose. Except for Outstanding among the Floribundas 
are Goldilocks, Red Pinocchio, and Fash- 
ion. Plant the Floribundas around the 
edge of your rose bed—in beds of their 
their climbing habit, these roses are ex- 
actly like the bush hybrid teas. Since 
they are climbers don’t expect too much i . 
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OWnh or 1n perennial border. 
flowering during their first growing sea- 
son. Our climate seems to suit them very GOOD NEW WHITE CLIMBER 
nicely, but to give them a chance to be- 
We have had numerous requests for a 
large flowered white Climber that will 
de well in this area. We offer one that 
is very well qualified to fill this order— 
so you have a wide selection to choose City of York. Opens to a delightful 
from. creamy white, and is one of the hardiest. 
come well established, protect them from 
Winter injury the first Winter. All of 
the climbing hybrid teas will do well here, 
SET 
WHEN TO PLANT... 
Concerning rain—plant before a rain (if you are a better weather prophet than 
the Weather Bureau) but never during or just after a rain. Wait until the soil is 
dry enough to crumble or fall freely from your hand after squeezing. If soil particles 
adhere to each other or form mud ball—it is too wet. New roots cannot force their 
way into earth that has been caused to cake by planting when the soil is too wet. Never 
let the soil get hard and caked around the plants. 

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