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‘Fast growing—Forrest Keeling Multi- 
flora Rose grows rapidly into a dense, 
impenetrable barrier. 



Widely adapted — The type of Multi- 
flora Rose offered by us is adapted to 
a wide variety of soils and situations 
and has a wide climatic range. Mullti- 
thrives in most farming sec- 
tions of continental United States. There 
are many types of Multiflora Rose. 
This type has been selected as ideal 
for living fence use. 
flora Rose 



Does not encroach on adjacent field 
land—Multiflora Rose does not sap 
nearby fields—crops grow right up to 
a Multiflora fence; hence it consumes 
about the same space as an ordinary 
fence. 


A Forrest Keeling Multiflora fence is a 
boone to wildlife, providing fine nest- 
ing, escape and travel cover for a wide 
variety of birds and animals. Studies 
have shown that fields bordered by 
shrubby growth have less insect dam- 
age due to the increased numbers of 





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songbirds and other insect predators. 
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture authorities 
state “shrubby field borders contain 
more PEST FIGHTING INSECTS, such 
as lady beetles, than fence rows in 
sod and weeds. The same applies to 
rodents; meadow mice, probably the 
worst vertebrate enemy of growing 
crops, are common in sodded field 
boundaries, but in brush they give 
way to deer-mice, shrews and other 
species that are of little significance 
or actually an asset.” 


Multiflora Rose has special advantage 
as a divider between fields farmed on 
the contour, where it serves as a fence, 
a contour guide and an erosion buffer 
strip. Because of lateral stress, it is 
difficult to build a wire fence on the 
contour. 


Colorful in flower, foliage and fruit— 
in late May, Forrest Keeling Multiflora 
Rose becomes a mass of small white 
or dusty pink blooms. The flowers are 
followed by masses of berries, the size 
of small peas, which turn red and per- 
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sist through the winter or until con- 
sumed by birds. The attractive foliage 
appears early in the spring and lasts 
until early winter. 


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Easy to transplant—Forrest Keeling 
Multiflora Rose has proven to be one 
of the easiest plants to transplant. 


Protection against livestock diseases— 
“Such diseases as Bang’s disease, 
tuberculosis, anthrax, hemorrhagic sep- 
ticemia, certain types of pneumonia, 
calf scours, and other animal diseases 
can be transmitted by across-the-fence 
contact’, according to Dr. A. J. Durant, 
Chairman, Department of Veterinary 
Science, University of Missouri. He 
adds, ‘I am quite sure that this form of 
fence (Multiflora Rose) would reduce 
the transmission, since it is entirely 
possible for disease to be transmitted 
through a wire fence that could not be 
transmitted by living fences.” 


Forrest Keeling Multiflora Rose stays 
within bounds without pruning, clip- 
ping, shearing or training, although 
it may be clipped or sheared if desired. 





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lean soils. 
All you do is set a single row of plants one 
or two feet apart in a prepared planting 
strip! Under farm conditions, a planting strip 
is prepared in a hurry by back-furrowing 
and harrowing a bed 6 or 8 feet wide. An 
application of manure or mixed fertilizer care. 
before plowing will stimulate growth on 
One man can plant two thousand plants 
IT’S EASY TO PLANT A LIVING FENCE} 
OF MULTIFLORA ROSE! 
per day in prepared ground. 
Weeds are suppressed by either cultivating 
for the first year or two or by mulching (old 
straw, stack butts, spoiled hay, cotton hulls, 
used bedding, etc.). After that it needs no 
You can plant a MULTIFLORA FENCE while 
you're thinking about constructing an old- 
fashioned fence! 










READ WHAT THESE EXPERTS SAY 
westerly winds durin 
Louis Bromfield in Malabar Farm, cur- 
rent best-seller, describes the use of 
Multiflora Rose on his farm. He is using 
it to replace expensive wire fencing. He 
says in three years it will produce a 
hedge effective enough to turn cattle and 
in another two or three years will even 
turn a razor-back hog. Read what Brom- 
field says about saving fencing money 
with Multiflora Rose on Malabar Farm! 
Harold V. Terrill, Chief Biologist 
Missouri Conservation Commission. 
This plant fits well into standard farm- 
ing operations because of its high value 
as fencing material. Living fences of 
multiflora rose have proven their worth 
under Missouri conditions. In fact, it is 
one of the most economical and easiest 
types of fence to install.” 
Iowa Conservation Commission 
“Tt will grow from two to three feet dur- 
ing a single season and reach a maxi- 
mum height of eight feet. Due to its 
compactness and thorny nature it makes 
an excellent fence for all livestock ex- 
cept poultry. 
“the tences tosSew™ With iiss amcassm or 
pinkish-white blossoms that literally 
cover the plant, adds much to the at 
tractiveness of the landscape. The 
flowers are followed by an abundance 
of small red fruit that remain attached 
throughout the winter months. These 
fruits, or hips as they are properly 
called, attract many birds and are 
especially valuable for quail and pheas- 
ants.” 
Dr. E. C. Asbury, of New Baden, Illinois, 
says he is getting more clover seed as 
a result of an increase in population of 
pollinating insects which he attributes 
to a planting of Multiflora Rose. 
Mr. Willet N. WandellL Illinois 
Natural History Survey 
"Another advantage of Asiatic Multi- 
flora Rose fencerows is their value in 
reducing the amount of wind erosion 
during the late fall, winter, and early 
spring. During these seasons, strong 
persistant winds move fertile soil from 
many fall-plowed Illinois fields. Dam- 
age, even greater than the loss of soil, 
often occurs in the spring months when 
heavy winds seriously injure corn and 
other young crops. Well-developed fence- 
rows will not solve these problems com- 
pletely, but will serve as windbreaks 
and tend to reduce the amount of wind 
damage. Fencerows tend also to mini- 
mize the effects of our prevailing 
FORREST KEELING NURSER 
Hugh Steavenson 
the summel! 
months, cutting down loss of moisture 
from fields and preventing resultant 
reduction in crop yields. Preliminary 
checks made in 1947 showed that corn 
yields were as much as 50 per cenit 
greater in rows adjacent to rose hedges 
than in rows in the center of the same 
field. 
Frank C. Edminster, Chief, Biology 
Division U. S. Soil Conservation 
Service, Upper Darvy, Penn. 
“We have found that multiflora rose 
makes a highly satisfactory fence for 
domestic livestock and one that does not 
require the maintenance of Osage Orange 
since it reaches only a moderate height 
in its natural growth.” 
H. V. Terrill and Jack Stanford 
Missouri Conservation Commission 
“Another important feature is the fact 
that multiflora rose fences do not harbor 
as many field mice, chinch bugs and 
other insects injurious to field crops as 
sod fence rows. On average medium 
fertility soils these plants will form an 
effective barrier which will turn live- 
stock within three years. On exception- 
ally fertile bottom land areas, at the 
end of two years.” 













Mary Keeling Steavenso 
ELSBERRY, MISSOURI 

