BRIGHTRIDGE GREENHOUSES 
FLORIBUNDA TYPE OF SUB-ZERO ROSES 
These are so named because of their constant and intense bloom. Some of the Sub-Zero 
Hybrid Teas fully qualify for both classes. 
All of true Hybrid Tea form (“Nearly Wild” excepted). Worthy of any Rose bed. 
_ ANNE VANDERBILT. Coppery orange; semi-double. 
CURLY PINK. Large, full, recurled flowers, often in immense clusters; 
blooms of ideal Hybrid Tea type. 
FREE GOLD. Spectrum yellow, informal flowers. Very good. 
LAFTER. Sparkling orange shades and yellow, semi-double in clusters. A 
welcome note of cheerfulness. 
NEARLY WILD. Larger than most wild Roses, single flowers in clusters, very 
colorful and supreme in constancy of bloom. Gives beautiful color all 
summer to a creeper planting. 
YELLOW CURLS. Pure yellow, very double, medium in size, elegant in form; 
some grow 100 blooms on this one. 
RED ROBIN. A brilliant red Rose of great dependence. 
TOMKINS RED. Semi-double, very dark red blooms often in clusters. More 
than 100 blooms. 
PRICES: Except as noted, $1.75 each; 3 for $5.00; $18.00 per doz. Extra large size plants, all varie- 
ties, each 50c and $1.00 extra. Tree standards topped with any Sub-Zero Hybrid Tea, $7.50 each. 
Cultural Suggestions 
BED. Any soil suitable to grow Corn or Potatoes can 
produce good Roses. Cow manure is the only best fer- 
tilizer. 
WHEN TO EXPECT PLANTS. We favor fall plant- 
ing. Spring orders are shipped for planting usually before 
April 15th; 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> fer 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. Fall planting is not to establish plants before 
winter but so buried they are in the best possible 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 contain- 
ing 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 inches. Preferably in full sunshine. Sub-Zero Hybrid 
Teas 144 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 or cloth, 
burlap or basket; remove in ten days. 
FALL PLANTING is not to establish growth of roots 
or plants, but roots and stems frozen in muddy earth is 
the best winter storage, to plant when garden is first 
ready. Follow spring planting suggestions. 
WINTER PROTECTION. Apply one of the following 
methods, just before the ground freezes, to insure larger 
plant in the spring. 
No. 1. Tie stems and canes together. Bank up with 
three sods, grass side inside. This is sufficient if top and 
edges of sods are sealed with clean dirt. 
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No. 2. Another protective procedure is to hill up 
around stems with clean dirt, 6 to 8 inches, tie around 
plant and over top five layers of newspaper; cover with 
inverted basket. 
No. 3. Where 10 to 15 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, 
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 together 
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 unbendable 
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 bur- 
lap wrapping twice more. This has protected where same 
straw and burlap in one wrapping 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. 
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 heaving 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 infre- 
quently and abundantly as needed, especially in the fall 
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months, for winter resistance. Cultivate with hoe at 
least monthly. Keep all weeds, grass and other growing 
things at least two feet away, large shrubbery and trees 
more distant. Apply “‘dish water’ to soil when available. 
REMARKABLE MIDSUMMER DISPLAY is easily 
obtained by stretching sheeting four feet above Rose bed 
during hot sunny hours, with rings sewed in corners, 
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 needec. 
Plants, especially trees, should not dry out in the fall. 
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 defolia- 
tion 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 midsummer and fall bloom. Con- 
sult your seed store for dependable duster or sprayer. 
Use “Mike” sulphur and/or Fermate to control fungus; 
nicotine for sucking insects; arsenate of lead for all chew- 
ing 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 MIX- 
TURE. 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 universally 
adopted for this class is not appropriate, as their rebloom 
is very much more limited than that of the Zub-Zero 
Hybrid Teas, and is dependent upon environment; 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. 
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