Farmland WMuttifs 
Multiflora Rose 
Is the new-type living fence developed by 
the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. Although 
used by nurserymen as root stock for grafted 
ornamental roses for years, it has only recent- 
ly been used to create practical living fence. 
Multiflora Rose 
Makes a stock-tight living fence in three to 
five years. How fast it grows depends upon 
the quality of the stock you plant, the fertility 
of the soil, how well you plant it, and how 
well you keep down weed competition for the 
first two years after planting. 
Multiflora Rose 
When full grown makes a living fence six to 
eight feet tall and as many feet wide. Your 
plantings will reach their maximum growth in 
seven or eight years. At this time they will 
form a solid wall which does not grow any 
higher or taller, and through which livestock 
cannot pass. 
Multiflora Rose 
Does not spread by suckering. This means 
that the roots will not send up any new 
plants into your pastures and adjacent fields. 
The Soil Conservation Service says: " ... in 
12 years of observation there is no record 
of its becoming a nuisance. It can honestly 
be said that spreading is not a problem.” 
Multiflora Rose 
Will stop cattle because it is armed with a 
multitude of sharp thorns. The Soil Conser- 
vation Service reports: ''When planted about 
18 inches apart at Elsberry, Missouri, it turned 
horses, cows, sheep, goats, and hogs that had 
been ringed.” 
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