YOU WANT YOUR ROSES to GROW and 
BLOOM SATISFACTORILY—SO DO WE... 
PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION to the INSTRUCTIONS BELOW 
HOW TO GROW ROSES SUCCESSFULLY 
Consider these simple instructions and you will 
have little difficulty in growing beautiful Roses. 
Rose bed should be in a sunny location and the 
soil should be of good garden grade and well 
drained. Fertilizer or well-rotted manure should 
be thoroughly worked into the soil as the bed is 
spaded. 
Unpack and plant Roses as soon as received 
from the nursery if at all possible. If you cannot 
plant at once, unwrap the plants and heel them 
in the ground until ready to set in their perma- 
nent places. Never throw package into the base- 
ment or garage and leave for several days and 
then expect to find plants in perfect condition 
when unwrapped. 
In planting, set the plants with the bud, or 
joint, just above the roots, about 1 2 inches be- 
low the surface of the soil. Have holes large 
enough to avoid crowding of the roots and be sure 
soil used for filling in is finely pulverized. Tramp 
soil firmly a couple of times as the hole is filled 
and leave a slight depression around each plant 
to retain water. 
As soon as planting is completed see that all 
plants and the soil around them is thoroughly 
soaked with water. Cut back all canes to a length 
of 4 or 5 inches at planting time. This is very 
important as the root system of a newly trans- 
planted Rose bush will not be able to leaf the 
canes to their entire length and many times 
plants will simply die in trying to do so. 
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Cut Back All Canes as Shown 
by Black Lines 
Set Plant With Bud or Joint 
114 Inches Below Surface of 
Soil 
If some plants appear dead and refuse to leaf 
out within a reasonable length of time after plant- 
ing, try covering them with a piece of wet burlap. 
Soak the burlap with water two or three times 
daily and leave over the plant for 48 hours. This 
will make most of them start leafing very soon. 
Some varieties seem to be slower than others in 
starting and we find that the above method will 
sometimes literally bring out plants that appear 
to be brown and entirely dead. Try it, and you 
will be amazed at the results. 
Keep the Rose planting well watered at all 
times when there is no natural rainfall. A reason- 
able application of fertilizer applied twice during 
the summer months, with an interval of at least 
30 days between applications, will induce added 
growth and extra quality in blooms. 
Allow 18 to 24 inches between plants when 
figuring the number of plants needed for a bed. 
Each succeeding spring all canes should be cut 
back to the 4- or 5-inch height as stated above. 
This causes strong new growth and abundant 
bloom to develop. 
For winter protection in cold climates, hill the dirt up around 
each plant to a height of 8 to 12 inches in late fall before the 
ground freezes. Level off as soon as danger of hard freezes 
is Over in spring and cut plants back as directed. 
All our Hybrid Tea Roses are budded on Multiflora. Once 
in a great while a shoot from this Multiflora will come up 
from below the bud. These wild shoots are easily distinguished 
by their rampant growth and their groups of 7 leaves to a 
stem. Dig down around the plant and cut the wild shoot off 
close to the root. This will prevent its growth, which other- 
wise would soon kill off the true-budded Rose variety. These 
shoots rarely come up but it is well to inspect your plants 
occasionally to be sure. 
Method of Hilling Up Soil 
for Winter Protection 
A Properly Set 
and rroperly 
Trimmed Rose 
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