Outdoor theaters are one of many institutions making use of the barrier and 
beauty qualities of Forrest Keeling Multiflora. Note how harsh architectural 
lines are softened with the Multiflora foliage. When the metal fence deteri- 
orates, the Multiflora will “take over” the fencing job. Note: This fence was 
developed in less than 26 months, using our Jumbo Grade plants. 
to the grounds. 
GUARANTEE 
Sunning in privacy. This outdoor living-room, most attractive in town, was a 
neighborhood cross-roads for children and dogs before it was screened with 
a Forrest Keeling Multiflora hedge. The hedge also makes a perfect back- 
ground for the flower border and has attracted numerous songbird residents 
We guarantee that 95% of the No. 1 Standard (and larger sizes) Forrest Keeling Multiflora 
Rose that you buy from us will live. 
If you will notify us during the first summer (before August 15) following planting of the 
number which do not live, replacement will be made equal to 95% of the number originally 
purchased. 
Farm Utility size will ordinarily give excellent survival but we limit the guarantee to 85% 
because this smaller size is more vulnerable to adverse weather and site. 
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READ WHAT THESE EXPERTS SAY— 
Louis Bromfield in MALABAR FARM, 
current best-seller, describes the use 
of Multiflora Rose on his farm. He is 
using it to replace expensive wire fenc- 
ing. He says in three years it will pro- 
duce a hedge effective enough to turn 
cattle and in another two or three 
years will even turn a razor-back hog. 
Read what Bromfield says about sav- 
ing fencing money with Multiflora 
Rose on Malabar Farm! 
Bloom on ‘Living Fence’ — This is 
the season when throughout Missouri 
the multi-flora rose is lifting millions 
of blossoms to the June breeze. This 
plant, known as the “living fence,’ 
has had a phenomenal spread, making 
the state one of the nation’s leaders in 
cover restoration. The Conservation 
Commission reports 3000 miles of rose 
fencing have been planted in Missouri 
during the last five years. 
Farmers use it for hedging and the 
State Highway Department uses it 
for cover along cuts and banks of 
major roadways. It serves intensely 
practical purposes, as well as being 
a thing of beauty, particularly at this 
season. The multi-flora makes an ex- 
cellent fence, a good ground holder on 
slopes and a splendid cover for wild 
life. It is tough, fast-growing and 
beautiful. The commission discovered 
by a check last fall and winter that 
game and song-bird nests averaged one 
for each rod of rose fence. 
The United States Soil Conserva- 
tion Service, the Missouri Agricultural 
Extension Service and the Production 
and Marketing Association are co- 
operating in promoting multi-flora 
propagation. If the trend continues, 
within a decade Missouri’s June coun- 
tryside may furnish the richest pan- 
orama of rose bloom to be seen any- 
where in the nation. 
Globe-Democrat June 8, 1952 
Mr. Willet N. Wandell, Illinois Na- 
tural History Survey: ‘Preliminary 
checks made in 1947 showed that corn 
yields were as much as 50 per cent 
greater in rows adjacent to rose hedges 
than in rows in the center of the same 
field.” 
Frank C. Edminster, U. S. Soil Cons. 
Service, Upper Darby, Penn.: “We 
have found that multiflora rose makes 
a highly satisfactory fence for domes- 
tic livestock and one that does not 
require the maintenance of Osage 
Orange since it reaches only a mod- 
erate height in its natural growth.” 
H. V. Terrill and Jack Stanford, 
Missouri Cons. Commission: ‘‘Anoth- 
er 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 excep- 
tionally fertile bottom land areas, at 
the end of two years.” 
