ANNE 
VANDERBILT 
Everblooming 
Sub-Zero 
Hybrid Tea 
COPPER 
GLOW 
Hardy 
Climber 
CULTURAL SUGGESTIONS 
FOR SUB-ZERO ROSES 
BED. Any soil suitable to grow Corn or Potatoes can produce good 
Roses. Cow manure is the only best fertilizer, dish water is most as good. 
WHEN TO EXPECT PLANTS. We favor fall planting. 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 for 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 containing manure, fertilizer, 
leaves, old or new, or any form of humus, in winter contact with stems 
will kill the plants. The word ‘‘Clean Dirt’? herein means 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 cover with 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, against 
zero weather. 
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. 
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 against 10 to 15 below. Tie canes to- 
gether 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 ex- 
pected, tie snugly to firm support and wrap newspapers over two inches 
of straw from base to top, repeat this with straw and burlap wrapping 
twice more. This has protected where same straw and burlap in one 
wrapping has failed. 
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 unpro- 
tected, 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, 
Pee against heaving in damp or heavy loam with consequent breaking 
of roots. 
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. Roses need about one inch of water each week, espe- 
cially in the fall 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, 
wate abundantly when needed. 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 defoliation on account of blackspot and require no dusting or 
spraying; others are more free than the average. Weekly dusting or spray- 
ing thoroughly on both sides of leaves and stems, requires but one-half 
minute per plant, insures performance and more midsummer and _ fall 
bloom. Consult 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 chewing things and D.D.T. very lightly to 
lall Jap beetle, rose bugs and most other insects. 
PRUNING. Consists in removing in the spring all small and unwanted 
wood. Cut dead wood back to a second good eye. Hard spring pruning 
produces less and larger flowers. As blooms fade out 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 MIXTURE. 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 Sub-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. 
