ALWAYS TRY SOME NEW 
ROSE VARIETIES 
With the beginning of another year we again gladly draw 
your attention to our list of roses old and new. In recent 
years the All American Rose Selections has been making 
careful trial of many of the unnamed seedlings for a period 
of years in trial grounds all over the United States. As a 
result of these tests one or more are chosen as the selec- 
tions of the year. These that are chosen are quite apt to 
succeed anywhere. Some of the others that are runners up 
are also outstanding but the great group that are elimin- 
ated would had they been placed on the market simply 
have cost the introducer money and failed to satisfy the 
purchased. We feel that in choosing a new variety for 
your garden an AARS sign on it means a really good one. 
HOW WE HANDLE ROSES 
Tho it may seem mere repetition we again tell how and 
why we do as we do. All our roses are handled in Cloverset 
pots and have been for ten or twelve years. These are a 
broad based pot of asphalt building paper containing twelve 
to fourteen pounds of well made garden soil. They are 
non-porous and do not dry out rapidly. 
We do not grow roses. They are purchased from a number 
of our largest and most capable growers, firms that raise 
them by the hundreds of thousands annually. We endeavor 
to have only two year old field grown number one roses. 
Once in a while we have a very few number one and one 
half which are a little smaller. Number two roses we do 
nothandle. When you buy a rose bush you are buying 
the prospects of plentiful bloom. You just can not get it 
_ from a number two plant. 
These roses arrive from the grower in late winter or 
early spring and are immediately potted and kept under 
temperatures of fifty to fifty-five degrees with a reasonable 
humidity. There is no drying out; the plants start to 
grow within a few days. As soon as they are well started 
and leaved out they are transferred to protected cold 
frames and watered, fed and sprayed till sold. 
You can purchase them with safety at any time, even 
in full bloom. You can come out, pick out the plants in 
the varieties that you like best and, if in bloom, take 
them home and have a colorful garden at once. All that 
_ is necessary is to tear or cut away the pot, leaving a solid 
1 of soil. The ball and the root system are not dis- 
turbed. Theplant does not wilt, but continued growth and 
blossom is in order. 
As you get roses from catalog houses they are in mall 
packages, lightly wrapped to lower tranportation costs. The 
express bill is smaller but there is more chance of loss as 
they are often badly dried on arrival. If not cut back 
and protected after planting they are often a total loss. 
If they have been in too warm a place before you got them 
they have new growth which dies back again with loss. 
Those on open store counters are frequently dried out and 
dead before being sold. 
The demand for our good well established potted roses 
has grown with the years and early in the season we are 
sold out of many sorts. The vigorous growing plants with 
a solid ball of fertile soil cost only a few cents more than 
weak dried out ones from the corner store. Good roses 
are never too plentiful. Make your selections early and 
have them reserved for you. 
