. Dreer's garden book 1916. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Dreer's Specially Prepar ES FOR THE GARDEN .. Partial View of Rose Trial Beds at our Nursery, Riverton, N. J. While our old customers are familiar with the grade of Roses which we send out, we wish to direct the attention of those who have never planted our stock to the manner in which these planes are prepared. The bulk of our Roses are field-grown plants, having been cultivated in fields during the growing seas
. Dreer's garden book 1916. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Dreer's Specially Prepar ES FOR THE GARDEN .. Partial View of Rose Trial Beds at our Nursery, Riverton, N. J. While our old customers are familiar with the grade of Roses which we send out, we wish to direct the attention of those who have never planted our stock to the manner in which these planes are prepared. The bulk of our Roses are field-grown plants, having been cultivated in fields during the growing season of 1915. In fall they were carefully dug, planted in pots and stored in cold greenhouses or cold frames, where artificial heat is only used to exclude severe frost. Under this treatment the plants de- velop in the most natural way, and are much superior to stock which has been forced in a high temperature into an unnatural and weakened growth, and to the comparatively worthless Roses which are sold so cheaply in a dormant condition. Our Roses, with few exceptions, are either home-grown or grown for us in Europe by specialists who have made a life-study of the Rose, a very large percentage of the Hybrid Teas and Hybrid Perpetuals having been received from the famous nurseries of Messrs. Dickson & Sons, Belfast, Ireland. With few exceptions, our Roses are budded or grafted, and while some planters prefer stock grown on their own roots on account of the liability of budded plants to throw up suckers, this will rarely occur if the deep planting as directed below is followed, and if a wild shoot should appear it is readily distinguished by its seven small leaves instead of the usual five, and should be removed close to the root. Much can be said in favor of budded plants, being more vigorous, producing finer blooms, come into bearing sooner, and are equally as permanent and hardy as those on their own roots, and many of the choicest sorts do not succeed unless budded or giaft
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