. Dreer's 1909 garden book. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. DREER'S SPECIALLY PREPARED Roses for the Garden. While many of our 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 plants are pre- pared. The- bulk of our Roses are what are known as field-grown plants; that is, the plants have been cultivated in fields during the growing season of 1908. In fal
. Dreer's 1909 garden book. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. DREER'S SPECIALLY PREPARED Roses for the Garden. While many of our 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 plants are pre- pared. The- bulk of our Roses are what are known as field-grown plants; that is, the plants have been cultivated in fields during the growing season of 1908. In fall they were carefully dug, planted in pots and stored in cold greenhouses, where artificial heat is only used to exclude severe frost. Under this treatment the plants develop 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 at the same time they must not be confounded with the comparatively worthless Holland-grown Roses, which are sold so cheaply in a dormant condition each season. Our Roses are either home-grown or grown for us in England or Ireland by spec- ialists who have made a life-study of the Rose, a very large per- centage of the Hybrid Teas and Hybrid Perpetuals having been re- ceived from the famous nurseries of Messrs. Dickson & Sons, Bel- fast, Ireland. Most of these plants 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 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 just as permanent and hardy as those on their own roots. HOW TO GROW ROSES. SITUATION.—Good Roses may be grow
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