Title: Fruits & flowers especially selected and grown for the southern states : anual catalogue and price list 1902
Identifier: CAT31285813 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Summit Nurseries; Pierson, D. L; D. L. Pierson (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Florida Monticello Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs
Publisher: Monticello, Fla. : Summit Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Selected Fruits and Flowers for the Southern States 13 FIELD-GROWN ROSES We make a specialty of this feature of our business, and from the increased orders and the man)- letters we receive each season in praise of our plants, we jud^^e our efforts to please customers who want fine flowers and plenty of them are meeting with success. To have plenty of tine Roses,. it is necessary to have strong', field-grown plants. Select a spot for your Rose garden that has a good clay subsoil, if possible ; use plenty of good cow-lot manure or ground bone for fertilizer, and mulch with leaves during the heat of summer and fall. Budded Roses should be planted 2 inches below where they were budded, to lessen the danger of sprouts from the wild stock, and if the sprouts do appear, cut them off at once. To trim Tea Roses, always cut the blooms with long stems, and head-in any long shoots ; also, keep old and dead branches cut out. Old stocks of Hybrid Perpetuals should be cut to within 3 or 4 inches of the ground, after blooming, to allow new wood to grow. Do not cut off" the long shoots of climbing Roses, but head-in the side branches. We propagate Roses on their own roots ; also, by budding and grafting, and send out nothing but strong, well-rooted plants, true to name. One-year plants. 20 cents each, $2 per dozen ; 2-year plants, 35 cents each, I3 per dozen. "Archduke Charles. Known all over the South as the "Confederate Rose," hav- ing the Confederate colors on the same plant, red and white. Color brilliant crimson-violet; as the blooms grow older they show streaks of white running through them. A very hardy, strong grower and deser\-es a place in e\ ery Rose garden. American Beauty. (Hybrid Perpetual.) Flowers very large, of beauti- ful form and very double; color a deep, rich rose. The fra- grance is delightful, resembling La France or the old-fashioned Damask Rose. It is truly an everbloomer. each shoot pro- ducing a bud. Bon Silene. (Tea.) Equally valuable for summer or winter blooming. Buds of beautiful form ; an u n u s u a 11 >• free bloomer. Color deep rose, shaded carmine. Bougere. (Tea.) Extra large. ver\- double and full; exceed- ingly sweet tea scent; color bronze-rose or violet-crimson, delicately shaded with lilac ; vigorous, and a profuse and constant bloomer. An old sort, but one of the most de- sirable. Captain Christy. (Hybrid Perpetual.) Delicate flesh color, shaded rose in the cen- ter; large, finely formed flower. Catherine Mermet. (Tea. ) The buds are very large and globular, the petals being re- curved and showing to advan- tage the bright pink of the cen- ter, shading into light creamy pink ; reminds one of La France in its silvery shading. Strong grower ; fine bloomer. Clothilde Soupert. (Polyantha.) This lovely Rose resembles the Tea Rose so closely that it is called a Tea Polyantha. The flowers are borne in clusters, and are of large, round, flat form, with beautifully imbricated petals ; perfectly full and dou- ble, and deliciously sweet; color beautiful pinkish amber or pale creamy yellow, deli- cately flushed with silvery rose, sometimes ivor\' white, exquisitely tinted with pale
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