Title: The Good & Reese Co. : spring 1927 [catalog] /
Abstract: Planting Guide O UR SUCCESS in business depends on your success -and to aid our present and prospective customers to succeed with every plant purchased from us, we cheerfully give the following "first aid" suggestionsgathered from experience and from successful plant lovers in different parts of our country.It is our aim to cover in a practical manner the questions usually asked by the average plant loverremembering good soil, good drainage, water at needed time, sunshine when obtainable, the whole mixed judiciously with common sense and you can grow most anything.This book is not only a catalogue of everything for the home o«r garden but is a Planting Guide.Preserve it for reference. RosesYour first requisite to success is to procure summer propagated -fall or winter rested-own root roses.As long as a stem of such a plant remains you have the same Rose.Budded or grafted plants will throw shoots from the roots and eventually sap the very life from the graft and leave you a bed of wild stuff that never blooms.Our slogan for forty years, "Buy Own Root Roses" is still in vogue and from the complimentary letters received this fall from New England to California and from the Lakes to the Gulf about the success of own rootRoses -roots the slogan firmer in our minds than ever and we still grow them by the million.Roses for Outdoor Planting THE SOIL-A deep clay loam with free drainage.If drainage is bad, the soil must be thrown out to a depth of ISinches, and, if it is not convenient to use tiles, about 5 or 6 inches of broken To have large blooms, it is absolutely necessary to disbud; that means, to break off all the side shoots on each stem, above the first or second set of leaves, leaving the sprouts near the base of each stem, so as to insure a new crop of blossoms.Dahlias will continue to bloom, until the frost kills tne tops; the tubers are dug and stored in a dry cellar or basement, cover them with dry sand, soil or sawdust, to keep from shriveling.Divide the tubers in the spring after the eyes show plainly, being careful, that each tuber has an eye.Cover them again and keep dry until planted.Wood ashes used sparingly and bone flour arc essential to fine Dahlias.