How Does Your Garden Grow: Roses
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An episode of John Nash Ott's weekly television program How Does Your Garden Grow?, focusing on the rose. How Does Your Garden Grow? first aired in 1951 on the Chicago television station WNBQ (channel 5), and became part of NBC network programming where it continued to air until 1956.
Credits
John Nash Ott Jr. (filmmaker); John Nash Ott Jr. (narrator); John Nash Ott Jr. (host); C. Eugene Pfister (participant)
Complete catalog record
Date: circa 1953
Cfa collection: John Nash Ott Collection
Notes: Host John Ott greets the audience from his home studio and introduces the day's topic, the rose. Ott describes the hybrid tea, the Climber, the Rambler, and the floribunda, and confesses that the rose's long hybridization history has contributed toward his own confusion when deciphering one rose type from another. Ott then unwraps roses packed in tin foil, prunes the roots, and carries them into his backyard where he demonstrates how to plant a rose, prune its cane, and cultivate around the bush.; The scene shifts to a time-lapse sequence of several roses blooming accompanied by Bertram Walton O'Donnell's "Canzonetta."; The scene transitions again to the greenhouse of C. Eugene Pfister in Mundelein, IL, who demonstrates how to hybridize roses. Pfister uses tweezers to remove a rose's stamens, dusts its pollen onto the stigmas of another, and then cuts open the developed seed pods, and plants the extracted seeds.; Back in Ott's home studio, he demonstrates how to graft a rosebud and rootstock together, and encourages bending the cane's top in order to help divert energy into the bud's growth. Next, Ott demonstrates how to perform a cane graft, but as he does so, he acknowledges the popular preference for the bud graft. Finally, Ott displays and recommends a guide published by the American Rose Society that compiles ratings for rose varieties tested by the Men's Garden Clubs of America, as well as a second American Rose Society booklet written for beginners who want to grow roses.; C. Eugene Pfister of Mundelein, IL was a president of the American Rose Society, a founder of the Men's Garden Club of Highland Park, IL, a president of Men's Garden Clubs of America, and the first president of the Chicago Horticultural Society. He also helped organize the Chicago Regional Rose Society.
Sponsor: John Ott Pictures, Inc.
Subjects: Gardens; Flowers; Plants; Processes and techniques
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Winnetka; North America > United States > Illinois > Mundelein
Cfa elements: 970 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36475
Cfa collection: John Nash Ott Collection
Notes: Host John Ott greets the audience from his home studio and introduces the day's topic, the rose. Ott describes the hybrid tea, the Climber, the Rambler, and the floribunda, and confesses that the rose's long hybridization history has contributed toward his own confusion when deciphering one rose type from another. Ott then unwraps roses packed in tin foil, prunes the roots, and carries them into his backyard where he demonstrates how to plant a rose, prune its cane, and cultivate around the bush.; The scene shifts to a time-lapse sequence of several roses blooming accompanied by Bertram Walton O'Donnell's "Canzonetta."; The scene transitions again to the greenhouse of C. Eugene Pfister in Mundelein, IL, who demonstrates how to hybridize roses. Pfister uses tweezers to remove a rose's stamens, dusts its pollen onto the stigmas of another, and then cuts open the developed seed pods, and plants the extracted seeds.; Back in Ott's home studio, he demonstrates how to graft a rosebud and rootstock together, and encourages bending the cane's top in order to help divert energy into the bud's growth. Next, Ott demonstrates how to perform a cane graft, but as he does so, he acknowledges the popular preference for the bud graft. Finally, Ott displays and recommends a guide published by the American Rose Society that compiles ratings for rose varieties tested by the Men's Garden Clubs of America, as well as a second American Rose Society booklet written for beginners who want to grow roses.; C. Eugene Pfister of Mundelein, IL was a president of the American Rose Society, a founder of the Men's Garden Club of Highland Park, IL, a president of Men's Garden Clubs of America, and the first president of the Chicago Horticultural Society. He also helped organize the Chicago Regional Rose Society.
Sponsor: John Ott Pictures, Inc.
Subjects: Gardens; Flowers; Plants; Processes and techniques
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Winnetka; North America > United States > Illinois > Mundelein
Cfa elements: 970 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36475
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:25