- Quick Blooming Roses 
Guaranteed to bloom this 
season or money back 
The illustrations in this advertisement show: 
Fi t - A Quick Blooming Rose of mailing size ready to be packed. Notice 
IFst ° the sturdiness of stem and branches, and the wonderful root development. 
Quite a contrast to the spindling growth and weak root system of the average mail- 
order rose, isn’t it? All our roses are grown on their own roots. 
GUARANTEED 
TO 
BLOOM 
This represents a portion of a bed of Quick 
Second ° Blooming Roses at the height of the season— 
the first year, remember. Doesn’t it make you want a bed 
of roses of your very own—that you can admire and smell 
and pluck from June (in some instances May) until frost ? 
: .- ‘An actual photographic reproduction of 
Third e a Quick Blooming Rose Bush at the end 
of the first year after the frosts have killed the leaves. 
Those who have had a hard struggle to even keep 
alive the ordinary unduly forced soft-wooded weakly 
mail-order roses, can hardly believe that such a tre- 
mendous growth is possible. Yet this plant was but 
one (and not the largest) of a bed set out last May 
and which began blooming in June and was never 
without a plentitude of large fragrant roses until 
freezing weather. | 
This in a nutshell is the first season’s history of one of 
our Quick Blooming Roses. It 
has taken 49 years’ experience to 
enable us to produce—by a method 
peculiarly our own—roses like this. And 
so great is our faith that these roses will thrive and flower even 
under adverse conditions that we guarantee them to bloom the | ° ™ey back. Delivered free. 
first season—or your money back. And your simple cite 
word is all the proof we require. 7 for 
15 for 
These Quick Blooming Roses, together with prac- 50 for 6. 
100 for 12.00 
tically all the new and old roses worth growing, 
Prices of 
Quick Blooming Roses. 
Guaranteed to bloom this year 
Wherever selection is left to us we will 
send only the choicest sorts. If you prefer 
are fully described in our new 136 page Color 
Plate “Floral Guide.” It is the most interest- 
ing, practical and helpful hand-book of Roses 
and other flowers published. 
Write for a copy to-day—free 
a// 
to do your-own choosing write for our list 
of “50 Kinds of Roses guaranteed to 
bloom the first season.” 
Orders will be booked to go when you 
wish, or if you request it, at the time we 
consider most suitable for planting in your 
locality. 
. 7 ZA S @ 
Growers Of (he Dest fFOSCS It AMECITCA 
BOX 24A G 
