ELLA V. BAINES, THE WOMAN FLORIST, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO 9 
‘Hardy Climbing Roses, Including Ramblers 
Price, 25 cents each; any five for $1.00. Two-year-old plants, 50 cents; three for $1.25. 
AVIATEUR BLERIOT—Saffron-yellow, golden center. This is a great Rose in California, where it is seen at its best. 
BALTIMORE BELLE—Blush-white, in large clusters. although suited for general planting. 
CLIMBING BABY RAMBLER—Bright red; blooms all the time. | HIAWATHA—Brilliant ruby-carmine with clear white eye. 
CRIMSON RAMBLER—The flowers are in huge red panicles. LADY GAY—Very double, deep pink, in large clusters. 
DOROTHY PERKINS (Perkins, 1902)—(W.) A most beautiful | MADAME ALFRED CARRIERE—Pure white suffused with 
deep pink; the flowers are borne in large clusters of small double yellow at base of petals. 
blooms and are very sweetly scented; quite first class. Another MARY WASHINGTON—Pure white; perfectly double; fine. 
Rose for the masses. : 
EMPRESS OF CHINA—Bright pink, in large clusters. PHILADELPHIA RAMBLER—Clusters of darkest crimson. 
PRAIRIE QUEEN—The old standby red climber. 
FLOWER OF FAIRFIELD—The everblooming Crimson Ram bler. Race eee 
WHITE DOROTHY PERKINS—Pure white, in immense clusters. 
FORTUNE’S DOUBLE YELLOW, or BEAUTY OF GLAZEN- : 
WOOD (Fortune, 1845)—(H. N.) Yellow, flaked with carmine. | YELLOW RAMBLER (Aglaia)—Light lemon-yellow. 
Moss Roses 
Price, 35 cents each; two-year-old plants 60 cents. 
These are probably a sport of the Cabbage Rose. The origin of the double Moss Rose is left to conjecture. They have always 
been favorites, for what can be more elegant than the bud of the Moss Rose and more delicious than its fragrance? Perfectly hardy. 
ELIZABETH ROWE—This is an old favorite with its large deep ; MOUSSELINE—Pure white flower, buds heavily and beauti- 
pink buds well mossed. A beauty. fully mossed. 
HENRi MARTIN—Large, full flower of deep red; well mossed; PRINCESS ADELAIDE—Deep blush-pink with buds that are 
fragrant. thoroughly mossed. 
Miscellaneous Roses 
Under this heading are listed all the Roses not embraced in the different families or types that we name in the preceding 
pages. 
AMOENA, The Pink Flowering Cherokee Rose—The flowers | covering graves and plots in cemeteries than the Hardy Memo 
are the same as the White Flowering Cherokee, except that the tial Rose. It creeps along the ground as closely as an Ivy 
color is a glowing pink with a golden-yellow center. Resembles The flowers are produced in lavish profusion in July. They are 
huge apple blossoms. 25 cents each; two-year plants, single, pure white, with a golden-yellow disc, five to six inches 
50 cents. in circumference. It is also immensely valuable as a Climbing 
LAEVIGATA, the Single White Cherokee Rose—This is the Rose covering arches, fences, etc.’ 25 cents each; two-year 
famous Cherokee Rose so well known in. California. Large plants, 60 cents. 
pure white flowers with center filled with golden-yellow anthers. WHITE BANKSIA, or LADY BANKS—Pure white; violet 
25 cents each; two-year plants, 60 cents. fragrance. 25 cents each; two-year plants,:50 cents. 
WICHURAIANA, or MEMORIAL ROSE—It is difficult to con- YELLOW BANKSIA, or LADY BANKS—Deep yellow; violet 
ceive anything more appropriate, beautiful and enduring for fragrance. 25 cents each; two-year plants, 50 cents. 
A Report From Some of Our Pleased Customers on Their 
Success With Our Roses 
Dear Sirs:—First of all | want to thank you for the Hamilton, Ohio. 
splendid roses you sent on my order March 31st, which Dear Sirs:—Much has been said and written of the 
are doing exceptionally well this year and the roses I differences and advantages of roses grown on own roots 
have purchased from you previously all are blooming and budded and grafted. 
beautifully. | have established quite a reputation in My experience in the late winter and spring of 1920 
rose growing, having visitors from all our suburbs and has convinced me of the advantages of own-root roses. 
each one is very enthusiastic about my garden. Now As your record will show, | purchased a number of your 
I am very willing and anxious to give due credit for the own-root roses during the past ten years and now have 
quality of the rose bushes, as | know that without the a bed containing nearly 100 roses. 
quality of rose bushes you cannot produce fine blooms In the fall of 1919, I covered this bed liberally with 
no matter what manner of care was given them. I straw for winter protection. During the winter of 1919- 
have always found that the roses | purchased from you 1920 we had considerable ice and heavy freezes. When 
were true to name and were just as you represented | removed the straw in the early spring | was surprised 
them. Am a member of the Garden Club of Norwood to learn that the icy condition during the winter com- 
and having grown roses for about fifteen years, it is pletely destroyed the tops of the roses to such extent, 
my turn to give my talk at the Club and the subject I that I could not even locate a plant. To my surprise 
have been assigned is roses, a subject | am perfectly early in April new growths began to come forward and 
familar with and I have been urging more people to when early June arrived, the old bed was covered with 
grow roses as | feel it is a plant people think no one a ‘‘carpet’”’ of roses. We had the pleasure of having 
except an expert florist can grow and there is no flower roses on our table constantly during the summer and 
that gives more plessure and has a more dignified place gathered a bouquet of roses as late as November 6th. 
than the rose; it is the queen of all flowers and I have If any of your customers have met with disappoint- 
a great many varieties of all kinds from early spring ment, or if any prospective buyers desire real pleasure, 
until the winter sets in. Would you care to send me let them try a bed of ‘‘own-root’’ roses of such varieties 
about thirty of your catalogs of Spring 1922, as | should as Etoile De France, Radiance, Kaiserin, Sunburst, 
like to give one to each of our members and I have no Killarney, etc., and use liberally of sheep manure for 
doubt you will receive orders from a good many of them fertilizer and give proper care and the rose bed will be 
when they want roses. a success and pleasure. 
Respectfully, Yours truly, 
Mrs. W. G. R. H. W.B. 
Hobart, Oklahoma. 
Dear Sir:—Every one knows we have the flower yard of the town. Ninety per cent of these flowers came from 
you and ninety-nine per cent of the flowers purchased from you during the past four years have grown and were 
as represented by you. 
The fifty roses from you last spring all as represented and forty-nine of them leafing out fine and dandy now. 
Yours very truly, pees. 
