MISS ELLA V. BAINES, THE WOMAN FLORIST, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 



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Hardy Climbing Roses 



NEWER 

 VARIETIES 



INCLUDING THE RAMBLERS, CL. POLYANTHAS and WICHURAIANA. 



These Roses are suitable for planting where they can climb on walls, fences, galleries, porches, pillars, pergolas, arches, 

 etc.; in fact, wherever a hardy climber is required. This list includes the Ramblers, Climbing Polyanthas, Wichuraianas, etc. 



AMERICAN PILLAR — Climbing 

 Polyantha. A new single flower- 

 ing Rose with blooms two to three 

 inches across, borne in immense 

 clusters. Color lovely apple-blos- 

 som-pink with bright golden sta- 

 mens followed in autumn with red 

 hips. A great Rose to grow in pots 

 for Easter. Price, 15 cents; two- 

 year-old, 40 cents. 



CLIMBING AMERICAN BEAUTY— 

 Climbing H. P. A seedling from 

 American Beauty with Wichur- 

 aiana and Tea blood in its veins. 

 The introducers say of it : "Same 

 color, size and fragrance as Amer- 

 ican Beauty, with the addition of 

 the climbing habit. Good foliage, 

 and better blooming qualities. 

 One plant of this new Rose will 

 produce twenty times as many 

 flowers in June as the old Ameri- 

 can Beauty, besides blooming oc- 

 casionally during the summer. 

 Blooms three to four inches 

 across ; has proved perfectly hardy 

 and stands heat and drought as 

 well as any Rose in our collec- 

 tion." I feel sure this Rose has 

 a great future. 25 cents; two- 

 year-old, 50 cents. 



CLIMBING BABY RAMBLER — 

 Climbing Polyantha. This is a 

 true ever-blooming Crimson Ram- 

 bler, for at this writing (August 

 1st) it is in full bloom in the 

 garden with enormous heads of 

 richest crimson. There has been a 

 widespread demand for a Crimson 

 Rambler that would bloom more 

 than once. Here you have it. 

 Everyone knows how Baby Ram- 

 bler is always in bloom. This is simply a climbing form 

 of the Baby Rambler, embracing all its good qualities. 

 Price, 20 cents; two-year-old, 40 cents. 



DR. W. VAN FLEET— Wichuraiana. Flowers when open run 

 four inches and over in diameter. The center is built high, 

 petals beautifully undulated and cupped. The color is a re- 

 markable delicate shade of flesh-pink on the outer surface, 

 deepening to rosy-flesh in the center. The flowers are full 

 and double, of delicate perfume ; buds pointed. It very much 

 resembles Souv. de Pres. Carnot in color. Superb. Price, 

 20 cents; two-year-old, 40 cents. 



FLOWER OF FAIRFIELD — This is a much heralded ever- 

 blooming Crimson Rambler ; deep crimson in immense clus- 

 ters. Price, 15 cents; two-year-old, 30 cents. 



GOLDFINCH — Buds deep yellow, opening lemon-white, semi- 

 double, borne in large trusses. 20c; two-year-old, 40c. 



GRAF ZEPPELIN — Climbing Polyantha. A brilliant rose col- 

 ored flower that attracts from a great distance ; vigor of 

 Crimson Rambler. Cupped form ; double. In immense 

 trusses ; unusually floriferous. This Rose is unsurpassed as 

 a climber. Price, 25 cents. 



HIAWATHA — This is a great favorite to force in pots for 

 Easter. Brilliant scarlet-white at base of petals ; flowering in 

 large clusters most brilliant and effective. Price, 25 cents; 

 two-year-old, 50 cents. 



RED DOROTHY PERKINS— (Excelsa.) It is a good deal to 

 claim for a Rose, but I am within bounds when I de- 

 scribe Excelsa as a brilliant Crimson Rambler flower on 

 glossy, varnished Wichuraiana foliage. The defects of Crim- 

 son Rambler are its unsightly foliage in unseasonable weath- 

 er, and its defoliation by insects ; the infusion of Wichu- 

 raiana blood assures an ornamental climber which is nearly 

 evergreen, and this will assure this lovely crimson-scarlet 

 pillar Rose a place in every American garden, for it is 

 quite hardy in addition to all its other fine points. If you 

 want the best red climbing Rose, plant Red Dorothy Per- 

 kins. Price, 25 cents; two-year-old, 50 cents. 



Red Dorothy Perkins. 



MRS. F. W. FLIGHT— Beautiful pink with white center; semi- 

 double, large trusses ; lovely. Price, 20 cents. 



TAUSENDSCHOEN or THOUSAND BEAUTIES— A climbing 

 Rose that comes to us from Germany. The flowers upon 

 first opening are the most delicate shade of pink ever 

 seen in a Rose, might be described as a white delicately 

 flushed pink changing to rosy-carmine. It gets its name 

 from its many flowers and the variation in coloring ; beauti- 

 ful ; will become as famous as Crimson Rambler or Dorothy 

 Perkins. I wrote the above a year ago, and now I can 

 add that this Rose is sweeping the country like a prairie 

 fire. You can word paint all you want to and then you will 

 have left something unsaid. Simply a wonder. Price, 20 

 cents; two-year-old, 40 cents. 



VEILCHENBLAU, The Blue Rose— The most wonderful Rose 

 of the century for the reason that it marks a decided ad- 

 vance in the color of the Rose hitherto only dreamed of. 

 Veilchenblau or Violet Blue is the proper name, but no 

 doubt it will be known in America as the Blue Rose. This 

 Rose is going to have a larger sale by far than Crimson 

 Rambler. Have I seen it flower? Well, I guess yes, and 

 my word for it if you want something to cause you to stop 

 and take notice, the Blue Rose will All the bill. At a dis- 

 tance of fifty or a hundred feet a bush of the Blue Rose in 

 full bloom will startle you. A seedling from Crimson Rambler, 

 semi-double flowers larger than that variety, produced in 

 large trusses. This Rose first opens pink, but quickly 

 changes to violet-blue. The introducer describes it as being 

 reddish-lilac, changing to amethyst and steel blue. Very 

 distinct and extremely pleasing. A wonder. Price, 20 cents; 

 three for 50 cents; two-year-old, 40 cents. 



WHITE DOROTHY PERKINS— (B. R. Cant, 1908.) It has 

 been the cry of nurserymen for years for a white climber 

 that would rank up with Crimson Rambler, and now I 

 have the pleasure of offering this White Dorothy Perkins 

 that in every way is the equal, if not superior, to Crim- 

 son Rambler as a red, and Dorothy Perkins as a pink. 

 This Rose has no rival as a white climber. Price, 20 

 cents; two-year-old, 40 cents. 



