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THE CRIMSON RAMBLER. 
Magnificent Pyramidal Clusters of Rich Crimson Roses. 
===———__FEVERY CLUSTER A PERFECT BOUQUET OF ROSES IN ITSELR. 
This grand Rose improves upon acquaintance; the better it is known 
We have occasionally to modify opinions 
formed of the value of new Roses, but the ‘‘Crimson Rambler’’ is one 
that we offer to our customers, after an extended trial, with greater 
It came to this country heralded as a wonder 
among flowers, but the most extravagant praises yet bestowed on it fall 
the more popular it becomes. 
confidence inits merits. 
short of doingitample justice. Itis adapted to the 
should be in every garden in America. (See cut.) 
THE PRIZES IT WON, The judges at 
one of the principal flower shows in England, when 
awarding it a Gold Medal, the highest honor they 
could bestow, epitomized the views of all who had 
seen it when they said that the ordinary premiums 
reserved for new Roses of the highest grade were 
entirely inadequate to indicate the merits of the 
««Crimson Rambler.” At every exhibition through- 
out Great Britain where it was shown it received 
the highest honors, and this opinion was endorsed. 
The National Rose Society of England, the National 
Horticultural Society of France and the Inter- 
national Exposition awarded Gold Medals to 
¢¢Crimson Rambler.” 
ITS GROWTH. It is of rapid, vigorous 
growth; plants in our grounds attained a height of 
fifteen feet the past season. The flowers are 
produced in trusses, pyramidal in shape, good 
specimens measuring nine inches from base to 
tip, and seven inches across, fairly covering the 
plant from the ground to the top, so that it is one 
mass of glowing crimson. The color is superb, 
and remains strong and vivid to the end; plantsinour 
grounds retained the bloom for two months. The 
profusion of bloom is marvelous, over three hun- 
dred blooms having been counted on one shoot. 
AS A POT PLANT. It is essentially a 
garden Rose, but makes a magnificent specimen 
in a pot or tub. There was exhibited in Boston a 
plant of the ‘‘Crimson Rambler” growing in a 
twelve-inch pot, the plant being about four feet 
high and three feet wide, bearing nearly five 
thousand buds and flowers; it was grown by Mr. 
Jackson Dawson from a plant furnished by us. 
Price, 1st size plants, 50c. each, $4.50 per doz. ; 2d 
size, 30c. each, $3.00 per doz. ; 3d size, strong plants 
from 3-inch pots, 15c. each, $1.50 per doz.; small 
plants in 2-inch pots, 
10c. each, $1.00 
per doz. 
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entire country, and 
THE_ > 
YELLOW RAMBLER 
(AGLAIA). 
This promises to supply that 
‘‘long-felt want,’’ a double yel- 
low hardy climbing Rose, a 
thing which has been sought 
after the world over. It is 
perfectly double, very fragrant, 
entirely hardy, having 
withstood, unprotect- 
ed, a prolonged tem- 
perature of from zero 
to two degrees below. 
It is related to the 
Crimson Rambler,and, 
like it, blooms in large 
trusses, often bearing 
from 120 to 150 
flowers in a cluster. 
The flowers last three 
to four weeks without 
fading. It is a very 
vigorous grower, mak- 
ing shoots 8 to 10 feet 
in one season when 
well established, so that it posses- 
ses all the requisites for unbounded 
popularity. (See cut.) 
THE WHITE RAMBLER, 
‘¢ THALIA.”’ 
This variety, Thalia (the White 
Rambler), isa fitting companion for 
the Crimson Rambler, closely re- 
sembling it in vine and foliage as 
well as in the greatclusters of pure 
white flowers, which are deliciously 
fragrant. The flowers remain on the plant along time—from three 
to five weeks—and keep a long time when cut. The plantis perfectly 
hardy, equal in this respect to the Crimson Rambler, and where one is 
planted the other should be also. By growing thisin a potand training 
it to a pyrumidal trellis, a fine plant may be had in bloom for Easter. 
/ THE PINK RAMBLER (EvPHRosyne). 
This beautiful variety is fit to rank with the two above mentioned. It is 
from the same source as the White Rambler, fully the equal of both in hardi- 
ness, vigor, size and profusion of flowers and blooming qualities. 
Price, for the three Ramblers above, 1st size, 50c. each, $4.50 per doz.; 2d size, 
30c. each, $3.00 per doz. ; 3d size, 10c. each, $1.00 per doz. 
Special. The four ‘‘ Ramblers,” $1.75, $1.00, 35c.; 1st, 2d, 3d sizes. 
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