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PETER HENDE^SO^i 8t CO., flEW VO^J^.— PliflflT tDEPflP.TJVIEHT. 



Crimson 



Rambler, 



ft 



Hew Hardy Climbing I 



"CRIMSON RAMBLER. 



THE LATEST AND 



BEST CONTRIBUTION 



FROM THE 



"FLOWERY KINGDOM 



TO THE 



GARDENS OF THE 



WORLD. 



EVERY GARDEN 



IN AMERICA SHOULD 



HAVE AT LEAST ONE 



"CRIMS01\ RAMBLER" 



ROSE. 



...THE NEW... 



HdRbY O-IflBINQ ROSE. 



MAGNIFICENT TRUSSES OF 

 DEEP CRIMSON FLOWERS. 



See Colored Picture on Covers 



j of this Catalogue, which rep= <, 



■» >5 i» « ic< » 



' resents only one=third of the r 



natural size of the Trusses. . . 



The new hardy Japanese climbing Eose, " Crimson Rambler," 

 is one that we offer to our customers with unbounded confidence in 

 its merits. It came to this country heralded as a wonder among 

 flowers, but the most extravagant praises yet bestowed on it fall 

 short of doing it ample justice. The judges at one of the princi- 

 pal 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 re- 

 served for new Eoses of the highest grade were entirely inadequate 

 to indicate the merits of the "Crimson Rambler." At every 

 exhibition throughout Great Britain where it was shown it received 

 the highest honors, and this opinion was endorsed. The National 

 Eose Society of England, the National Horticultural Society of 

 France and the International Exposition awarded Gold Medals to 

 "Crimson Rambler." 



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 ; plants in our grounds retained the bloom for two 

 months. The profusion of bloom is marvelous. A correspondent 

 of the London Garden stated that on one shoot he counted over 

 three hundred blooms. It is essentially a garden Rose, but 

 makes a magnificent specimen in a pot or tub. It is adapted to 

 the entire country, and should be in every garden in America. 



PRICES. Extra strong imported plants, $3.00 each ; 1st size 

 plants, iy 2 to 3 feet, SI. 50 each, $15.00 per doz.; 2d size, 1>£ to 2 

 feet, $1.00 each, $9.00 per doz.; 3d size, strong young plants from 

 3-inch pots, 40c. each, $4.00 per doz. 



iiiriTr" Purchasers of the two collections of Eoses shown on 

 IN U I Li colored plates, pages 111 and 112, in one order, -will 

 be presented with one strong young plant of the " Crimson Ram- 

 bler" Eose described on this page. 



