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The accompanying illustrations show 

 some of the varied uses of 



THE HARDY 



HARDY 



New Creeping 



ROSES. 



EMORIAL" 



Rose, 



.•• .-. (ROSA .-. .•. 

 WICHURAIANA.) 



The Eoses named be)(>n- are all seedlings of Rosa Wichuraiana, 



bearing double flowers — Pink Roamer and Jersey Beauty excepted. 



They are interesting and valuable. While not so closely prostrate 



in habit as the parent, yet they creep naturally and are exceedingly 



useful for covering banks, etc., also for use as hardy climbing plants. 



EVERGREEN GEM. (Wichuraianax Madame Hoste.) Flowers 

 double, yellow, buff in bud, opening to almost white, two or 

 three laches in diameter, perfectly double, and with a delicate 

 Sweet Brier fragrance. 



GARDEMXA.. (Wichuraiana xPerle des Jardins.) Buds bright 

 yellow, open flowers, cream color, and three to three and one- 

 half inches in diameter ; delightfully fragrant. 



JERSEY BEAUTY. (Wichuraiana x Perle des Jardins.) Flow- 

 ers single, three inches in diameter, pale yellow, covering the 

 plant entirely ; very fragrant. 



PINK ROAMER. The flowers are single, over two inches in 

 diameter, a bright rich pink, with a large, silvery-white centre 

 and orange-red stamens, pioducinK a most charming effect. 



SOUTH ORANGE PERFECTION. Double flowers, soft blush 

 changing to white, about one and one-half inches in diameter. 

 Perfect rosettes in shape. 



TRIUMPH. This may well be called the Double "Memorial Rose," 

 as it preserves the color of the parent, with its characteristics of 

 growth and foliage, but the flowers are double and very fragrant. 

 They are produced in clusters of from twelve to eighteen flowers 

 on each cluster on small side shoots. 



UNIVERSAL FAVORITE. A fitting companion to the double 

 white "Memorial Rose"; identical in growth, double flowers 

 one and one-half to two inches in diameter, of a soft, light pink, 

 and very fragrant. 

 Price, 1st size, dOc. each, S4 00 per doz. ; 2d size, 30c. each. S3. 00 



per doz.; 3d size, 10c. each, SI. 00 per doz. The set of 7 Hardy 



Creeping Roses, 1st size, for S2.50; 2d size, for 81.50; 3d size, for 75c. 



FOR USE IN CEMETERIES.-It is difficult to conceive 

 anything more appropriate, beautiful and enduring for cover- 

 ing graves and plots in cemeteries than the Hardy Memorial 

 Rose. It creeps along the ground almost as closely as an 1%-y, 

 growing ten feet in one season and forming a dense mat of very 

 dark green, lustrous foliage. 



The Flowers are produced in lavish profusion, in clusters, 

 on the ends of the short side branches, after the June Eoses are 

 past, from the first week in July throughout the month, and spar- 

 ingly for the rest of the season. They are single, pure white, with 

 a golden yellow disc, five to six inches in circumference, and have 

 the strong fragrance of the Bauksia Eoses. The contrast between 

 the satiny white of the petals and the golden yellow disc is sharp 

 and pleasing, and is one of the distinctive charms of the beautiful 

 Hardy Memorial Rose, and they fairly cover the entire plant 

 when in bloom, a mass of great snowflakes with the rich, dark 

 green showing here and there. 



But its use is not confined to Cemeteries. — 



Planted in the Rose garden, almie or amcmg other Eoses, and 

 trained upright to a stake, it may be had from thiee to six feet 

 liigh, as desired, and it will send sprays of flowers drooping down- 

 ward, making the prettiest sight imaginable. Trained over a gate- 

 way it forms a perfect bower, or ic can be trained to a fence or 

 house with equal success. As a pot plant it is unique and beauti- 

 ful, in short, it is the most useful and unique of all Eoses. It has 

 been largely used throughout the famous park system of Boston 

 for covering rocky slopes, embankments and sucli places as it was 

 desirable to cover quickly with verdure. It quickly adapts itself 

 to all conditions of growth, whether barren soil, rocky ledge, fertile 

 garden, shadj- nook or sun-kissed slope, and no more fitting place 

 can be found for it than running throueli the grass. 



Price, 1st size plants. 30c. each, 4 for $1.00. 9 for S2 00. 12 for 

 S2..50 ; smaller plants, 15c. each, 4 for 50c., 9 for $1.00, 12 for S1.25 ; 

 extra selected plants, 50c. each, S4.50 per doz. 



