120 PETER HENDERSON & GO., NEW YORK.—PLANT DEPARTMENT. 
vee Crimson Rambler 
opposite we sbow... : 
The New Hardy Climbing Rose. 
Magnificent Trusses of Rich Crimson FIOWErs. 
The new hardy Japanese climbing Rose, ‘‘ Crimson Rambler,” is one that 
we offer to our customers, after a year’s trial, with greater confidence in its 
merits. It came to this country heralded asa 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 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 
throughout 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 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, an 
seven inches across, fairly covering the plant from the ground to the 
top, so that itis one mass of glowing crimson. The color is supeiy, 
and remains strong and vivid to the end; plants in our grounds retaii ea 
the bloom for two months. The profusion of bloom is maryelous. A corre- 
spondent of the London Garden stated that on one shoot he counted over 
three hundred blooms. It is essentially a garden Rose, but makes a mag- 
nificent specimen in a pot or tub. It is adapted to the entire country, 
and should be in every garden in America. 
PRICES. Extra large plants, $1.50 each; 1st size plants, $1.00 each, $9.00 
per doz.; 2d size, 75c. each, $7.50 per doz.; 3d size, strong young plants 
from 3-inch pots, 30c. each, $3.00 per doz.; strong plants from 2-inch pot 
20c. each, $2.09 per doz. Three or more sold at the rate per dozen. 
On the Back Cover of this Catalogue... 
we sbow a spray of... 
Che, CMScmorial [Rose 
(Rosa Wlichuratiana). 
Ge on the ground like Ivy; dark green leaves. 
Numberless satiny white flowers, with golden yellow discs. 
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Hardy as grass and will grow in sun or shade. 
It is difficult to conceive anything more appropriate, beautiful and enduring for 
covering graves and plots in cemeteries than the Hardy Memorial Rose. It creeps 
along the ground almost as closely as an Ivy, growing ten feet in one season and 
forming a dense mat of very dark green, lustrous foliage, with thornless stems. The 
flowers are produced in lavish profusion, in clusters, on the ends of the short side 
branches, after the June Roses are past, from the first week in July throughout the 
month, and sparingly 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 Banksia Roses. 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, alone or 
among other Roses, and trained upright to a stake, it may be had from three to six 
feet high, as desired, and it will send sprays of flowers drooping downward, making 
the prettiest sight imaginable. It has been largely used throughout the famous park 
system of Boston for covering rocky slopes, embankments, and such places as it was 
desirable to cover quickly with yerdure. It quickly adapts itself to all conditions of 
growth, whether barren soil, rocky ledge, fertile garden, shady nook or sun-kissed 
slope, and no more fitting place can be found for it than running through the grass. 
It was in full bloom during the Christian Endeavor Conyention in Boston, and is one 
of the most pleasant memories carried away by the thousands of visitors. 
PRICES. Extra large plants, 60c. each, 2 for $1.00, 5 for $2.00, 12 for $4.50; 
smaller plants, 40c. each, 3 for $1.00, 7 for $2.00; 12 for $3.00. 
As a guide to buyers we would say that two of the extra large plants or three of the i= 
smaller size will cover a grave. Twelve plantsiof either size will cover an ordinary ; SS OP YRIGHT ZZ 
plot, but the large plants will do it more rapidly and give more flowers the first year. : PeTer HENDERSON - Co. 
