SINGLE-FLOWERED HARDY CLIMBING ROSES 



Blooms of Evangeline 



Another division of hardy climbing Roses not referred to 

 on page 60 are those that produce the single-flowered 

 Roses. In these you'll find that the jewelled heart of a Rose 

 with its golden aura of stamens gleams like a gem set in a 

 circle of petals. Simple indeed they seem but powerfully 

 impressive when, multiphed by the thousand, they "ride on 

 dress parade" as it were. 



Why it should be so, that the single flowered Roses are 

 so popular is hard to say, unless partly because perhaps, 

 hke the eyes of a portrait, the eyes of the single Roses seem 

 to follow you round the garden. If they're not there already, 

 we can promise you that they soon will win a place in your 

 aff"ection. 



*EVANGELINE. (See illustration.) Color arrangement difficult to describe, 

 but daintily effective. The white petals are marked on the tips with delicate 

 pink, and sometimes upcurve. $1 each. 



*HIA"WATHA. Immense clusters of single flowers of intense deep crimson, 

 shading to pure white at the base of the petals. $1 each. 



*WICHURAIANA. Particularly useful as a ground-cover on embankments 



or elsewhere, as it naturally grows close to the ground and roots where the 



branches touch. Its flowers are of medium size, single, white, and borne amid 



very beautiful glossy green fohage, in itself attractive the whole season. $1 each. 



*MAX GRAF. (See description. on page 49.) 



(See color illustration on opposite page.) In 

 England the National Rose Society recently 



*American Pillar. 



voted this their most popular Climbing Rose; in America that is usually the 

 verdict as fast as American Pillar becomes known. We are naturally proud 

 to have introduced it, twenty-two years ago, as the product of the late greatest 

 American Rose hybridizer, Dr. W. Van Fleet. In early June the tremendously 

 vigorous canes of this rampantly prosperous Rose plant, already carrying rich 

 foliage, become covered with single flowers about 2 inches across, in shadings 

 of carmine and rosy pink to white in the center, where they meet a cluster of 

 long golden yellow stamens. The delicately 

 fragrant blooms become lighter in tint as the 

 days go by, and as they open successively in 

 very large and symmetrical clusters all 

 over the plant, the eff'ect is wonderful. 

 Sometimes as many as three thousand 

 flowers have been noted on one young 

 bush. American Pillar can be grown as a 

 pillar Rose, if one is hard-hearted enough 

 to cut off" its beautiful growth, or it will 

 climb, it will sprawl, it will make a won- 

 derful bush, or planted 18 inches apart it 

 will make a glorious hedge. (See illustration.) 

 No other Rose takes its place in any way. 

 $1 each, 25 for $20. 



^J^OSES: $1 each; lo for $<f.oo; $8o.oo per loo 



25 or more at 100 rate. For delivery cost, see page 98 



Tie Conard-Tyle (p. 



ROBT. PYLE, Pres. 



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