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Select Hybrid-Tea Roses 



Mrs. Wakefield Christie-Miller. As a pink bedding Rose there is 

 none better, and particularly so for massing. The flowers, which are of 

 large size, remain perfect on the bushes for a long time, and are produced 

 verj- freely; they are of a bright pink color with lighter 

 shadings, the plant is \'igorous and free. 



Mrs. William C. Egan. Described and offered on pages 

 128 and 129. S1.50 each. 



Old Gold. Beautiful in bud form, a vivid orange-red with cop- 

 perj^-apricot shadings; delightfully fragrant. $1.50 each. 



Ophelia. A variety which has made such a record for itself 

 that qualifies it to be classed \\ith the very best, a Rose that 

 isadmiredby every one; its flowers are held erect on long stiff 

 stems, are of perfect form, good size, and of a most pleasing 

 deHcate tint of salmon-flesh, shaded with rose, very florif erous. 



Pharisaer. Exceptionally free flowering, producing long 

 buds, which open into large, double flowers of a rosy white, 

 shading to a pretty soft salmon. A fine garden Rose that 

 never disappoints in quality or in quantity. 



Premier. A new variety that has gained great popularity as a forcing 

 sort and which promises equally good as a bedding Rose. In color 

 it is a pleasing shade of pure rose- pink with flowers of good size and form. 



Prince de Bulgarie. Large full double flowers of capital form which 

 are produced abundantly throughout the season; a good reliable bedder 

 of a silvery flesh color, deepening to the centre vrith delicate salmon- 

 rose shadings, a soft pleasing color. 



Queen of Fragrance. Flowers large, double and of elegant graceful 

 shape and freely produced throughout the season. The color is a beau- 

 tiful shell-pink, tipped with silver, bright and pleasing. An outstanding 

 quality of this beautiful Rose is its powerful and delicious fragrance, 

 which won for it the Clay Challenge Cup (value S375.00) at the show of 

 the Ro3'al Horticultural Society of England, as well as a Certificate of 

 Merit from the National Rose Society. 



Hybrid-Tea Rose, Mrs. Aaron Ward 

 (Offered on page 125) 



Hybrid-Tea Rose 

 Queen of Fragrance 



Radiance. An ideal bedding Rose of American origin that continues to 

 produce its large flowers throughout the most unfavorable hot sum- 

 mer weather when frequently many other varieties fail; in color a 

 brilliant carmine-pink, with salmon-pink and yellow shadings at the 

 base of the petals; truly a Rose for every garden. 

 Red Radiance. Described and offered on page 129. 

 Robert Huey. A warm carmine cherry -red edged with deHcate pink, 



very free flowering, and particularly good in the autumn; fragrant. 

 Rose Marie. This wonderful Rose is described and offered on page 129. 

 Souvenir de Claudius Pernet. The new yellow Rose that promises 

 to become what has long been wanted, a hardj' ever-blooming real yellow 

 Rose is shown in colors, described and offered on page 128. One-year- 

 old plants, 82. .SO each. Two-year-old plants, S3. 50 each. 

 Souvenir de Georges Pernet. This grand new Rose is illus- 

 trated in colors, described and offered on page 128. One-year- 

 old plants, S3. 00 each. Two-year-old plants, S5.00 each. 

 White Killarney. A pure white sport of the famous and 

 popular Killarney Rose, idenrical in every way with its parent, 

 excepting in color. 

 William F. Dreer. This beautiful new Rose is shown in colors, 



and described and offered on pages 128 and 129. SI. 50 each. 

 Willowmere. This splendid Rose is of a coral-red color, suffused 

 with carmine in the bud state, and opens to a large, full, hand- 

 some flower of a rich shrimp-pink, shaded yellow in the centre 

 and flushed carmine-pink towards the edges of the petals. 

 Price. Strong two-year-old plants of any of the above, 

 except where noted, $1.00 each; $12.00 per doz.; 

 $90.00 per 100. 25 or more supplied at 100 rate. 



Special offer of 

 HYBRID-TEA ROSES 



We will supply a strong two-year-old plant each of our collection of 84 

 Hybrid-Tea Roses, offered on pages 122 to 126 and pages 128 and 129. 

 A magnificent collection for S85.00. 



