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"LIBERTY" COLLECTION OF 



American Hybrid=Tea Roses 



It is with great pleasure that we offer this set of Hybrid-Tea Roses, the product of American skill and genius, a few of the 

 sorts are already well-known and their merits appreciated, the more recent introductions are very promising, and all should find a 

 place in every American garden where Roses are grown. 



General MacArthur 



(E. G. HiU, 1905) 



A well known favorite, and one of the best all-around bed- 

 ding Roses in our collection, it is one of the earliest and most 

 perpetual flowering sorts, its flowers are of good form, of a 

 . warm, rich crimson-scarlet, and delightfully scented. 60 cts. 

 each; $6.00 per doz.; $45,000 per 100. 



Hoosier Beauty 



(Dorner & Sons, 1915) 



Beautiful, well-shaped, long buds and large, full, perfect 

 flowers of an intense, rich, dazzling, crimson-scarlet and deli- 

 ciously fragrant. The plant is of vigorous growth, and is con- 

 ceded to be one of the best Roses of its color. 75 cts. each; 

 $7.50 per doz.; $60.00 per 100. 



Killarney Queen 



(Budlong. 1912) 

 A decided improvement on the popular Killarney, with larger, 

 fragrant, well-formed buds and flowers, which are absolutely 

 perfect in all stages of development; they are of a sparkling 

 cerise-pink color, shading lighter at the base of the petals, a 

 strong, vigorous grower and free bloomer. 75 cts. each; $7.50 

 per doz.; $60.00 per 100. 



Mrs. Charles Russell 



(Montgomery. 1912) 



Large, globular, well-formed, full double-flowers of a rosy- 

 carmine, with rosy-scarlet centre; it is of strong, sturdy branch- 

 ' ing habit, with splendid foliage and very free flowering; one of 

 the most popular cut- flower varieties. 75 cts. each; $7.50 per 

 doz.; $60.00 per 100. 



My Maryland 



(J. Cook. 1909) 



One of our best bedding Roses, in good condition throughout 

 the season, almost always in bloom, every shoot bearing one or 

 more flowers, which are double and of perfect form, of a bright 

 but tender salmon-pink, which lights up beautifully as the flower 

 expands; delightfully fragrant. 60 cts. each; $6.00 per doz.; 

 $+5.00 per 100. 



Radiance 



(Cook, 1909) 



An ideal bedding Rose, producing an abundance of large, 

 brilliant carmine-pink flowers, with salmon-pink and yellow 

 shadings at the base of the petals; the plant is of free, vigorous, 

 upright habit. 60 'cts. each; $6.00 per doz.; $45.00 per 100. 



We will supply one strong two-year old plant each of 

 Roses for $5.50. 



Los Angeles 



(Howard & Smith, 1917) 



Los Angeles was offered for the first time last Spring. We 

 distributed a very large number, and that our customers have 

 been pleased is demonstrated by the many complimentary letters 

 which we have received. The following typical example was 

 received from an amateur in Virginia under date of May 29th, 

 1917: 



"This Spring I ordered from you ten Los Angeles Roses, 

 and, I have not words to express my admiration for this Rose. 

 In the first place, I do not think I ever saw such Hybrid-Tea 

 bushes. The canes had been cut back and were of exceedingly 

 vigorous growth, and had the most robust growth of roots I 

 ever put in the ground. They are the admiration of every- 

 one who sees them. I could cut many of them with stems 

 nearly two feet long, and these coming from bushes planted 

 this Spring. 



" If I could have but one Rose in my garden I am prepared, 

 without any hesitation, to select the Los Angeles. I predict 

 that in two or three years it will be the best-known Rose in 

 America. I have placed my Roses alongside of the colored 

 illustration in your catalogue, and they have no apology to make 

 to your color-plate. If this Rose does so well as a bush planted 

 a little over two months, I wonder what it will do after it has 

 become thoroughly established. 



* ' I congratulate you and every lover of Roses on the intro- 

 duction of such an acquisition to the Rose family." 



The following is the originator's description, all of which we 

 fully indorse: 



"Los Angeles is, by all odds, one of the finest Roses ever 

 introduced. The growth is very vigorous, and produces a con- 

 tinuous succession of long-stemmed flowers of a luminous, 

 flame-pink, toued with coral and shaded with translucent gold at 

 the base of the petals. In richness of fragrance it equals in in- 

 tensity the finest Marechal Neil. The buds are -long and 

 pointed, and expand into a flower of mammoth proportions, 

 while the beauty of form and ever-increasing wealth of color is 

 maintained from the incipient bud until the last petal drops." 



The plants which we offer this season are the same class of 

 stock as sent out last year, being very strong two-year-old Cali- 

 fornia-grown, which will give an abundance of bloom this sea- 

 son. Price, $1.50 each. 



White Killarney 



( Waban Rose Co., 1909) 



A pure white, sport of the famous and popular Killarney Rose, 

 identical in every way with its parent, excepting in color. 60 

 cts. each; $6.00 per doz.; $45.00 per 100. 

 the " Liberty " Collection of above Eight American Hybrid-Tea 



NEW GOLDEN-YELLOW IRISH HYBRID-TEA ROSE 



GOLDEN EMBLEM (McGredy, 1918) 



(Illustrated on the plate opposite.) 



We showed this beautiful new golden-yellow Rose at the exhibition of the American Rose Society, in Philadelphia, March, 

 1917, where it attracted much attention, and was awarded the Society's Silver Medal. It has also been awarded the Gold Medal 

 of the National Rose Society of England. The following is the introducer's description: 



"A great improvement on Rayon d'Or, the color being richer and deeper, with larger and more perfect blooms. It is so 

 perpetual-flowering that as a garden and bedding Rose it is without a rival. At its best it surpasses Marechal Neil in color. Its 

 habit of growth is ideal, free and branching, with holly-like, glossy-green foliage; delightfully scented." 



We are sole distributors for the United States for 1918. Pi ice, strong two-year old imported plants, $3.00 each. 



Every Rose Garden should have one or more of the new American Rose " Los Angeles '' offered above 



