POT-GROWN GARDEN ROSES 



FOR MID-SUMMER PLANTING. 



This is the fifth season in which we are oflfering Roses for mid-summer planting and in which we are greatly encouraged by the 

 many satisfactory reports received from customers who tried summer planting the past four years. 



By planting now you not only gain practically a full season's growth, but, if conditions are at all favoral)le, you will secure a 

 fair amount of flowers at once and during the fall, and will be laying the foundation for a grand display of flowers next spring and 

 summer. This, while it holds true on all the various types of Roses, is particularly the case with the Hybrid-Tea varieties, which, 

 on account of their remarkable free flowering qualities and comparative hardiness, have given a new impetus to Rose planting with 

 most gratifying results. The greatest efforts of the world's nno-^t noted Rose-specialists during the past quarter of a certury have 

 been devoted to this class of Rose, and the results achieved have been really wonderful. Not only is every color known in Roses 

 now represented, but there are many beautiful shades and color combinations not found in the other types. 



The plants which we supply at the present time are all strong two-year-old plants in five-inch pots in such condition that if 

 given any chance at all, will give quick and satisfactory returns. 



New Hybrid-Tea Roses of 1913, 1-914 and 1915. 



Every season the list of new Roses ofiered with glowing descriptions grows greater and greater. Necessarily many of these are 

 lacking in merit, and with this in mind it has been our custom to select from these novelties only such that we know either from 

 actual trial or from reliable information to be distinct and of superior merit; and while we occasionally miss a valuable variety by 

 this careful selection, and in spite of it also occasionally include a sort which on better acquaintance is found lacking, such 

 instances, considering the host of novelties oR^ered every season, are comparatively few. 



British Queen (McGredy, 191.S). Mr. McGredy considers 

 this one of his most imjMDrtant introductions, and in our trial 

 beds it developed .some very beautiful flowers, which in the 

 bud form are slightly tinted with pink, becoming pure white 

 when fully expanded. It is of Tea Rose form and refine- 

 ment; very free- flowering and deliciously scented. 75 cts. 

 each; $7.50 per doz. 



Edgar A'.. Burnett (McGredy, 1915). Very large, full 

 flowers of splendid form with large flesh-colored jjetals tinted 

 rose; an advance on the type of Rose of which the beautiful 

 Lady Alice Stanley is a representative; one of the sweetest- 

 scented Roses in existence. $2.50 each. 



Edith Part (.McGredy, 1914). A Rose with a novel and en- 

 tirely distinct blend of color, which is a rich red with a suffu- 

 sion of deep salmon and coppery-yellow with a deeper shad- 

 ing in the bud stage of carmine and yellow; very sweetly 

 scented. $1."J5 each. 



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General Superior Arnold Janssen (Leenders, 1913). This 

 Holland introduction, after two seasons' trial, has shown up 

 most satisfactory in our grounds; in color an effective deep 

 glowing-carmine, with long, finely-formed buds, the open 

 flowers full and sweet; a splendid long-slemmed cut flower. 

 75 cts. each; $7.50 per doz. 



George Dickson (Dickson & Sons, 1913). We give below 

 Messrs. Dickson's description of this beautiful Rose, all of 

 which we can endorse from results seen in our own trial 

 grounds. The only fault we can find is that it has not, with 

 us, the perpetual flowering habit expected in a hybrid tea 

 Rose; but the gorgeous display of deliciously fragrant flowers 

 which it furnishes during June, equalled by no other high- 

 colored variety, this one j>oint can be overlooked: "Its vig- 

 orous growth, its thick leathery foliage, bespeak rare consti- 

 tution; it produces huge blooms quite five inches across, and 

 its huge leathery shell-shaped petals have wonderful lasting 

 qualities, and are symmetrically arranged in the much-to-be-desired 

 globular type. The color is velvety black scarlet -crimson with brilliant 

 scarlet reflexed tips, with heavy and uniquely pure crimson maroon vein- 

 ing on the reverse." Awarded Gold Medal, National Rose Society of 

 England. 75 cts. each; $7.50 per doz. 



Josephine (Paul, 1915). A vigorous growing variety 

 with large, full, splendidly shaped flowers of a most 

 pleasing rosy-flesh, the base of the petals being sal- 

 mon-yellow. $2.50 each. 



Killarney Brilliant (Dickson & Sons, 1914). Prob- 

 ably no Rose ever introduced gained public favor so 

 quickly as Killarney, which to-day, after being on 

 the market for over 16 years, is still the most popular 

 Rose grown. Killarney Brilliant is a sport from the 

 original, in which we have a Rose far more intense 

 and rich in coloring, it being almost a crimson of a 

 rich glowing shade, and is also larger and more 

 double than its parent. A truly magnificent Rose. 

 $1.00 each; $12.00 per doz. 



Louise Catherine Breslau (Pemet-Ducher, 191."). 

 Buds coral-red shaded with chrome-yellow; expanded 

 flowers very large, full and globular, with large 

 heavy petals of great depth of a superb shrimp-pink 

 color, shaded with coppery-orange and chrome-yellow 

 on the reverse of the petals; a beautiful Rose. $1.00 

 each; $10.00 per doz. 



Majestic (Paul, 1915). A splendid, fine carmine- 

 rose with a long and full bud opening to a large 

 double flower; it is of strong erect habit; a fine 

 bedding variety and a most desirable cut flower. 

 $2.50 each. 



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All Roses supplied in strong two-year-old pot-grown planU. 



