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Crimson Rambler — The wonderful Japanese Rose, by far the most important and valuable acquisition of 

 recent years. The Crimson Rambler is unquestionably an acquisition, a novelty of high order, 

 and most distinct in its characteristics. It is a running or climbing rose of vigorous habit, 

 strong and rapid growth, with handsome shining foliage, and produces in marvelous abundance 

 clusters of the brightest crimson semi-double roses. Its clustered form, its brilliancy, the 

 abundance of its bloom, and the great length of time the flowers remain on the plant without 

 falling or losing their brilliancy, are qualities which will make this new claimant for admiration 

 an assured favorite. For verandas, walls, pillars, and fences it is a most suitable plant. If 

 grown in beds and pegged down, it produces marvelous heads of bloom, or it can be grown in 

 bush form and thus become a most striking object. We planted this rose out of doors, along 

 with Hybrid Perpetuals and other hardy roses, and the plants came through the winter even 

 better than many of the hardy varieties, remaining fresh and green to the very tips. But it is 

 not only for out-door use that it is valuable ; it can also be employed most satisfactorily for 

 decorating in-doors when grown in pots, and for forcing at Easter time when pot-grown speci- 

 mens bring high prices. We are satisfied that this is the greatest rose novelty of recent years. 

 35 cents. 



Pink Rambler — {Etiphrosyne) — Flowers medium size, pink, in clusters, very pretty. 35 cts. 



White Rambler — {Thalia) — Small or medium, daisy-like, pretty white flowers in large clusters ; fragrant, 

 very ornamental. 35 cts. 



Yellow Rambler— (^^/a/a) — Flowers two to two and a half inches in diameter, in clusters of six to ten. 

 Yellow in bud, but white when fully open ; when half open the flowers are tinged with yellow, 

 slightly fragrant. Plant vigorous and free-blooming ; hardy, very pretty and desirable. 35 cts. 



THE FOUR RAMBLERS. 



From the Rural New Yorker, July 1, 1899. 



It is rarely the case that a new plant of any kind is not over-praised when introduced. 

 The originator over-praises it (we may pardon him, perhaps), and those who purchase and 

 introduce the novelty over-praise it, often knowingly and without the least regard to its real 

 merits. It rarely, very rarely, occurs that it is just about impossible to over-praise a newcomer. Such 

 a newcomer is the Crimson Rambler Rose. It is all that has been said of it, and we may now add 

 another merit, that of exceeding hardiness. At the Rural Grounds, it would be fair to say that the 

 plants were not harmed by the past winter, next to the severest known to the writer. Our oldest plant 

 now covers a trellis about six feet high and ten feet long, and, in a few days, it will be almost a solid 

 mass of crimson flowers borne in pyramidal panicles of from twenty-five to seventy-five or even more. 

 There is a peculiarity of these little beauties, perhaps not noted before. The roses are at first a bright 

 crimson ; then, instead of changing to a washed-out, tawdry color, they change to a bright pink, so 

 that the plants are well divided between pink and crimson flowers. 



We have said about all that could reasonably be said in praise of this rose in past volumes, and it 

 is not our purpose to speak of it at length now except to compare it with its three sisters, the White, 

 Pink, and Yellow Ramblers. If we could have but one, it would be the eldest sister, the Crimson; but 

 having seen them all, we want the quartette. Could we have but three, we would omit the Pink, 

 because it is not a decided pink, and soon fades to a white, not so pure as that of the White Rambler. 

 The Yellow, too, is yellow only in the bud, or partly opened bud. The catalogues tell us that these 

 roses will withstand a temperature of two degrees below zero. Over twenty degrees below zero failed 

 to materially harm the Rural set. 



The foliage of all four is much the same, the habit is much the same. There are two important 

 distinctions, however. The Crimson Rambler has no odor, the others have, and, second, the Crimson 

 does not begin to bloom until the others have ceased to bloom. Thus, the Crimson began to bloom this 

 season June loth, a few days earlier than usual because of the scorching drought. The others began to 

 bloom June ist. The catalogue name of the Pink Rambler'is Euphrosyne; that of the White, Thalia; 

 that of the Yellow, Aglaia. 



