trial before offering it to our patrons. We shall have them all for 

 sale, but two seasons of trial must elapse before our endorsement 

 of a new rose will be published. 



We guarantee absolutely that the roses which we offer and en- 

 dorse in this catalogue have undergone this two year's trial and 

 have proved with us all that we claim for them. 



This year we are testing all the teas and hybrid teas of 1890 

 under glass, and the trial will be continued during another season 

 under our established rule. 



THE SNOWFLAKE. 



OUR NOVELTY FOR THIS YEAR is a lovely white rose, a pure 

 tea but a foreign seedling, the freest flowering white rose we have 

 seen. It will be especially useful in set designs. For a pot plant 

 it cannot be excelled, as it possesses every good quality of a pot rose. 

 We counted on one plant 143 buds and flowers in a single day, and 

 the plant was only nine months old. It can be used in place of 

 white carnations for set pieces at an immense saving, because it can 

 be bloomed profitably at one dollar per 100 buds. Not only will 

 it cover twice and three times the space, in a funeral design for 

 instance, that a carnation covers but it will give greatly superior 

 results. TRY IT. We have fixed the price low so that the cost 

 of the experiment will be nominal. 



Every grower who retails his own flowers will get a prize in this 

 rose. 



We offer 5 Plants of this Novelty as a present to purchasers oi 

 500 plants of any of the varieties enumerated in our catalogue. 



FOR PRICES SEE PAGE 16 



