HARDY CLIMBING ROSES— 

 Continued. 



Birdie Bly 



One of the freest blooming hardy 

 Climbers that we know of today. 

 Bushes here bloom five or six times 

 each season. Perfectly hardy ev- 

 erywhere. Good strong grower. 

 Foliage bright glossy green and 

 free from insects or disease. Blooms 

 full and double as per illustration, 

 and over three inches in diameter. 

 Color a bright carmine, changing to 

 bright satiny rose. Very fragrant. 



*DR. W. VAN FLEET— Flowers 

 when open run four inches and 

 over in diameter. The center is 

 built high, petals beautifully undulated and cupped 

 color is a remarkable shade of flesh-pink on the outer ( 

 surface, deepening to rosy-flesh in the center. The ' 

 flowers are full and double, of delicate perfume 

 pointed. It very much resembles Souv. de Pres. Carnot 

 in color. Strong, rapid grower. Immune from insects 

 and disease. Foliage deep green the entire season. 



SOURCE D'OR— A golden yellow with large double 

 flowers. Strong rank grower. Absolutely hardy. 



MINNEHAHA — A charming double satiny pink-flowering Rambler of 

 a most pleasing color. Flowers are borne in clusters; foliage glossy 

 green. 



*LADY GODIVA — A magnificent white sport from Dorothy Perkins, 

 with flowers growing in splendid clusters and of remarkably vigorous 

 growth and handsome foliage. Dark green foliage and free from ravages 

 of insects or disease. 



GOLDFINCH — A new, hardy climbing Rose which will shortly become 

 one of the leaders. It is of the Rambler type and bears a wondrous pro- 

 fusion of lemon-yellow, semi-double flowers in large trusses. The buds 

 are beautiful deep yellow. Hardy and everblooming. 



The Rambler Roses 



This great family of Climbing Roses has become 

 so well and favorably known that we do not con- 

 sider extended description necessary. The various 

 Rambler Roses are absolutely essential to the mod- 

 ern Rose garden. All these Rambler Roses are 

 hardy throughout the country, and our own root 

 stock once planted becomes permanent. 



PHILADELPHIA CRIMSON RAMBLER— This 



now famous variety dijffers from the old Crimson 

 Rambler in having brighter, deeper and more in- 

 tense crimson color. Earlier than the Crimson 

 Rambler and entirely free from mildew. Flowers 

 perfectly double and of excellent substance. 



*CRIMSON RAMBLER (The Rose of the Masses) 



— One-year plants will attain a height of 10 to 20 

 feet in a single season, and the second year they 

 will continue to produce a marvelous profusion of 



rich and glowing crimson flowers in large clusters. 

 It presents a vivid crimson mass of beauty when in 

 full bloom, during June and July. It is absolutely 

 hardy everywhere. 



YELLOW RAMBLER (Aglaia)— Flowers are deep 

 golden yellow and very fragrant. 



WHITE RAMBLER (Thalia)— Flowers pure white, 

 sometimes tinted with blush. 



PINK RAMBLER— Large trusses of brilliant car- 

 mine flowers. Very popular. 



*FLOWER OF FAIRFIELD— A rampant climber, 

 it bears enormous clusters of brilliant crimson 

 flowers. 



Prices of all Roses on this page, except where noted, first 

 size plants, 25c each; 5 for $1.00, postpaid; two-year-old 

 plants, 75c each, by express; $7.50 per dozen, or 85c each by 

 parcel post prepaid with soil on roots. Varie'.ies marked * 

 furnished in large specimen or star size, $1.25 each. 



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