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Peter Henderson & Co., New York.— Plant Department. 





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HARDY 



* M emorial fioge 



Creeps on the ground like Ivy j dark green leaves. 



Numberless satiny white flowers, with golden 

 yellow discs. 



Hardy as grass and will grow in sun or shade. 



(Rosa Wichuraiana). 



SIT is difficult to conceive anything more appropriate, beautiful and enduring for covering 

 Cj graves and plots in cemeteries than the Hardy Memorial Rose. It creeps along the 

 < V ground almost as closely as an Ivy, growing ten feet in one season and forming a dense 

 mat of very dark green, lustrous foliage, with thornless stems. The flowers are produced in 

 lavish profusion, in clusters, on the ends of the short side branches, after the June Roses are 

 past, from the first week in July throughout the month, and sparingly for the rest of the season. 

 They are single, pure white, with a golden yellow disc, five to six inches in circumference, and 

 have the strong fragrance of the Banksia Eoses. The contrast between the satiny white of the 

 petals and the golden yellow disc is sharp and pleasing, and is one of the distinctive charms of 

 the beautiful Hardy Memorial Hose, and they fairly cover the entire plant when in bloom, 

 a mass of great snowflakes with the rich, dark green showing here and there. 



But its iise is not confined to cemeteries. Planted in the Rose garden, alone or among other 

 Roses, and trained upright to a stake, it may be had from three to six feet high, as desired, and 

 it will send sprays of flowers drooping downward, making the prettiest sight imaginable. It 

 bas been largely used throughout the famous park system of Boston for covering rocky slopes, 

 embankments, and STieh places as it was desirable to cover quickly with verdure. It quickly 

 -adapts itself to all conditions of growth, whether barren soil, rocky ledge, fertile garden, shady 

 nook or sun-kissed slope, and no more fitting place can be found for it than running through 

 the grass. It was in full bloom during the Christian Endeavor Convention in Boston, and is 

 ■one of the most pleasant memories carried away by the thousands of visitors. 



PRICES. Extra large plants, fine. each. 2 for $1.00, 5 for $2.00, 12 for $4.50 ; smaller plants, 

 40c. each, 3 for $1.00, 7 for $2.00, 12 for $3.00. 



As a guide to buyers we would say that two of the extra large plants or three of the smaller 

 size will cover a grave. Twelve plants of either size will cover an ordinary plot, but the large 

 plants will do it more rapidly and give more flowers the first year. 



f HE NEW HARDY CLIMBING ROS E, 



" C rimson R ambler." - ■ - 



Shown on COLORED PLATE in our Manual of EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN. 



' CRIMSON BAMBLEE." GROWN IN BUSH FORM TN A POT. 



Magnificent Trusses of Rich Crimson Flowers. 

 Measuring Nine Inches from Base to Tip. . 

 Three Hundred Blooms on One Shoot. . . 



fj!P HE new hardy Japanese climbing Rose, "Crimson Rambler," is one that 

 1\9 we offer to our customers, after a year's trial, with greater confidence in its 

 ■"S^ merits. It came to this country heralded as a wonder among flowers, but the 

 most extravagant praises yet bestowed on it fall short of doing it ample justice. The 

 judges at one of the principal flower shows in England, when awarding it a Gold 

 Medal, the highest honor they could bestow, epitomized the views of all who had 

 seen it when thev said that the ordinary premiums reserved for new Roses of the 

 highest grade we're entirely inadequate to indicate the merits of the "Crimson 

 Rambler." At every exhibition throughout Great Britain where it was shown 

 it received the highest honors, and this opinion was endorsed. The National Rose 

 Society of England, the National Horticultural Society of France and the Inter- 

 national Exposition awarded Gold Medals to " Crimson Rambler." 



It is of rapid, vigorous growth ; plants in our grounds attained a height of fifteen 

 feet the past season. The flowers are produced in trusses, pyramidal in shape, good 

 specimens measuring nine inches frombaseto tip, and seven inches across, 

 fairly covering the plant from the ground to the top, so that it is one nmsri of glow- 

 ing crimson. The color is superb, and remains strong and vivid to the end ; plants 

 in our grounds retained the bloom for two months. The profusion of bloom is 

 marvelotis. A correspondent of the London Garden stated that on one snoot he 

 counted over three hundred blooms. It is adapted to the entire country, and 

 should be in every garden in America. It is essentially a garden rose, but makes 

 a magnificent specimen in a pot or tub. (See cut.) 



PRICES. Extra large plants, $1.50 each; 1st size plants, $1.00 each. $9.00 per 

 doz. ; 2d size, 75c. each, $7.50 per doz. ; 3d size, strong young plants from 3-inch pots, 

 31c. each, $3.00 per doz.; strong plants from 2-inch pots, 20c. each, $2.00 per doz. 

 Three or more sold at the rate per dozen. 



