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Climbing American Beauty 



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 KOSKS — Continued. 



A real American Beauty in Climbing Form 

 — attains a height of 15 feet in a single sea- 

 son — sturdy as an oak. Our own stock on 

 its own roots, not on wild roots. Once 

 planted practically everlasting. No new 

 Rose of recent years so sensational and 

 meritorious as this, and each season adds to 

 its popularity. 



American Beauty is perhaps the best 

 known, most popular and impressive Rose 

 in cultivation. Big, gloriously rich in fra- 

 grance, the flowers are simply superb. 

 Every Rose expert has longed to produce 

 this Queen of Beauty in climbing f^jni 

 through the delicate science of h\^bridizing 

 and cross breeding. This is no ordinary 

 Climbing Rose, but is a vigorous, rampant, 

 climbing type of the real American Beauty, 

 with its gorgeous flowers and surpassing 

 fragrance. Immense blooms measuring 3 

 to 4 inches in diameter; and each one is 

 invariably produced on a separate stem. 

 The color is a glowing crimson-red, the real 

 American Beauty color. The foliage is 

 magnificent and is an important feature in 

 climbing Roses, for without healthy, leath- 

 ery foliage any climbing Rose is a failure, 

 because it is unsighth. Climbing American 

 Beauty has tough, beautiful, glossy green 

 foliage, which in itself is ornamental and 

 retains its brightness during the entire sea- 

 son. Absolutely hard}" in all localities and 

 withstands the rigid winters of a tempera- 

 ture 10 to 25 degrees below zero without 

 protection. Equally satisfactory in the 

 warmer southern climates. For single spe- 

 cimens, for pergolas, for climbing over ver- 

 andas, or an}- place that an ordinary vine 

 will grow, climbing American Beauty will 

 thrive. 



Remember, every plant is pot-grown, and 

 i unlike stock sold by nursery agents, is on 

 its own roots. Once planted, it practically 

 lasts forever. 



• Prices: Strong, one-year plants, 20c each; 

 larger size, 30c each, postpaid; strong, vig- 

 orous two-year-old plants, 50c each; still 

 larger specimen plants, 75c each, by express. 



CLARA JACQUIER— Small nankeen-yel- 

 low flowers are produced profusely in 

 large clusters like Crimson Rambler. 

 Hardy; early. 



Richmond, Michig-an, July 6, 1917. 

 Gentlemen: 



I have just measured a Charles Dingee Rose 

 in my garden and it has a circumference of 12 'i 

 inches. My CUmbinp American Beauty and 

 White American Beauty are magnificent. 

 Yours, 

 MRS. O. B. EVAX.-^. 





Climbing American Beanty as a Specimen IMant. 



^ Dorothy Perkins 



The Brilliant Pink Rambler Rose. Flowers are borne in 

 large clusters, are very double, v.ith prettily crinkled petals; 

 remarkaby pretty pointed buds, beautiful clear shell-pink in 

 color, lasting a long time without fading. The bush is per- 

 fectly hardy in all localities, a rapid and thrifty grower, bear- 

 ing its wondrous flowers in great clusters. 



*EXCELSA, Red Dorothy Perkins — New and distinct Ram- 

 bler of remarkable merit. A remarkable grower, free from 

 insects and producing a great quantity of blooms of crim- 

 son-maroon with tips of the petals scarlet. Flowers full 

 and double and thirty or forty produced on a stem. The 

 undesirable features of the Crimson Rambler, the unsightly 

 foliage, is eliminated in this Rose by the infusion of Wichu- 

 raiana blood. Hardy everywhere, and soon produces a 

 magnificent bush. An excellent varietv for hedges and 

 pergolas. 



Price of all Cllmbins: Roses on thi8 page, except v 

 two-year plants, 40c each. *4.00 per dozen, by express. 



here noted, strong, one-year plants. l.">e each. 

 Varieties marked * furnished in still larger «»r 



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any 4 for .'>()c. postpaid; 

 «pe«-inien plants, loc eacb. 



