Popular Hardy Climbing Roses 
Hardy Climbing Roses have the popular call. They have become an absolute necessity for beautifying 
‘the home, for training over porches, verandas, trellises and pergolas, and they make the most beautiful 
flowering hedges when trained on low supports. Also when grown as individual specimen plants, as they 
ston form a beautiful» bush more ornamental than many hardy shrubs. They can be kept trimmed into 
any shape or height desired, and thus make a large, handsome bush Rose. No other concern offers such 
a complete list of Climbing Roses as we, including, as it does, all the new kinds; as well as the old tried 
and true favorites which may be found spreading their beauty all over our fair land. 
All the Climbing Roses in our unequalled list are On their own roots—a most vital point in a Climbin 
Rose. Some are absolutely hardy in the coldest parts of the country, while others growing luxuriantl 
in the Middle and Southern: Eon require some slight protection in the North. 
* A Thousand Beauties “Dorothy Perkins 
(German Tausendschoen) The Brilliant Pink Rambler Rose. Flowers are 
borne in large clusters; are very double, with prettily 
The most sensational Climbing Rose yet intro- | crinkled petals; remarkably pretty pointed buds, 
duced, not even barring Crimson Rambler. A single | beautiful clear shell-pink in color, lasting a long 
cluster is a bouquet in itself, hence the very fitting | time without fading. The bush is perfectly hardy 
name, “Thousand Beauties.” _Blooming profusely in all localities, a rapid and thrifty grower, bearing 
from the beginning of June until the last of July, | its wondrous flowers in great clusters. 
the flowers appear in clusters (10 to 15 in cluster) | *EXCELSA—A new and distinctive Rambler of re- 
of splendid size and quite double. The colors run markable merit. A remarkable grower, free from 
from delicate balsam to tender rose through the insects and producing a great quantity of blooms 
intermediate shades of bright rose and carmine, with of crimson maroon with the tips of the petals 
white, yellow and various other indescribable tints searlet. Flowers full and double and thirty or 
showing. There is no other Rose in cultivation like forty produced on a stem. The undesirable fea- 
it. It is a strong grower, with but few thorns, mag- tures of the Crimson Rambler, the unsightly foli- 
nificent foliage, impervious against mildew and abso- age, is eliminated by the infusion of Wichuraiana 
lutely hardy in the open ground everywhere. The blood. Hardy everywhere, and soon produces a 
most remarkable Rose of its kind in the world, and magnificent bush. Will growin any situation. An 
has been awarded numerous mega) excellent variety for hedges and pergolas. 
*DR. W. VAN FLEET—\Flowers when open run four inches 
and over in diameter. The center is built high, petals 
beautifully undulated and cupped. The color is a remark- 
able delicate shade of flesh-pink on the outer surface, deep- 
ening to rosy-flesh in the center. The flowers are full and 
double, of delicate perfume; buds pointed. It very much 
res¢mbles Souv. de Pres. Carnot-in color. Strong, rapid 
grower. Immune from insects and disease. Foliage deep 
green the entire growing season. 
*WHITE DOROTHY—It is a rampant grower and in a short 
time will cover a larse trellis with its long, sturdy canes 
clothed with brilliant green, shining foliage of splendid 
texture and free from mildew or attacks of insects. The 
flowers are of a brilliant glistening white and are borne 
in great trusses, completely covering the plant, until it 
resembles a snowdrift. 
BIRDIE: BLYE—Buds long and pointed. Color bright car- 
mine, changing to bright satiny rose as they open. Blooms 
produced at the end of every shoot in clusters. 
*CHRISTINE WRIGHT — Large, thick, leathery foliage. 
Flowers 4 inches in diameter. Color bright, clear oe 
almost double; borne in large clusters. 
*GAINSBOROUGH—Delicately tinted flesh, almost white and 
lustrous as satin. An admirer compared the flower to a 
beautiful girl wearing a Gainsborough hat ornamented with 
white ostrich plumes; hence the name. 
*VEILCHENBLAU, or VIOLET BLUE (Blue Rose) — The 
Blue Rose is one of the: most rampant growers we have 
ever seen, covering a large porch in a single season. The 
flowers are borne in loose, clusters and are of a delightful 
shade of blue—something entirely different from any Rose 
in cultivation. 
3 B ARG AIN PRICES One-year first size plants, 1214c each; 3 for 
———_————=_——__—_—__—= oC, postpaid. Two-year-old plants, 23c 
ae mes each; 6 for $1.75, by express. Varieties marked * furnished 
Thousand Beauty. in large specimen plants, 75c each, by express. 
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