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Hardy Everblooming Tea Roses 
Tea Roses form the foundation of nearly all the great Roses of today. Without them, the lovely Hybrid 
Tea class would be impossible. They are among the oldest and most highly cherished of°all Roses. They 
have made the Rose-gardens of America what they are. Their place and value is everlasting. Rugged 
healthy and hardy in growth, free blooming (they bloom all the time), their flowers are chaste and beauti- 
ful. You cannot well do without them. They thrive gloriously in all sections of the country. 
Their ease of propagation has, unfortunately, caused them to be produced by some growers in enormous 
quantities to meet a certain. demand for “Cheap Roses,’ and these so-called cheap Roses have brought un- 
told disappointment to all who have planted them; and have discredited the business of every first-class 
Rose dealer. Don’t be misled into buying the cheap, ‘‘one-eyed,”’ “thumb-pot’”’ ‘Rose plants made to sell at 
popular prices. Plant good Roses, grown by a firm with a reputation to sustain. Pay a fair price for first- 
class goods, with a guarantee back of them—the West Grove kind—and you will soon become a Rose enthu- 
siast. Ours is the greatest collection of own-root Roses in the world. This collection of hardy, everbloom- 
ing Tea Roses is the very life of our immense list. To the beginner—the novice in Rose culture—the great 
number of varieties may be confusing, but to eliminate a single one, however, would do a distinct injustice 
to the introducer and to our collection, for each variety has its own particular charm and merit. If you 
find it difficult to make a choice, leave the selection to us. 
B = P ~ One-year first size plants, 12%c each; 3 for 35c, postpaid. Two-year-old plants, 33c 
argain rice each; 6 for $1.75, by express. Varieties marked * furnished in large specimen plants at 
75¢ each, by express. 
“The Bride “Bridesmaid 
There is no other white Rose more satisfactory This variety is valuable for cutting and does finely 
than The Bride. When planted in the open ground, in the open ground; a sport from the old and popu- 
the flowers are sometimes found to be delicately lar pink Tea, Catherine Mermet, but of a fine, clear, 
tinted with pink, making it exceedingly attractive. dark pink, much deeper and more constant in color 
The buds and flowers are unusually large, well-formed than Mermet. 
ote ey perfumed. *DUCHESS DE BRABANT — A very vigorous and 
*BLUMENSCHMIDT—A splendid bedding Rose of healthy variety, producing large blossoms which 
the Cochet type, glowing all summer with its wealth are beautiful in buds or open flower. The color is 
of citron-yellow flowers, each petal of which is a fine shade of soft, rosy pink, which deepens to 
edged with dainty rose. The individual flowers are bright rose. A special favorite. 
large and well-formed, resembling in many ways *COQUETTE DE LYON—This is one of the best yel- 
some of the handsomest Tea Roses. low Tea Roses for open-ground culture. The 
BOUGERE—tThis is a fine variety for open-ground flowers are extra large, deep and double: color 
culture. Large, full and double flowers supported pure canary-yellow. Unlike other yellow Roses, 
on long, stiff stems and produced in great abun- it is a strong, vigorous grower. 
dance all through the growing season; color bronze- THE QUEEN — Of vigorous and healthy growth, 
rose-or violet-crimson, shaded with lilac. sweetly scented. A°constant bloomer, producing 
BURBANK—A rival of Champion of the World, bear- profuse crops of buds and flowers; the buds are 
ing a great profusion of large crimson flowers; very | well-shaped, with large petals of best substance. 
fragrant. White. 
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