PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— WHOLESALE CATALOGUE.— PLANTS. 7 



'HE CRIMSON RAMBLER Qf>cp ^ 



. . . Shows a plant the first year after planting. 



THE CRIMSON RAflBLER 



magnificent Pyramidal Clusters or Ricn Crimson Roses. 



EVERY CLUSTER A PERFECT BOUQUET OF ROSES IN ITSELF. 

 This grand Rose, which we illustrated with a colored plate last year, improves 

 upon acquaintance; the better it becomes known the more popular it becomes. We 

 have occasionally to modify opinions formed of the value of new Roses, but the 

 " Crimson Rambler" is one that we offer to our customers, after a two years' trial, 

 with greater confidence in its 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. It is adapted to the entire country, and should be 

 in everj' garden in America. {See cut.) 



THE PRIZES IT WON. 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 they said 

 that the ordinary premiums reserved for new Roses of the highest grade 

 were 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 International Exposition awarded Gold Medals to " Crimson 

 Rambler." 



ITS GROWTH. 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 measur- 

 ing nine inches from base to tip, and seven inches across, fairly cov- 

 ering the plant from the ground to the top, so that it is one mass of 

 glowing 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 marvelous, over three hundred 

 blooms having been counted on one shoot. 



AS A POT PLANT. It is essentially a garden Rose, but makes 

 a magnificent specimen in a pot or tub. There was exhibited in Boston, 

 last spring, a plant of the "Crimson Rambler" growing in a twelve- 

 inch pot, the plant being about four feet high and three feet wide, 

 bearing nearly five thousands buds and flowers ; it was grown by 

 Mr. Jackson Dawson from a plant furnished by us. 



Price, 2 year old plants from 6 inch pots, $4.00 

 per doz.; 1 year plants from 4 inch pots, $2.50 

 per doz., $18.00 per 100; strong plants from 3 inch 

 pots, $1.25 per doz., $10.00 per 100; plants from 2 

 inch pots, 75c. per doz., $6.00 per 100. Three or 

 more sold at the dozeti rate. 



The White Rambler ( thalia., 



The advent of the Crimson Rambler and the 

 wonderful and well-deserved popularityof itproved 

 a very great incentive to hybridizers, and the result 

 is that we now have other colors in this grand class. 

 The variety Thalia (the white Rambler) is a fit- 

 ting Companion for the Crimson Rambler, closely 

 resembling it in vine and foliage as well as in the 

 great clusters of pure white flowers, which are de- 

 liriously fragrant. The flowers remain on the 

 plant a long time — from three to five weeks— and 

 keep a long time when cut. The plant is perfectly 

 hardy, equal in this respect to the Crimson Ram- 

 bler and where one is planted the other should 

 be also. By growing this in a pot and training it 

 to a pyramidal trellis, a fine plant may be had in 

 bloom for Easter. Price, strong plants from 3 inch 

 pots, $1.50 per doz., $12.00 per 100. 



The Pink Rambler ,euphrosyne.» 



This beautiful variety is fit to rank with the two 

 above mentioned. It is from the same source as 

 the White Rambler, fully theequal of both in hardi- 

 ness, vigor, size and profusion of flowers and bloom- 

 ing qualities. The color is a beautiful, lustrous 

 rosy pink, beautiful also in the bud state. Good 

 hardy climbing Roses are always in demand, and 

 these are sure to give satisfaction. Price, strong 

 plants from 3 in. pots, $1.50 doz., $12.00 per 100. 



The Yellow Rambler (aolaiaj 



Equal to the above varieties in every particular, 

 color bright yellow. Price, strong plants from 

 3 inch pots, $1.50 per doz., $12.00 per 100. 



This illustration 

 was made from the 

 photogpaph of a 

 plant growing on 

 the estate of Mr. 

 Louis B. McCagg, 

 Newport, R. I., 

 taken July, 1 



The plant was 

 set out in May, 

 1895, and was fur- 

 nished bv us. 

 About 18 inches 

 high when planted; 

 when the photo- 

 graph was taken 

 it was 



fifteen feet high 



and 

 six feet vide, 



with thousands of 

 flowers. 



