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



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EVER-BLOOMING ROSES OF PRONOUNCED MERIT. 



-YOUNG PLANTS FROM 2HNCH DEEP ROSE POTS. 



BESSIE BROWN. A beautiful flesh-pink Rose shading to French white. 

 The buds are beautiful in the extreme and the fully expanded flowers are of 

 noble proportions, combining great depth and fulness. It is a vigorous, healthy 

 grower, very free bloomer, splendid. Price, $3.00 per 100. 



BLUMENSCHMIDT. A beautiful Tea Rose, a " sport " from Mile. Franciska 

 Kruger. It is a pure citron-yellow, outer petals edged tender rose. It is a 

 splendid bedding sort flowering abundantly and growing freely; fine stems and 

 foliage. Price, $3.00 per 100. 



CARDINAL. Color, a rich cardinal red. Is a very strong grower with a 

 superb flower. Its fragrance is very strong and sweet. The color of the flowers 

 holds good in the hottest weather. Price, $4.00 per 100. 



CLOTHILDE SOUPERT. The flowers are borne in sprays, very double and 

 handsomely formed. The outer petals are pearly white shading to a rosy pink 

 in the center. Price, $2.50 per 100. 



COL. R. S. WILLIAMSON. One of the best of the newer Roses for bedding 

 purposes. The habit is splendid, long sturdy stems bearing the fine flower erect ; 

 luxuriant foliage, dark green. The color of the flowers is satin white with a deep 

 blush center. Price, $3.00 per 100. 



C. P. STRASHEIM. A very valuable summer-blooming Tea Rose. The color 

 is a very delicate shade of primrose-yellow with a tint of fawn, the latter shade 

 being quite pronounced in the center of the flowers. As the flower ages the 

 color lightens toward the ends of the petals to a light sulphur-yellow, almost 

 white, making a charming contrast with the darker portions of the flowers. 

 Price, $2.50 per 100. 



DUCHESS OF WELLINGTON. The ground color is chrome yellow through 

 which run veins of rich orange and shadings of the same running into the rich 

 yellow. Like all high colored roses it is subject to variation but the rule is that 

 it intensifies rather than lightens in its wonderful shadings. Price, $5.00 per 100. 



ETOILE DE LYON. One of the best yellow bedding Roses for outside plant- 

 ing. Price, $3.00 per 100. 



FLORENCE PEMBERTON. Creamy white suffused pink with edges of 

 petals occasionally flushed peach; flowers large. Price, $3.00 per 100. 



GRUSS AN TEPLITZ. The color when first opening is a very dark, rich 

 crimson; as the flower opens it discloses bright scarlet, shading to velvety, 

 fiery red. Price, $3.00 per 100. 



GENERAL McARTHUR. In color, it is the brightest amongst all the Roses, 

 being a vivid crimson-scarlet. Of free-branching habit of growth; very vig- 

 orous and healthy, every shoot producing a flower; and hardy enough to with- 

 stand our severe winters. Price, $4.00 per 100. 



KAISERIN AUGUSTA VICTORIA. A hybrid Tea Rose, soft pearly-white, 

 lightly tinted with lemon in the center, just enough to relieve the white; remark- 

 ably fragrant, a strong healthy grower. Price, $3.50 per 100. 



LAURENT CARLE. It is beautiful in the bud and they expand into large 

 flowers of perfect form, just full enough to open freely, splendid for summer. 

 The color is a brilliant reddish carmine with a soft velvety finish, one of its 

 distinctive characteristics. It has a delightful fragrance. Price, $4.00 per 100. 



LA FRANCE. Peach-blossom color, shaded pink and silver-rose. The flowers 

 are large and beautiful either in the bud form or when fully expanded. Price, 

 $3.00 per 100. 



MLLE. FRANCISKA KRUGER. A favorite Rose for the garden and the most 

 satisfactory variety in its color. The coloring is strikingly handsome, a blending 

 of deep yellow with copper-yellow, pink and buff shadings. Price, $2.50 per 100. 



MME. EUGENE MARLITT. One of the best of the newer Roses for garden 

 purposes. It is exceptionally healthy, vigorous and free blooming. The flowers 

 are large, very double and full. The color is a rich, bright carmine, with reddish 

 tone and does not fade or bleach in the hottest weather. It is quite hardy and 

 delightfully fragrant. Price, $2.50 per 100. 



MRS. AARON WARD. The habit is admirable, very freely branched, 

 making a perfect shrub in form, and rustling with health. The wonderful 

 color catches the eye at once — a deep, golden-orange shading out to creamy- 

 yellow and white at the edge of the petals; the buds are cupped and very deep, 

 showing the glowing heart to the best advantage. Price, $5.00 per 100. 



MRS. B. R. CANT. The flowers are of medium size and of a beautiful deep 

 rose color on the outer petals, quite red in some cases; while the inner petals are 

 soft silvery rose, buff at the base. A healthy grower. Price, $2.50 per 100. 



MRS. DAVID JARDINE. A variety which has won quite a name already as a 

 winter-forcing Rose In the garden it stands out amongst pink Roses by reason 

 of its fine habit, splendid flowers and generally attractive appearance. The 

 color is bright rosy-pink shading to rich salmon-pink on the outer petals. Price, 

 $5.00 per 100. 



MOLLIE SHARMAN CRAWFORD. The flowers are splendid, of the largest 

 size, grandly formed. They are snow-white, and of splendid texture. It is of 

 admirable habit, fast-growing and free-branching; foliage dark and heavy 

 forming a good background for the snow-white flowers. Price, $4.00 per 100. 



MY MARYLAND. The color is soft salmon-pink which lightens up beauti- 

 fully as the flowers expand. The shade is most pleasing, surpassing all other 

 pink sorts in the eyes of many competent judges. Price, $5.00 per 100. 



NITA WELDON (TEA). Ivory white with the edges of each petal faintest 

 blush. The flowers which are produced in marvellous profusion, are of large 

 size, very full and of globular form, the buds being long and pointed. Price. 

 $8.00 per 100. 



PINK MAMAN COCHET. The buds are a beautiful pink; the color is held in 

 the open flower. The flower stems are long the buds and flowers are held erect . 

 and it is delightfully fragrant. Price, $3.00 per 100. 



RADIANCE. A seedling from CARDINAL, a brilliant rosy-carmine, dis- 

 playing beautiful, rich and opaline pink tints in the open flower; the form is 

 fine, largest size and full, with cupped petals. The bud is large, brilliant, radiant ; 

 the stems are long. Price, $3.50 per 100. 



RHEA REID. Buds long, oval and pointed, retain their form a long time. 

 Color a beautiful crimson. Price, $4.00 per 100. 



RENEE WILMART URBAN. It is a strong clean grower, fine stems and 

 foliage, flowers held well up. The color is a beautiful shade of salmon-flesh, the 

 edges of the petals bordered and tinted carmine; delightfully fragrant. Price, 

 $4.00 per 100. 



SOUVENIR DU PRESIDENT CARNOT. Flowers very large, both in the 

 bud and in the expanded blossom, double to the center and expanding beauti- 

 fully. Technically described, it is a rosy-flesh, very soft in the center, and 

 shaded with a lighter flesh at the end of the petals. Price, $3.50 per 100. 



SOUVENIR DE PIERRE NOTTING. Strong, bushy habit, with splendid 

 foliage. The color is yellow with very delicate Chinese pink and saffron-yellow 

 shadings; the center of the flower is a very rich golden-yellow. It is delightfully 

 fragrant. Price, $2.50 per 100. 



SUNBURST. A magnificent Hybrid Tea Rose of a rich orange yellow with 

 shades of coppery-yellow and golden yellow, all very intense at times. These 

 shades lighten usually towards the tips to a sulphur yellow and sometimes under 

 our hot summer sun to a white. In every stage it is a beautiful Rose. Buds long 

 and pointed, flowers splendid when open. Price, $6.00 per 100. 



WHITE MAMAN COCHET. This is the ideal, hardy white, ever-blooming 

 Rose. It is a pure white " sport " from " Maman Cochet." inheriting all its 

 fine qualities. The buds are long and pointed, opening gracefully, the expanded 

 flowers are full and firm. Price, $3.00 per 100. 



WM. R. SMITH. An American-raised pedigree seedling. It inherits hardi- 

 ness, constitution, fine habit, grand foliage and superb flowers. The color is a 

 deep ivory white overlaid with a good, bright shade of pink. As a summer 

 Rose it ranks with the best. Price, $3.00 per 100. 



VISCOUNT CARLOW (H. T.). Warm, carmine pink, stained on deep 

 cream, the stiff shell shaped petals whilst developing being distinctly edged 

 carmine; blooms medium size, very freely and continuously produced a remark- 

 ably attractive decorative rose with dark bronzy foliage and ideal habit distinct 

 and beautiful. Price, $4.00 per 100. 



POLYANTHA OR "BABY" ROSES. 



CATHERINE ZEIMET. It grows to a height of 15 to 20 inches, and pro- 

 duces double, pure white flowers in wonderful abundance. It has a fragrance 

 similar to Hyacinths. Of free, compact growth and very attractive, a sheet of 

 white and always in bloom. A great addition to the Baby Ramblers. Price, 

 $2.50 per 100. 



MME. ZELIA BOURGEOIS. Pure white, very double, sweetly scented. Very 

 free flowering. Valuable summer bedding or winter blooming. Price, $3.50 

 per 100. 



MRS. TAFT. A new Rose of the dwarf Polyantha or " Baby Rose " type. 

 It is a wonderfully brilliant red. surpassing the original red " Baby Rambler " 

 in that respect. It blooms continuously. Price, $3.00 per 100. 



ORLEANS. Brilliant geranium — red. suffused rose with white center, mak- 

 ing a charming combination; very free blooming. Decidedly the best in its 

 color. Price, $2.50 per 100. 



PHYLLIS. This makes a dense little bush, symmetrical in shape and covered 

 with beautiful cerise-pink flowers, clusters of them. As a bedding variety it 

 is splendid and if grown in pots during summer, makes a most satisfactory plant 

 for winter blooming. Price, $2.50 per 100. 



