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PET ER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— WHOLESALE CATALOGUE— PLANTS. 



Zbc accompanying illustrations 

 show some of tbe varico uses of 



mEmORIflL 

 ROSE. 



(Rosa Wichuraiana rubra.) 



The great value of the " Memorial Rose" has been fully demon- 

 strated and more than justifies our confidence in its utility for the 

 purposes we recommended it. Many seedlings have been raised 

 from it, but none had the true creeping habit of the parent; they 

 were all more or less semi-climbling. In this new variety, however, 

 the habit andfi liageof the white " Memorial Hose" are reproduced, 

 but the flowers are a brilliant carmine-red. They are as 

 large as the white variety, of lustrous texture, deliciously frag- 

 rant. It makes a charming contrast with the white variety. It 

 can be grown the same as it— in fact, is a perfect companion for 

 it. This fine new variety will become equally popular with the 

 white, and we confidently recommend it as a novelty of pro- 

 nounced merit. Price, from 3-inch pots $2.00 per doz., $15.00 per 

 100. 



ASSORTED " WICHURAIANA HYBRIDS/' 



E /ER3REEN GEM. Flowers double, yellow, buff in bud, 



opening to almost white, two or three inches in diameter. 

 GARDENIA.. Buds bright yellow, open flowers cream color, 



and three to three and one-half inches in diameter. 

 JER8EY BEAUTY. Flowers single, three inches in diameter, 



pale yellow, covering the plant entirely; very fragrant 

 PINK ROAMER. The flowers are single, over two inches in 



diameter, a bright, rich pink, with a large, silvery-white centre. 

 SOUTH OR ANGB PERFECTION. Double flowers, soft blush 



changing to white, about one and one-half inches in diameter. 

 TRIUMPH. This may well be called the Double " Memorial 



Rote'" in growth and foliage; flowers double and very fragrant. 

 UNIVERSAL FAVORITE. A fitting companion to the 



double white " Memorial Rose"; identical in growth, double 



flowers one and one-half to two inches in diameter, of a soft, 



light pink. 



Price, strong young plants, from 3-inch pots, 75c. per doz., 

 $6.00 per 100. 



memorial" 



. . . (IRoea . . . 

 f Micburaiana.) 



for USe ilX Cemeteries.— It is difficult to conceive any- 

 thing more appropriate, beautiful and enduring for covering 

 graves and plots in cemeteries than the Hardy Memorial Rose. 

 It creeps along the ground almost as closely as an Ivy, growing 

 ten feet in one season and forming a dense mat of very dark 

 green, lustrous foliage. 



XLbC jflOWers are produced in lavish profusion, in clusters, 

 on the ends of the short side branches, after the June Roses are 

 past, from the first week in July throughout the month, and spar- 

 ingly for the rest of the season. They arc single, pure white, with 

 a golden yellow disc, five to six inches in circumference, and have 

 the strong fragrance of the Ranksia Roses. The contrast between 

 the satiny white of the petals and the golden yellow disc is sharp 

 and pleasing, and is one of the distinctive charms of the beautiful 

 Hardy Memorial Rose, and they fairly cover the entire plant 

 when in bloom, a mass of great snowflakes with the rich, dark 

 green showing here and there. 



JBut its use is not confineo to Cemeteries.— Planted in the 



Rose garden, alone or among other Roses, and trained upright to 

 a stake, it may be had from three to six feet high as desired, 

 and it will send spiays of flowers drooping downward, making the 

 prettiest sight imaginable. Trained over a gateway it forms a 

 perfect bower, or it can be trained to a fence or house with equal 

 success. As a pot plant it is unique and beautiful; in short, it is 

 the most useful and un ique of all Roses It has been largely used 

 throughout the famous park system of Boston for covering rocky 

 slopes, embankments and such places as it was desirable to cover 

 quickly with verdure. It quickly adapts itselt to all conditions of 

 growth, whether barren soil, rocky ledge, fertile garden, shady 

 nook or sun-kissed slope, and no more fitting place can be found 

 for it than running through the grass. 



Price, strong plants from 5-inch pots $3.00 per doz., $20.00 per 

 100; from 4-inch pots $16.00 per 100, young plants $6.00 per too. 



