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POLYANTHA OR BABY ROSES 



A type of Roses which is very popular for bedding purposes, forming shapely, 

 compact bushy specimens about 18 inches high, producing in great profusion from 

 early in the season until severe frost, immense trusses of small flowers. 

 Cecile Brunner (The Fairy, or Sweetheart Rose). A variety with dainty double 

 little moderately-fragrant flowers of perfect form produced in many flowered 

 graceful sprays; color a soft rosy-pink on a rich creamy-white ground. 

 Dainty. A dainty, cupped salmon pink. 

 Dolly Varden. Flowers large, clear, bright pink. Very free. 

 Fireball. Glowing reddish orange. 



George Elger. Buds bright yellow developing into dainty pale creamy 



yellow blooms of pretty form in graceful sprays. 

 Gloria Mundi. Most brilliant orange-scarlet imaginable; never fades, j 



Flowers well formed, full double; very free. / 

 Golden Salmon. Pure orange, borne in large, many branched trusses. I 

 Katherine Zeimet. Very free, full double, fragrant, pure white. 

 Lafayette. Very attractive large, bright crimson-scarlet, in sprays 



of 40 or more flowers each, that can be depended upon for a continuous 



display throughout the season. 

 La Marne. A beautiful semi -double with very pretty, good sized flowers, 



bright salmon-rose at the edges, rosy blush at the centre, exceptionally 



free and continuous flowering, one of the prettiest. 

 Magniflque. Splendid large flower, clear shell-pink borne in large trusses; 



flowers profusely. 



Marytje Cassant. Dainty both in size and color, a most pleasing soft shade of 

 salmon-pink. 



Maud E. Gladstone. Beautiful soft salmon-pink; shapely buds 



and flowers; very free flowering. 

 Miss Edith Cavell. Brilliant scarlet-red with darker shadings, 



one of the most desirable deep colored varieties. 

 Mrs. R. M. Finch. Soft rosy pink flowers, double, fully 2 inches 



in diameter, freely produced in large clusters of vigorous growth 



2 1 feet high. 



Orleans. Of good size, flowers double, brilliant geranium-red 



with white centre, very free and reliable. 

 Paris. Vigorous growing, unfading, bright red. 

 Paul Grampel. Deep orange scarlet in large clusters. 

 Any of the above, 75 cts. each; $7.50 per doz.; $60.00 per 100. 



Hybrid-Polyantha Rose. Pink Gruss an Aachen 



Polyantha Rose, Cecile Brunner (Sweetheart Rose) 



Pink Lafayette. Identical except in color with the favorite 

 red bedding variety Lafayette from which it originated as a 

 sport; color a lively rose pink. 

 Scarlet Button. The richest and brightest of the Baby type; 

 in color an intensely rich and brilliant scarlet; flowers of medium 

 size, produced in many flowered gracefully arranged trusses. 

 Scarlet Leader. Brilliant scarlet with deeper shadings. 

 Sparkler. Brilliant red, very free. 

 One each of the 22 sorts for $12.00. 



FOUR PERPETUAL FLOW- 

 ERING BEDDING ROSES 



Belvedere. A Polyantha Hybrid, a cross between 

 the Polyantha Eblouissant and the richly colored 

 Chateau de Clos Vougeot from which it has inherited 

 its rich, velvety, dark red coloring, while in freedom 

 of flowering it is second to none, being a continuous 

 bloomer throughout the hottest and most unfavor- 

 able weather until late in the season. A most 

 valuable bedding Rose with large flowers for this type. 

 $1.00 each. 



Gruss an Aachen. A very distinct type of Poly- 

 antha Rose with exceptionally large flowers for this 

 type, always a mass of bloom throughout the season, 

 color flesh pink with salmon and yellow shadings, 

 very effective as a bedder. 



Gruss an Teplitz. This is a Rose for everybody, 

 succeeding under the most ordinary conditions. In 

 color it is of the richest scarlet, shading to a velvety 

 crimson; very fragrant, a free, strong grower and in 

 bloom all the time. 



Pink Gruss an Aachen. This desirable variety 

 originated as a sport from Gruss an Aachen, retaining 

 all of the good qualities of this free flowering bedding 

 variety but it is more striking in color, it being deeper 

 and more intense particularly in the pink suffusion. 



Any of the above, except where noted, 75 cts. each; 

 $7.50 per doz.; $60.00 per 100. One each of the 4 sorts 

 for $2.50. 



FREE DELIVERY. Orders placed with us for dormant Roses for delivery on or before April 10th will be 

 delivered charges prepaid to any address in the United States. For planting after April 10th we cannot 

 recommend dormant plants and orders received after that date will be filled with potted stock (as described 

 on page 121) on which the buyer pays transportation charges. 



