ROSES 



CLIMBING ROSES 



The idea of this planting you can apply to any home. The bank is covered with 

 climbing Roses and give a wealth of joy in June and remain green the rest of the season. 

 The New Haven Railroad at Mt. Vernon, and the Pennsylvania at Marion, where Mr. 

 Bok started the idea, used the climbing Roses for the railroad cuts. You can decorate 

 the railroad or the roadsides in your vicinity either as an individual or part of the com- 

 munity work. Just dig holes 10 ft. apart and put them in. Fall is the time to plant. 

 We have a supply of big strong vines. They will give a big show next year. If you 

 wait until Spring they will not bloom as well. Use them on the pergola, in the shrub- 

 bery, or to climb up the big trees and as a background for the garden. They will do the 

 most for the least care as all they need is cutting back the surplus branches. 



The detail flower in the corner is the American Pillar. Perhaps, you remember 

 when we did not have the present list of Climbing Roses and when the Crimson Rambler 

 was introduced. These are an American achievement due to explorers in China who 

 brought out the multiflora and Wichuraiana Roses. These species like our changeable 

 climate. Various plant breeders, as Jackson Dawson at the Arnold Arboretum, Boston; 

 W. H. Walsh, Woods Hole, Mass., Dr. Van Fleet and others in Europe have bred many!of 

 these new varieties within the last 25 years. You and your gardener can do the same 

 with Roses and food plants. There is need of hardy garden Roses with good foliage 

 blooming throughout the Summer. Join the American Rose Society, Harrisburg, Pa., 

 and subscribe to the Journal of Heredity, Washington, D. C. Get the literature and 

 learn how to do plant breeding. 



2-yr., strong, field-grown plants, 3-6 ft., cut back. $1.00 each, $7.50 per 10, $60.00 per 100 

 Our selection of varieties , 40.00 per 100 



Aviateur Bleriot. Bright yellow in bud, carmine when open. 



Climbing American Beauty. Flowers rich carmine, large and fragrant. A vigorous 

 grower. 



American Pillar. See illustration. Cherry pink with white center, contrasting with 

 golden stamens. 



Delight. Bright carmine flowers contrasting beautifully with the glossy foliage; early 

 blooming. 



Dorothy Perkins. No Rose has more rapidly and deservedly come into popular favor. 

 Perhaps you have noticed how there is a new pink note in the landscape as you ride 

 through such villages as Freeport and Rockville Center. You can use them for a 

 hedge or let them ramble at will in your shrubbery. 



Dr. Van Fleet. Developed by the doctor when he had a private plant breeding estab- 

 lishment at Little Silver, New Jersey. Now he is doing Rose breeding for theHL S. 

 Department of Agriculture. A charming Rose, double pink, pointed bud. Worth 

 planting for its foliage alone. 



Excelsa. A great improvement on the Crimson Rambler because the foliage and 

 flower buds are free from mildew. It also is a better color and the great value is its 

 continuing to show bright color late in July. 



Lady Gay. Almost identical with the Dorothy Perkins in color. 



Milky Way. White, with yellow stems; large, semi-double flowers, fragrant. 



Setigera. Prairie Rose. An American species you will be proud of. It has big single 

 flowers like the picture of American Pillar. You will catch glimpses of it along the 

 railroad from central New York to Chicago, climbing over shrubs 10 ft. high, showing 

 you just how to decorate your landscape. Get out of your car and plant one in some 

 roadside thicket or swamp border. Everybody will enjoy it and the botanists will 

 wonder if it is native. We will give you this and many other plants if you will dis- 

 tribute them this way for the public benefit and also to experiment with and to be- 

 come acquainted with them on your grounds. Don't be bashful about asking. It is 

 the cheapest way for us to advertise, because plants are the very best spokesmen, and 

 beauty is its own excuse for being. 



Silver Moon. Single white, 5 in. in diameter. 



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