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FAST-GROWING CLIMBING ROSES. 
Suitable for covering arches and bowers, disfigured walls, etc. They are perfectly hardy, almost 
evergreen, producing in great abundance small semi-double flowers. They will flourish in any situation, 
and require very little pruning. Their growth is very long and slender. 
Price 9d. each, 7 - per dozen. 
Habit if 
DESCRIPTION. _ Growl 1 . 
Alice Gray flowers white, delicately edged with pink ; free blooming, 
and very strong growing ; suitable for arches. 
Ayrshire Queen colour purple red ; very fast growing and evergreen. 
Dundee Rambler ( Martin ), white, pink edges; semi-double perfect shape. . . .very vig. 
Felicite Perpetue ( Jacques , 1828), creamy white; rosette shaped ; one of the best 
of this section 
Gracilis colour bright rosy red ; large and full ; free blooming, 
and fast growing. 
Inermis ( Morlet , 1883). . . .bright clear crimson; free bloomer; dark foliage with red 
wood ; it makes a bold and effective bush 
Leopoldine d’ Orleans {Jacques), white, tipped red ; rosette shaped 
Myrianth.es Rononcule, pinkish rose, changing to deep rose 
Queen of the Belgians, creamy white, perfect shape 
Rampant pure jvhite, very free flowering 
Ruga pale flesh ; large, double flowers produced abundantly; 
a very strong climber. 
The Garland blush, changing to white ; semi-double; free flowering; 
distinct and pleasing 
Thoresby ana white ; small and double ; very strong growing. 
SUMMER, MOSS, PROVENCE, and CHINA ROSES. 
Flowering from May to August, and require very little pruning. The three first-named make 
magnificent garden hedges, and attractive bushes, and are Charming companions for tlie Lord Penzance 
hybrid sweet briars. 
Stds or Habit of 
Half Strls Dwfs. NAME. DESCRIPTION. Growth. 
— .. 1/- Angelique Quetier (moss), colour pale lilac rose; free blooming, 
and well mossed vig. 
— . . -/9 Armosa (B.) colour pink ; very double, free flowering, and 
effective for massing : 
2/- .. — /9 Austrian Briar ( Harrison , 1830), golden yellow; perfect 
or Harrisonii double flowers, about the size of a penny; 
remarkably beautiful ,, 
coppery red ; the most charming 
of all single roses ,, 
pure yellow; large single flowers; 
very pretty. 
— . . 1/6 Alba Simplex (Macartney), single white ; free flowering and very 
pretty. 
— .. -/9 Baron de Wassenaer (moss), bright rod flowers; produced in clusters ., 
— .. ~/9 Blairii, No. 2 (summer), {Blair, 1845), blush with rose centre; cupped; 
a bold-looking climbing or bush rose ,, 
2/- .. — /9 Blanche Moreau (moss), (Moreau-Robert, 1880), pure white; pointed 
bud; prettily mossed ; the best white ,, 
— . . -/9 Celestial (Provence) .... a light blush colour ; strong grower and free 
bloomer 
— .. -/9 Charles Lawson (B.) . .colour vivid rose; flowers very large and double; 
a vigorous grower ; suitable for a shrubbery. 
2/- . . — /9 Austrian Copper 
2/- . . -/9 Austrian Y ellow 
Grown in England 
in 1596 by John- 
Gerard. 
Twelve strong Bush Plants from his selection, our choice of sorts, for 7/-., 
