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A. B. Davis & Son, Purcellville, Virginia. 
The Queen. 
Reine Marie Henrietta. (Climbing Tea.) Some- 
times called red-flowering Gloire de Dijon ; clear rich 
crimson, elegantly shaded ; flowers large, full and of 
fine form, very double and sweet. 
Souvenir de Wootton. (Tea.) The finest Ever- 
blooming red Rose ever sent out. Flowers velvety 
red, equal to Jacqueminot, with a perfume that cannot 
be excelled ; a showy grower, every shoot containing 
a flower-bud, making it the most continuous bloomer 
ever introduced. 2-year-olds, 25 cts. 
Suzanne Blauchet. The color is a beautiful pale 
flesh, passing to silvery white, shaded with fine rosy 
amber. 4-inch pots, 15 cts. ; 2-year-olds, 30 cts. 
Souvenir de la Malmaison. (Bourbon.) The 
blooms are extremely large, quartered and double to 
the center ; rich creamy flesh, changing to lovely fawn, 
with rose center ; exceedingly sweet. 
Soinbreuil. (Tea.) This magnificent variety has 
immense finely-formed flowers of beautiful white, 
tinged with delicate rose ; buds large and full, blooms 
ing in clusters. 
Souvenir de Victor Hugo. (Tea.) A splendid- 
Everblooming Rose, introduced from France ; large, 
tulip-shaped flowers, delightfully scented ; lovely 
citron-red, with beautiful amber and fawn shading. 
4-inch pots, 15 cts. 
Souv. de F. Gaulain. Bright red, shaded rose 
Fine buds. 4-inch pots, 15 cts. 
Soll'aterre. (Climbing Noisette.) Of fine, clear 
sulphur-yellotv ; large, double, full and fragrant; an 
excellent Rose of luxuriant growth. 
Souvenir d’ tin Ami. (Tea.) The color is a deep 
rosy flesh, beautifully shaded with rich carmine, edges 
and reverse of petals silver-rose. 
Sunset. Similar to its parent, Perle des Jardins, 
except in color, which is a rich blending of safTron and 
orange. Really a superb Rose for outdoor culture or 
for forcing. 4-inch pots, 15 cts. ; 2-year-olds, 30 cts. 
Sairauo. (Tea.) Bright apricot-yellow, blending 
into orange and fawn, sometimes tinted with rose. 
3-inch pots, 15 cts.; 2-year-olds, 35 cts. 
Souvenir de Mad. Fernet. (Tea.) Beautiful 
soft, silvery rose. 
The Bride. (Tea.) The buds of this fine Rose are 
very large and of exquisite form ; the petals are of fine 
texture and substance, and the full flower is very 
double, as a rule measuring from 3M to 4 inches in 
diameter; thecolor is beautiful creamy white. 2-year- 
olds. 40 cts. 
Thorese Lambert . (Tea.) Elegant and very 
handsome in form and hue ; delicate rose color, base 
of petals finely tinged with old gold, center pale, sil- 
very salmon ; very fragrant, large, full and good. 
4-inch pots, 15 cts. 
The Queen. (Tea.) A grand, globularwhite Rose 
of queenly form, borne on long stems; a free grower 
and free bloomer. 4-inch pots, 15 cts.; 2-year-olds, 30c. 
The Rainbow. (California’s New Tea Rose.) The 
Rainbow is as robust and constant in bloom as its 
parent, Papa Gontier. In color it is a lovely shade of 
deep coral-pink, which is striped and mottled in the 
most unique manner with intense, glowing crimson, 
and elegantly colored with rich golden-amber at center 
and base of petals. It makes beautiful buds, and its 
flowers are extra large, very sweet, and of great depth g. 
and substance. 2-year-olds, 35 cts. w 
Triomphe de Luxembourg. A brilliant salmon 
and rosy carmine, finely nerved and shaded ; one of 
the best old sorts. 
Vallee de Charnounix. (Tea.) The coloring of 
this Rose is simply exquisite ; the base and back of 
petals are a bright yellow, the center highly colored 
with glowing copper and rose. 
Viriditiora. (Bengal.) The flowers of this variety 
are pure green, quite double. 
White Perle des Jardins. (Tea.) A sport 
from Perle desJardins, with foliage darker and rougher. 
It sends up long, stiff, slender canes, each one bearing 
a pure white bud of something more than medium size 
and quite upright. 2-vear-olds, 35 cts. 
Waban. (Tea.) This fine new Rose is a sport of 
Catherine Mermet, and resembles it in every way 
except in color, which is much deeper. 4-inch pots, 
! 15 cts. 
White B011 Silene. A sport of the well-known 
Bon Silene, but ivory white in color; good bloomer. 
4-inch pots, 15 cts. 
W. A. Richardson. (Climbing Noisette.) A new 
shade in Noisettes; orange-yellow; outer petals 
lighter, center coppery yellow ; flowers of good size, 
full and of fine form. 
White Perle des Jardins. 
