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A. B. DAVIS & SON, PURCELLVILLE, VIRGINIA. 
GENERAL LIST of EVERBLOOMING TEA ROSES. 
Price, 10 cents each. 
Adam. A large, full flower, very sweet; | 
blush-rose, with salmon center ; delicious 
tea scent; a lovely rose — a great favorite. 
Adrienne Cristople. This is very full 
and double, tea-scented ; a lovely shade 
of apricot, citron and fawn, tinged with 
soft, rosy-pink. 
Aline Sisley. Varying from a deep rose 
to a purple, the prevailing shade being a 
deep purplish-rose. It is delightfully fra- 
grant. 
Andre Schwartz. Flowers large, full and 
sweet; brilliant glowing scarlet, passing 
to rich crimson ; a constant and profuse 
bloomer. 
Anna Olivier. Lovely creamy-blush, 
shaded with deep carmine ; large and 
full. 
Archduchess Isabella. Delightfully fra- 
grant ; white, shaded with rose-carmine, 
changing to amaranth ; lovely buds. 
Bon Silene. The buds and their fragrance 
have made it a great favorite. The buds 
are dark rosy-carmine, with a slight 
flush of purple ; very handsome, and pro- 
duced in great profusion. One of the best 
for pot-culture. 
Belle Fleur de Anjou. Large, full and 
double ; delightfully fragrant ; beautiful 
silver-rose; large, pointed buds. 
Bella. Pure snow-white, splendid long 
pointed buds ; tea-scented, large size, full 
and double. Extra. 
Bongere. A superb rose; very large, 
double and full ; delightfully sweet tea- 
scent ; bronze-rose o r violet-crimson, 
delicately shaded with lilac. 
Clement Nabonmind. Charming buds 
and beautiful flowers; coppery-rose, 
tinged with purplish-crimson ; a constant 
and profuse bloomer. 
Camoens. (Hybrid Tea.) A magnificent 
rose; flowers very large and full ; China- 
rose, suffused with pale-yellow, passing 
to white, flushed with carmine ; very 
fragrant and fine. 
Cornelia Cook. The buds areofimmense 
size and are borne up high on massive 
stems, and with their round, full, heavy 
forms carry an air of grace and dignity 
quite unusual. The flowers are of clear- 
est, snowiest white. 
Catherine Mermet. Its name is the syn- 
onym for all that is delicate and beauti- 
ful. Its buds are inimitable, faultless in 
form, and charming in their every shade 
of color, which ranges from the purest sil- 
very-rose to the exquisite combining of 
yellow and rose which illumines the base 
of the petals. 
Comtesse tie Labartlie. We have here, 
in one rose, almost all the desirable quali- 
ties — exquisite perfume and beautiful col- 
oring — a soft, light rose, with heavy shad- 
ing of amber and salmon. 
Charles Rovolli. A charming Tea rose ; 
large, globular sweet flowers; lovely bril- 
liant carmine, changing to silver-rose. 
Devoniensis. Large creamy-white rose, not 
very double. Forms long, creamy buds, 
with just the most delicate blush on the 
edges of petals ; a free bloomer. 
Comtesse Riza du Parc. The flowers 
are handsome in form, and strangely col- 
ored ; a clear but deep carmine, with 
shadings of copper color, and an under 
tinge of yellow ; profuse bloomer. 
Coquette de Lyon. We have no yellow 
rose to bloom so freely as this; canary- 
yellow, delicious perfume; fine form. 
Duchesse de Brabant. Soft, rosy flesh, 
changing to deep rose. 
Dr. Grill. (Tea.) Copper-yellow, with 
a fawn-rose reflex, back of the petals 
shaded china-rose ; an entirely new col- 
or. Large, well- formed flowers; a vigor- 
ous grower and very free bloomer. 
Duchess of Edinburgh. Remarkable for 
its beautiful color, which is of the most 
intense glowing crimson ; lovely buds. 
Enfant de Lyon. Creamy-pink, center 
rosy-blush ; its fragrance is not unlike 
“sweet anise.” 
Elizabeth Gramont. (Tea.) A lovely 
open rose ; beautiful, bright, clear carmine 
flowers, with crimson-red center, large, 
full and sweet; striking and handsome. 
Etoile de Lyon. The flowers are very 
large, doubleand full, and deliciously fra- 
grant ; a beautiful chrome-yellow, deep- 
ening at center to pure golden-yellow ; 
each bud is a gem. 
Jean Pernet. Light-yellow, suffused with 
salmon ; beautiful buds ; magnificent 
variety. 
Louisa de la Rive. A soft rose-blush, 
delicately shaded with salmon-fawn ; the 
flowers are of large size, very full and de- 
lightfully sweet. 
La Princess Vera. Immense buds, which 
are prettily shaded and quite distinct; 
pale flesh color, changing to salmon-rose 
shade, with carmine ; very sweet tea 
scent. 
Luciole. A Tea rose of brilliant and extra- 
ordinary color; rosy-carmine, deep saf- 
fron-yellow and yeilow-bronze combine in 
a large and exquisitely formed bud and 
flower. 
Lady Stanley. Lilac, shaded yellow, 
border of petals carmine ; flowers are 
medium size, globular and of good sub- 
stance. 
Isabella Sprunt. Equal in all respects 
to Safrano, from which it is a sport ; lux- 
uriant in growth, and gives in profusion 
its long lemon-yellow buds. 
Try our collection of 36 Pansies for $1. 
