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Geo. H. Mellen Co., Florists and Nurserymen 
Everblooming Hardy Hybrid Tea Roses 
T HE HYBRID TEAS form a large and important class of garden Roses. They appear in many shades 
and hues, and are thoroughly reliable, enduring much cold with ordinary protection, developing 
luxuriantly great masses of llowers that possess wondrous fragrance. 
Rose—E. G. Hill 
Allan Junior Strong, upright grower, flowers 
large and full. Color is a rich 
bright velvety crimson. A grand garden Rose as 
it is always in bloom. 
Anuele Probably the most beautiful white Rose 
* in existence. Very large white bud with 
a greenish tint, opening to a majestic, perfumed 
bloom of pure white. Long, strong stems for cut¬ 
ting. Hardy. One-Year Plants, 30c each; Two- 
Year Plants, 60c each. 
Antoine Rivoire Large, full Camelia-shaped 
flowers. Color rosy-flesh, on a 
yellow ground, shaded with a border of carmine. 
Bessie Brown The flowers are very large and 
highly built and double; color is 
a creamy-white with a beautiful shade of pale, ten¬ 
der flesh, resembling gloss silk. 
Briarcliff A new and beautiful deep rose pink, 
considered a decided improvement over 
the well known Columbia. Buds are very large and 
long pointed; flowers are immense in size with high 
center and full petalage of lasting substance. 
Blooms freely on long, strong stems. 
Crusader A brilliant velvety crimson. The blos¬ 
soms are gorgeous, with delicious frag¬ 
rance. Produced freely; of perfect formation. 
Dixie (Salmon pink, Radiance)—Has marvelous 
texture and form, like its parent, the gor¬ 
geous Radiance, but Dixie is more double. Large 
cupped, deliciously fragrant flowers are produced 
freely. Beautiful salmon pink. 
E. G. Hill Just a new variety and the largest red 
rose yet produced. The flower is daz¬ 
zling scarlet, shading to a deeper pure red as it 
develops. It produces long, strong stems and the 
foliage is large and handsome. The buds are long 
and shapely, unsurpassed in beauty, except by the 
open flower, which is full, double and of beautifully 
formed petals. This rose is named for its producer, 
Mr. E. G. Hill, of Richmond, Ind., internationally 
known hybridizer of roses. This is a guarantee of 
its high character and worth. 
Etoile de France Flowers very large and borne 
on good, long, stiff stems; 
color a lovely shade of clear red, crimson-velvet; 
very fragrant and keeps well. 
Eugene E. Marlitt Rich bright carmine with 
scarlet tones. It is a strong, 
upright grower and a constant and profuse bloomer 
with extra large flowers; full, deep and double, and 
deliciously tea-scented. 
Large Two-Year Plants, 40c each. Your choice, 
4 for $1,50; 12 for $3.95; except where noted. 
Scott Kev Ver > r large and double, light 
J crimson buds and blooms of 
noblest form; slightly fragrant. Plant makes vig¬ 
orous, erect growth, producing its massive blooms 
in great abundance; fine foliage and decidedly 
hardy. In cool weather a perfect and glorious rose. 
p p Patzer The blooms are produced with 
. great freedom, they are carried on 
stiff stems and are of large size and substance and 
perfect formation; highly tea-scented. Color, bril¬ 
liant salmon-pink, of very fine shape, buds sharply 
pointed. 
Golden Ophelia A r ? al golden-yellow witlmut 
^ a tinge of any contrasting 
color. Vigorous grower, bearing an abundance of 
perfectly formed, deliciously fragrant flowers on 
stiff, heavy stems. 
Gruss An Teplitz As a b t dd * n& this , is 
r one of the finest. The color 
is brightest scarlet, shading to deep, rich velvety 
crimson. It is very fragrant. A queen among scar¬ 
let bedders. 
Harvard One of the handsomest red Roses, beau¬ 
tiful both in bud and in the fully ex¬ 
panded flower. The color is a rich, bright, velvety 
crimson. A strong, vigorous, upright grower; flow¬ 
ers large and full, a great garden Rose. One-Year 
Plants, 30 cents each; Two-Year Plants, 60 cents 
each. 
Gould The flowers are full and perfectly 
double, the buds beautifully made 
and pointed. The color is warm, rosy crimson. 
Jonkheer J. L. Mock ^ u ii double flowers of 
brilliant carmine - rose 
on outside of petals, turning silvery-rose toward the 
center. Wonderful garden variety. 
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria 11 is a continu- 
a o u s bloomer, 
producing successive crops of buds, and formed with 
large petals of best substance; shows no center 
when fully open; color pure creamy-white. 
Killarnev The magnificent sturdy habit of 
y growth, beautiful foliage, delicious 
fragrance and deep brilliant sparkling pink flowers 
makes this one of the most beautiful and popular 
roses ever produced. 
La Champagne Strong". robas ^ habit, with 
^ ® large, long buds of beautiful 
shape, which develop into good, full blooms; color, 
bright chamois, shading to yellow with apricot 
center and peach-blossom reflex and yellow base. 
I adv Plvmouth The color is a pearly, delicate 
* y but deep ivory-cream, faintly 
flushed, giving it a most piquant finish that is diffi¬ 
cult to describe. 
Mrrw* Rntterflv A perfect harmony of bright 
mme. Duuerny pink> apricot and gold. Buds 
are medium in size, perfect for corsages, while the 
open flowers are lovely in form, texture and frag¬ 
rance. 
Mrs. Charles Bell Jt u be described as a 
shell-pink Radiance, and is 
a sport of that well-known Rose. It has no char¬ 
acteristics which make it distinct from Radiance 
except that it is shell pink. Mrs. Chas. Bell, Red 
Radiance and Radiance offer a range of color that 
will be welcome, and there are no finer garden 
Roses for America than these three. 
Mrs. Aaron Ward g ne of tbe mos * delightful 
Roses of recent years in a 
color that catches the eye at once. Coppery-orange 
in the open bud, golden-orange when partly devel¬ 
oped, pinkish-fawn of lovely shade when fully open, 
when it looks like a full, fluffy silk rosette. 
New Columbia 
The 
An offspring of the great “Co- 
umbia,” with which it is iden¬ 
tical. The magnificent flowers are borne in greal 
profusion. The fragrance is even sweeter than that 
found in American Beauty. Color a deep silvery- 
pink, deepening towards the center. A remarkably 
strong grower and a great novelty. One-Yeai 
Plant*, 30 cent* each; Two-Year Plant*, 60 cents 
each. 
