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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CQ., N. Y. 
New Roses of SP ec * a * 
The following new Roses are the most unique, valuable, distinct and beautiful varieties which hav f 
been offered for many years. Mach, one is a new departure, and no lover of rare Roses can be without, them 
CHAMPION OP THE WORLD. 
CHAMPION OF THE WORLD, i 
This is the Rose for Everybody , the Rest and Freest i 
Bloomer for Winter or Summer, f 
Champion Bloomer. It commences to bloom j 
as soon as potted from the propagating bench and continues 
in the greatest profusion all the time, summer and winter. 
One plant of it will produce more flowers during the year 
than ten plants of any Tea Rose. It is always in full bloom. 
Plants which have bloomed all summer in the garden may j 
be potted in the autumn, and they will immediately start j 
new growth and bloom profusely all winter in any window. 
Returned to the garden in the spring, they will again bloom 
all summer without intermission. It is never without 
flowers. 
Champion in Hardiness. Though a perpetual 
bloomer, it is as hardy and robust as an oak., standing the 
severe winters of Vermont, where it originated, in the open 
ground without the slightest protection, and commencing its 
season of bloom earlier than any other sort. For a hardy 
garden Rose it is as valuable as it is for pots. 
Champion in Vigor. It is the most healthy and ] 
vigorous Rose in cultivation, for its handsome rank foliage 
has never been known to mildew under any condition, in- j 
doors or out. It is absolutely mildew proof. j 
Champion in Fragrance. It has the most 
delicious and powerful rose fragrance, which is maintained f 
during the whole year. Its perfume in December is as rich, I 
delicate and sweet as it is in June. 
Champion in Form and Color. Its blossoms j 
are perfectly double to the center and of the most perfect 
shape, both in bud and blossom, while its color is a degree 
of loveliness which few roses can equal, being a rich, deep, 
rosy pink, darker and richer than Hermosa, and a shade the 
delicate richness of which is seldom seen. Its size is very 
large for an everbloomer, often as large and fine as La 
France, or the best hybrid perpetuals. 
irt Ceneral. This remarkable Rose, a cross between j 
Hermosa and Magna Obarta, originated several years ago 
in Vermont. The originator says: “ I have tested nearly 
every rose in cultivation and there is not a rose grown that 
will produce, after the usual June bloom, even a respectable 
percentage of the blooms tha.t this will: and no rose of any 
nain .8 or kind that will stand the winter in the open ground 
better than the above. 
Strong , well-rooisd plants, roc. each? three for 
goe,; seven for $x,oo; fifteen for $2,00 , 
CRIMSON RAMBLER. 
Th e 3 Raixjbieps. 
The crimson, white and yellow Ramblers are Roses 9.1 
great value and beauty. They are hardy and rapid grow 
ing climbers, producing flowers in enormous profusion. 
Crimson Rambler —This new Rose is the sensation of thf 
hour, and well it may be, for it Is indeed a marvel. li 
originated in Scotland, and is a hardy everblooming 
climbing Polyanthus. It is perfectly hardy in the opei 
ground, will grow 8 to 10 feet in a season, is in bloom all 
the time from early spring to late fall the flowers appear 
ing in great panicles as large as a man’s hat and of *> 
deep, rich crimson color, like blood colored velvet. Tbs' 
flowers when cut last two weeks in water, and fully k- 
month on the bush, which is a perfect mass of rich crirn 
eon at all times. It can be grown in various ways, as a 
pillar rose, as a trellis rose, and for covering a wall ii 
has no equal, and when pegged down it will form a bed 1 
of itself. Cut back it is a magnificent pot rose for thf 
window. It is always in bloom, even when very small. 
an< j 13 eas .^5" trimmed to a bushy grower. Being the in, 
troduoer in this country, we have the largest and finest 
stock of this superb rose. 
White Rambler —This does not materially differ from thf 
above except in color of its blossoms. Buds of a pinkisl 
tinge, opening pure white. Borne in large clusters, and 
a free bloomer ail summer. Perfectly hardy. 
Yellow Rambler—A new hardy yellow climbing rose 
blooming after the same manner as Crimson Rambles 
in large clusters; flowers of medium size often 35 to 4( 
flowers in a single cluster; very sweet scented, Coloi 
a clear decided yellow, a color heretofore unknown in 
a c hmbing rose. It is a rampant grower, well 
established plant, often making a growth of from ten to 
twelve feet in a single season. The flowers are very 
lasting, keeping in perfect condition three to four week? 
without fading. A strong plant in full bloom makes one 
of the finest pillar or porch plants imaginable. 
Price, 2oe.; each; the 3 for 50 c. 12 plants, 4 of each 
for $r . 50 . 
