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Thousands of Flowers for Just a Few Cents 
You may plant climbers on your porch, on the fence or on a 
trellis. A climbing rose is extremely hardy and when once 
established lasts a lifetime, producing thousands and thou¬ 
sands of flowers every year. Just think! An investment of a 
few cents in permanent beauty gives you these immense 
quantities of flowers. 
3 for $*| 12 for $3.50 Each 40c Postpaid 
Large Flowering Climbers 
PAUL’S SCARLET. My favorite in the hardy red climbers. The 
most brilliant colored climber, equally as dazzling as the new 
Blaze. It just takes your breath away to see it loaded with big, 
long stemmed, dazzling red roses. 
MARY WALLACE. An early blooming, extra large flower, bright 
pink. One of the most charming and desirable hardy varieties. 
The flowers are full, double, 20 petals to each flower. This rose 
is very vigorous and often climbs 15 to 20 feet. 
CLIMBING AMERICAN BEAUTY. Just as beautiful as the Bush 
Ymeriean Beauty. This hardy Climbing American Beauty has 
big', deep pink roses, several to the stem. I like it because it's 
fragrant. 
Eskimo Beauties (Rugosa Roses) 
Here Is a wonderful garden rose. The Rugged Rugosa. 
Someone said it Would be hardy at the North Pole if roses 
grew there. After the first year forget them; they take care 
of themselves. 
AMELIA GRAVEREAUX. Double red, fragrant; blooms all 
summer. 40c each. 
Cluster Climbing Roses 
SIR THOMAS LIPTON. Beautiful double white flowers. A 
continual bloomer. Pine for garden and cemetery planting. 
30c each. 
CRIMSON RAMBLER. An old-fashioned favorite that's always 
covered with big clusters of brilliant double red roses. 
GARDENIA. A clinging climber, pure yellow in color. You’ll get 
a new thrill by having Gardenia climbing on your fence or on 
the trellis. 
BELLE FOITEVINE. The blooms are large, full and double, 
the petals gracefully incurved. Bright, clear lively pink. 
30c each. 
t>ne each of these three fine, strong, vigorous everblooming 
Eskimo Beauties 80c, postpaid. 
Continuous Blooming Baby Ramblers 
Bloom First Season 
3 for 12 for *3.50 Each 40c Postpaid 
These roses are dwarf growing. Bush is very compact and bears 
immense clusters of flowers ail 
over the bush. They will make 
a splendid flowering hedge that 
will be hardy, low growing, dense 
and compact, or a fine bed plant¬ 
ing. The strong, 2 year old plants 
I offer you will bloom for you the 
tirst season. They start bloom¬ 
ing just a few short weeks after 
planted. They are fine for ceme¬ 
tery planting too, because of 
their hardiness and continuous 
blooming qualities. 
RED IDEAL. Six years ago I 
planted the first Ideal Baby 
Rose that I think was intro¬ 
duced in this territory. It has 
been blooming in my yard ever 
since. The quality of the bloom 
is a richer red than any other 
of the crimson I have ever 
seen. In fact, the color is a 
garnet red. I know it is hardy 
in the Parm Belt aijd I can heartily recommend it. 
GOLDEN SALMON. New and beautiful. The color is a beautiful 
red-salmon overlaid with a color of orange and gold. The flowers 
ire double, thickly clustered: one of the surest bloomers. 
CRIMSON BABY RAMBLER. One of our most popular Baby 
Roses because it is always covered with flowers all summer long. 
The color is a light crimson, many flowers in a cluster. 
YELLOW GEORGE ELGER. A golden coppery color turning to -a- 
t'lear yellow upon opening. I consider this 
l he only satisfactory yellow Baby Rose. 
BABY ELLEN POULSEN. This is a vigorous 
flowering, popular baby rose. Very full 
flowers, in large clusters, a soft rose pink 
in color. Fragrant. 
WHITE CATHERINE ZEIMET. A wonderful 
rose for hedging purposes. The bush bears 
very large clusters of small, double, pure 
white, (lowers. 
Flower Clusters of 
Golden Salmon 
Hardy Roses for Yard and 
Decorative Planting 
3 for $1.00; 12 for $3.50; Each 40c Postpaid. 
GROOTENDORST. The ideal garden rose 
blooming all summer. One of our finest roses 
for landscape work and for hedging. Grows 
about t feet, and is covered with red flowers 
growing in clusters. 
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Hardy June Blooming Roses 
(Perpetuate)—Longest Lived Rose of Ail, Bloom First Year 
Big flowers, full, double and extremely hardy biggest 
blooms of all. These roses are favorites with everyone in 
the Northern States. Will last a lifetime on account of their 
hardiness. The flowers are large, full, double and the-bushes 
are simply loaded with them. 
Red 
IMPROVED AMERICAN BEAUTY. This fine, large, popular, 
cherry-red Rose is a fayqrite all oyer the world. It is old 
hut reliable. It is a vigorous grower, and I have yet to 
see a red Rose that surpasses my Improved American 
Beauty. 
GENERAL, JACK. The real; beauty about this excellent 
red Rose is that several flowers come on the same strong 
stem. The bush will get six feet high. Intensely fragrant. 
Order under the name of General Jack. 
Pink 
PAUL NEYRON. All of us like the big Ihings in life, big 
melons, big cabbage, and here's the big rose. Lasts a long 
t ime, clear pink. If you want a champion in the garden in 
large size and fragrance, you have it in Paul Neyron. 
MRS. JOHN LAING. Here's the longest stemmed, longest 
pointed hud, sturdy rose of the pink Hybrid Perpetual 
roses. Everyone who grows it says it’s the most useful 
of this group. A continuous bloomer and gives the Hybrid 
Teas a real run for number of blooms per season. 
White 
DRUSCHKL This is known as the White 
'S American Beauty. The flowers are large, of 
waxy paper-white, and it continues to bloom 
* 1 ? lear . down until the first snows of the fall. It 
is without doubt the most lovely and largest 
of the white Roses that has ever been in¬ 
troduced. 
Yellow 
SOLIEL D’OR. Everybody likes a large yellow 
Rose. This beautiful, full flowered golden yel¬ 
low Rose which turns a ruddy gold and sort 
Paul Nayron 
of Nasturtium red, is one of the most charm¬ 
ing Roses of its class, and being a Hybrid 
Perpetual will last for years after planting. 
The Soliel d'Or is the most marvelously colored 
Hose in all creation. 
