H 
F. H. DeWitt & Co., Wooster, Ohio 
roses 
COLUMBI A—Habit—This variety 
sends up quickly numerous stiff stems 
which are of good length without 
pinching, and to produce Extras and 
Specials requires less attention to pinch¬ 
ing than any variety that we know, as 
it naturally throws long, stiff, smooth 
stems. 
Foliage—It is a free, easy grower 
with beautiful foliage, the leaves spaced 
just right to please a cut-flower grower, 
and to form a fine setting for the bloom. 
Thornless for 10 to 12 inches below 
the flower, as well as very few thorns on 
the lower stem. 
Color—True pink, about the shade of 
a perfect Shawyer, deepening as it opens 
to glowing pink; a peculiarity of the 
variety is that the shades all become 
more intense until the full maturity of 
the open flower is reached. 
Size—It is one of the Big Roses, 
and takes on a wonderful depths. 
Orders filled in strict rotation. 
Price 
$ 30.00 
70.00 
250.00 
Own Root 
Per 100 
Per 250 
Per 1,000 
500 at 1,000 
Grafts 
$5.00 per 100 
additional 
for grafts 
STANDARD SORTS 
RICHMOND—Most largely grown red 
for forcing in cultivation. 
$5.00 per Hun., $45.00 per Thous. 
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY—An Amer¬ 
ican seedling, raised in Baltimore, and 
one of the very finest of all the red 
Roses for Summer culture. Flowers 
extra large and full. Splendid variety 
to grow as it is not addicted to either 
black spot or mildew. 
$7.00 per Hun., $60.00 Per Thous. 
HOOSIER BEAUTY—The red rose 
of 1915, which has been found more 
profitable than Richmond. 
The color is magnificent — crimson 
scarlet with darker shadings and a vel¬ 
vety texture. Bud long and pointed; 
can be cut fairly close and is a splendid 
keeper and shipper. 
Has more petals than Richmond; delic¬ 
iously fragrant; a good salable rose in 
Summer as well as in Winter. 
Free and continuous, flowers on every 
shoot. Easy to do; does not need 
pinching. 
Clean in growth, does not mildew nor 
spot; takes a trifle lower temperature 
than Killarney. 
Growers of the variety report that it 
cuts as many to the plant as Ophelia. 
We are sure that even exclusive of 
the short stems, this variety produces 
more good buds to the plant than any 
red variety now before the trade. 
$7.00 per Hun., $60.00 per Thous. 
HADLEY—This is a nice, bushy 
grower, and produces dark crimson-scar¬ 
let buds on good stems. 
With a number of the large growers 
it is a favorite; the habit is ideal, the 
bloom exquisitely beautiful, magnificent 
in form and color. 
$7.00 per Hun., $60.00 per Thous. 
KILLARNEY—The standard pink 
rose, grown by ninety-nine per cent, of 
the florists of the country up to the 
present year. Our stock is fine. 
KILLARNEY BRILLIANT—The deep 
crimson-pink sport of Killarney. This 
variety in the majority of establish¬ 
ments is superseding old Killarney which 
cannot be depended upon to hold its 
color; even when Killarney Brilliant 
runs lighter, it is still a fine, intense 
shade which sells well, while the older 
sort cannot be given away when “off 
color.” 
$6.00 per Hun., $50.00 per Thous. 
WHITE KILLARNEY, “The White 
Rose of the Century”—Our only white 
forcing variety for the present and so 
extremely satisfactory that we would 
hardly need a better, though we would 
like something as good—and different 
just for variety. 
$6.00 per Hun., $50.00 per Thous. 
DOUBLE WHITE KILLAR¬ 
NEY—With many growers used in 
preference to the original White Kil¬ 
larney, as it has many more petals and 
makes a finer flower for warm weather 
use. 
$6.00 per Hun., $50.00 per Thous. 
MRS. GEO. SHAWYER—Wonderfully 
free in bloom, profuse in production of 
good strong breaks, and of fine leathery 
foliage. 
Color, bright peach-pink; buds long 
and well filled, carried on 3 and 4-foot 
stems; a first favorite with a great 
