AUTUMN CATALOGUE OF BULBS, SEEDS AND GARDEN REQUISITES. 19 
HARDY ROSES 
Tor Tall Planting. 
Price, 3o cts. each ; $3.oo per doz. 
Roses of this class produce the largest and most beautiful flowers, and the varieties 
offered below are all perfectly hardy, and when thoroughly established they bloom very 
freely at the usual season, June and July, and at intervals throughout the balance of the 
Summer and Fall. They should invariably be planted in the open ground, being adapted 
for outdoor cultivation rather than for house culture. 
American Beauty. The largest, sweetest 
and best of all hardy roses; color a rich 
rosy crimson, shaded and veined in the 
most charming fashion, and in fragrance 
not surpassed by any rose we know. 
Caprice. Ground color, soft, satiny pink, 
distinctly striped and dashed with white 
and carmine; most distinctly marked. 
Coquette des Blanches. Pure white; 
very free blooming. 
Gen. Jacqueminot. The most popular of 
all roses of the hybrid perpetual class; 
color, rich crimson; of fine shape and ex¬ 
quisite fragrance. 
Hellen Kellar. Of such extraordinary 
beauty that failure to please everyone 
seems impossible; color, a clear bright 
pink; flowers large and finely made; 
petals shell-shaped and of great sub¬ 
stance. 
John Hopper. Flowers are large, very 
regular and full; color brilliant rose 
changing to bright glowing pink, shaded 
with rich crimson; profuse bloomer. 
Mine. Plantier. The best hardy white 
rose; a profuse and continuous bloomer; 
splendid for cemetery use. 
Mme. Gabriel Luizet. A beautiful, ele¬ 
gantly formed rose, full and fragrant; 
color an exquisite shade of coral rose 
suffused with lavender and pearl. 
Marchioness of Lome. A remarkably 
free-flowering variety of an exceedingly 
rich rosy color, slightly shaded in the 
center with vivid carmine. 
Margaret Dickson. Perfectly hardy and 
of magnificent form; color a pure waxy 
white, without spot or blemish; the best 
white rose yet introduced. 
Mrs. R. G. Sharman Crawford. Deep 
rosy pink; outer petals tinted pale flesh 
in quite a new and unique shade, base 
of petals white; large and of perfect 
form. 
Paul Neyron. Bright shining pink, clear 
and beautiful; no collection complete 
without this grand rose. 
Prince Camille de Rohan. Handsome 
fragrant flowers of a deep rich velvety 
crimson, passing to intense maroon 
shaded black; so dark in color is this 
variety that it is popularly known as 
the “Black Rose." 
HARDY CLIMBING ROSES FOR OUTDOOR 
PLANTING. 
This class is so well known that it is not necessary to devote space to a long descrip¬ 
tion of these wonderfully beautiful and useful hardy climbers. They are suitable for 
training on walls, verandas, trellises, arbors and pillars, and as specimen pot-plants for 
winter forcing. Flowers are well-formed and, though small, are produced in so great 
profusion as to present an immense mass sf bloom. 
Price 35 cts. each; three for $1.00. 
Crimson Rambler. A rapid growler, fre¬ 
quently making shoots 10 to 15 feet in 
one season. The flowers are produced 
in trusses, and fairly cover the plant 
with a mantle of vivid crimson, which 
remains for many weeks. 
Pink Rambler (Euphrosyne). This rose 
is as charming as any of its rivals, em¬ 
bracing all their good qualities of hardi¬ 
ness, vigorous growth, profuse blooming 
and delightful fragrance. 
"White Rambler (Thalia). This charming 
new rose climbs rapidly, is entirely 
hardy, produces immense clusters of 
pure white flowers, perfectly double and 
of delightful fragrance. 
Yellow Rambler (Aglaia). It is identical 
with Crimson Rambler, except flowers, 
which are deep golden yellow and very 
fragrant. 
WICI1URAIANA. 
(MEMORIAL ROSE.) 
A Japanese variety which creeps on the 
earth after the habit of Ivy. The flowers 
grow in profusion in clusters at the ends 
of the branches. Flowers pure white, with 
yellow stamens, and very fragrant. Valu¬ 
able for use in cemeteries and covering 
rockeries, etc. Hardy. Two-year plants, 
35c. each; three for $1.00. 
