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MENTOR. , OHIO W A ySIDE GARDEMS 
Hybrid Tea Roses 
We offer only Northern Ohio grown Roses, recognized nationally as the 
finest quality Roses produced in America. 
ALL ROSES OFFERED ARE 2-YEAR-OLD SELECTED NO. 1 GRADE, WHICH 
IS THE FINEST QUALITY AVAILABLE. 
Under this heading we offer only the very choicest and most popular 
varieties of Tea Roses, with the majority of which every lover of the Rose 
is familiar. We recommend this collection for general planting to the ama¬ 
teur who wishes the finest varieties, and who is desirous of a supply of 
extra choice flowers to cut throughout the season. There is not one indi¬ 
vidual sort which we connot endorse as possessing superior merit. 
Core and Culture of Roses. Lack of space prevents giving corpplete or 
worth-while cultural information in this catalog. A fully illustrated booklet 
has therefore been prepared to cover this subject properly and will be sent 
to you upon receipt of twenty-five cents. 
Ami Quinord Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
Blackish crimson buds; semi-double flowers of maroon-red. Tall, vigor¬ 
ous grower. 15 petals. 
Autumn Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
Burnt orange, streaked ond marked with red. Bud of medium size, 
developing into a cupped, double, frogrant flower. 
Betty Upriehord Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
One of those delightfully contrastive types; the outside a blend of 
deep toned carmine with coppery orange; the interior being mostly a 
delicote salmon-pink. 
Briorcliff Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
Large, pointed buds and double, high-centered blooms of brilliant rose- 
pink; fragrant and long lasting. 
Caledonia Each $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
The most desirable white; exceptionally long-pointed bud opening to a 
very double, high-centered, long-lasting, very large, moderately fragrant 
flower. Continuous free bloomer. 
Caroline Testout Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
One of the most popular and valuable bedding varieties; large, full 
globular flowers of bright satiny rose, with brighter center, very free 
and frogrant. 
Charles K. Douglas Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
Of vigorous, upright growth, and liberal, fragrant bloom which is of 
delightful form. Color a flaming scarlet flushed with velvety crimson. 
Charles P. Kilham Each $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
A brilliant, distinct ond striking novelty which will appeal to and please 
every Rose lover. The buds are long pointed, of perfect shape,-opening 
to high centered, perfectly formed, full double flowers of a rich and 
brilliant Oriental red, flushed with orange ond glowing scarlet. A vigor¬ 
ous grower; very free flowering and sweetly tea-scented. 
Claudius Pernet Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
A most vigorous grower of erect branching habit, beautiful brilliant 
green folioge, long pointed buds of exquisite shape, carried on long, 
stiff stems. Very lorge, full flowers with elongated deep petals; a 
beoutifully formed bloom. Color most striking sunflower-yellow. 
Columbia Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
This beautiful Rose is of strong. Vigorous habit and exceptionally free 
blooming. Color a most pleasing shade of rose-pink and delightfully 
fragrant. 
Cuba ' Each $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
Vivid orange-scarlet buds opening to immense, cuplikc flowers of 
iridescent copper-red and brilliant orange-vermilion. Extremely free- 
flowering and a vigorous, erect grower. 
Dainty Bess Eoch $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
^ An appropriote name for a daintily colored single Rose of perfect form; 
a delicote shade of shell-pink with a conspicuous bunch of crimson 
stamens. A greatly admired, long-lasting, single flower. 
Dame Edith Helen Eoch $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
Shapely buds and substantial, high-centered blooms of clear pink, 
sweetly scented and freely produced on long, strong stems. Vigorous. 
Most remarkable for the number and beautiful orrangement of its 
petals. 
Duchess of Wellington Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
Intense saffron-yellow, stained with deep crimson, changing to a deep 
coppery saffron-yellow as the flowers ore foirly full, with lorge petals, 
great substance, delightfully frogrant. 
E. G. Hill Eoch $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
Beautiful long bud of perfect form and full double, high-centered 
flower of dozzling scarlet, shading to a deeper red os it develops. 
Strong, vigorous free-flowering habit. 
Edel Each $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
An enormous bold, stately, well built flower of greot quolity ond finish. 
Color white with faintest ivory shoding towards the base, passing to a 
pure white. A fine grower with uniform, stout habit. 
Edith Nellie Perkins Each $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
A Rose of outstanding merit, vigorous growth and free flowering. Long, 
pointed bud; flower of good size, long lasting and fragrant, double; 
outside of petals orient-red shoded cerise-orange; inside salmon-pink. 
Eldorado Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
In this we have an exoct counterpart of Miss Lolita Armour, in the 
lorge sized flowers of distinct formation, vigorous growth and free- 
flowering hobit ond fragronce, but in color it is of the golden yellow 
that is peculiar to the climbing Rose, Marechal Niel, with the base of 
the petals slightly tinted red. 
Elizabeth of York Each $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
Pointed buds and medium size, semi-double flowers of bright cerise- 
pink, borne singly on long stems. A profuse, continuous bloomer. The 
flower is very beautiful when half open. 
Etoile de Hollande Each $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
Brilliant red blooms of magnificent size, perfect in half-open state, 
showing clean, attractive centers when fully open; petals enormous; 
very fragrant. Free flowering. 
Feu Joseph tooymans Each $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
Long, pointed buds of brilliant orange-buff, and large, fairly full 
flowers of vivid yellow and bright apricat; fragrant and freely produced. 
Golden Dawn Each $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
The ideal yellow garden Rose. The ovoid, lemon-yellow bud, heavily 
splashed with crimson, develops into a well formed, sweetly scented, 
large, double sunflower-yellow flower that reminds of the old favorite 
Marechal Niel. Vigorous, free flowering. 
Gruss an Teplitz Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
This is‘a Rose for everybody, succeeding under the most ordinary condi¬ 
tions. In color it is of the richest scarlet, shading ta a velvety crimson; 
very fragrant; a free, strong grower and in bloom all the time. 
Hinrich Gaede Each $1.00, Doz. $10.00 
Long pointed shopely bud of Nasturtium-red color, lorge, double, high 
centered flowers of ideal shape of a color unusual and unlike any Rose in 
commerce—a rich luminous vermilion shaded golden yellow such as is 
found in high-colored modern Zinnias. Rich, fruity fragrance. A free 
and continuous bloomer. 
Hilda Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
Ovoid buds, opening to large, double flowers with overlapping petofs, 
salmon-pink on the inner surface and deep orange-corrhine on the out¬ 
side. 60 petals. 
Imperial Potentate Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
Dark, shining rose-pink, shaded lighter on reverse of petals; fragrant. 
Erect, branching plant with very good foliage. Blooms wrth remarkable 
freedom. 
Independence Day Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
Flaming yellow buds, heavily shoded with copper and brown, opening 
quickly to moderately lorge flowers of 15 to 20 petals which rapidly 
fade to light orange-pink. 
Innocence Each $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
Tapering buds, opening to enormous pure white blooms with a center 
of wine-red stamens tipped with golden anthers. 12 petals. 
Joanna Hill Each $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
Invaluable for the garden. The buds are large, long pointed and open 
to large, full, semi-double, attractive, long lasting, moderately fragrant 
flowers of a clear yellow with orange-yellow heart. They are borne 
singly on long strong stems; growth vigorous, upright, a profuse 
bloomer. 
Jonkheer J. L. Mock Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
The flowers, which are produced with the greatest freedom on long, stiff 
stems, are of large size and of perfect form, of a deep imperial pink, the 
outside of the petals silvery rose-white. 
Koiserin Augusta Victoria Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
Soft pearly white, tinted with just enough lemon in the center to relieve 
the white; remarkably fragrant, beautifully formed flowers on long, 
graceful stems; a strong, free, healthy grower. 
Killarney Queen Eoch $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
Another Killarney, closer to the originol in color but fuller, and stronger 
in growth. Very free flowering. It is practically immune to mildew, 
with large flowers and thick petals. 
Killarney White Each $0.75, Doz>$7.50 
A duplicate of the charming pink Killarney; flowers white as snow. 
Lady Alice Stanley Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
A gem that everyone admires; it is absolutely perfect in every way; 
form, color, size, freedom of bloom and fragrance are fully developed; 
in color it is a beoutiful shade of coral-rose, the inside of the petals 
shading to flesh-pink with deeper flushes. 
Lady Ashtown Each $0.75, Doz. $7.50 
A very free-flowering voriety, producing fine blooms throughout the 
season. Flowers large and of a delicote soft rose color, shading to 
yellow at base. 
Lady Forteviot Each $0.80, Doz. $8.00 
Long stems each bearing several large, double, high centered, lasting 
blooms of a beautiful golden yellow changing to deep apricot, and 
flushed with cardinal-red. Extremely fragrant, free growing, ond 
floriferous. 
