Rutherfoj'd, N. J ^American - Gnmm Agrees 
WHAT ROSES TO PLANT 
Embraced in the following pages will be found certainly the largest collection of Rose varieties 
available anywhere in America, well-grown plants of which can be procured by our customers. To 
make more easily practicable proper consideration of this great list, purchasers are recommended to 
thoughtfully read the following statements before completing their orders. 
The Everblooming Roses, so called, include 
Hybrid Tea, Pernetiana, and Tea Roses, grouped 
in one alphabetical order but designated in their 
respective classes by suitable initials. These 
Roses give the widest range of beautiful flowers 
over the longest season, in the complete gamut 
of all colors yet known in the Rose. Most of them 
are fragrant. They are not all reliably hardy all 
over the United States, but if protected as 
recommended in this catalogue, they can be 
grown anywhere on the continent, even to and 
beyond the shores of Hudson Bay. 
The special qualifications and origins relating 
to each of these classes included under the one 
head of “Everblooming” are given in following 
pages. It is here in point to commend them as 
suitable for gardens everywhere, because they 
provide within a few weeks after planting, and 
more or less frequently all through the growing 
season, the most beautiful Roses yet known to 
man. 
Polyantha Roses follow, and might well be 
embraced with the Everbloomers, because they 
are constantly in flower all through the growing 
season. They are characterized by dwarf and 
compact habit and by their clustered flowers, 
which include a wide range of color. They are 
best planted in front of other Everblooming Roses. 
Hardy Climbing Roses include those of the 
Multiflora and of the Wichuraiana parentage, and 
the list here presented, much the largest available 
anywhere in America, provides a wide range of 
the most beautiful flowers, borne usually in one 
great burst in early summer on plants of splendid 
vigor which can be used in the different varieties 
to cover gateways, porches, fences, pergolas, 
hedges, and trellises, to trail over banks to be 
protected, or as beautiful “pillars” in the garden, 
or, indeed, with a little training, as admirable 
bushes in the shrubbery. For the most part 
they bloom but once, but they then justify them¬ 
selves as fully as does any lilac or spirea. 
Other Climbing Roses follow, including the 
climbing sports of the Hybrid Teas and similar 
forms, mostly not quite so hardy as those above 
mentioned and not providing the one wonderful 
burst of bloom in June, though blooming recur¬ 
rently through the season. In suitable localities 
these Roses are of great value and beauty. 
Hybrid Perpetual Roses are those of rugged 
hardiness, showing flowers of enormous size, the 
most brilliant colors, and the sweetest fragrance, 
that provide a most notable bloom crop in early 
summer, thereafter blooming but sparsely, if at 
all, in the fall, save for one or two that are con¬ 
tinuous under good culture. These Roses are of 
taller growth than the Everblooming and Poly- 
antha Roses. 
Austrian Brier Roses include several sorts of 
hardiness, excellence, and unique beauty. These 
are taller in growth and require careful consid¬ 
eration in placing them. 
Rugosa Roses and their hybrids provide dis¬ 
tinct and beautiful foliage, with flowers of a 
wide range of beauty and fragrance, freely pro¬ 
duced in early summer, and recurrently later, on 
plants of the most rampant vigor but not of 
climbing habit. These desirable Roses make 
good defensive hedges, may be trained to novel 
forms, and require more room and height than 
other Roses mentioned. 
Hybrid Sweetbriers include improvements on 
the famous old Eglantine of Shakespeare. They 
are covered in early summer with a mass of 
exquisite single blossoms and are primarily useful 
as bold and broad objects in the shrubbery. 
Moss Roses belong with the Hybrid Perpetual 
Roses, being characterized by one blooming 
season and by their flowers of unique beauty, 
the buds showing the mossy covering which 
distinguishes them. They are ruggedly hardy. 
The Wild Roses and Rose Species are the 
natural forms of the Rose, American, European, 
Chinese and Japanese, which have persisted for 
many centuries. All of them are beautiful, some 
are unique, and all may be placed advantageously 
in parks, in large shrubbery borders, or on large 
grounds where room can be given them. 
Miscellaneous Roses follow, including some 
of the oldest forms known to cultivation, among 
the Damask, Musk, French, Provence, Cabbage, 
Bengal, and Bourbon types. These Roses also 
are generally best in shrubbery relationships, or 
as borders, or in beds in large Rose-gardens, or 
for particular purposes in the gardens of those 
who know them. They are for the most part 
completely hardy, long-lived, and enduring. 
It should be noted that while we have above 
explained and have mentioned elsewhere in this 
catalogue the particular uses of different classes 
of Roses, and are mentioning in several depart¬ 
ments those most adapted for special uses and 
situations, we will be pleased to give further 
advice to inquirers. 
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