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HARDY ROSES 
T HE ROSE is the most appreciated of any of our flowers, and is becoming more and more useful, for new 
varieties fit it for a varying number of uses. The climbing roses are valuable for covering walls, trellises, 
porches, and stumps. The hybrid perpetuals and tea roses are very useful for beds or in the hardy border. 
The single roses make very effective masses for covering steep banks, rocky places, and masses against walls, etc. 
There are other roses that are valuable for groups on the lawn or in the shrubbery border. We here list only the 
old favorite varieties and some new kinds that have been found very valuable. 
HARDY VARIETIES (BUSH ROSES) 
Rosa blanda (May. Rose Color), Early Wild Rose. 
A small variety with light colored foliage and rich single rose 
colored flowers. Valuable in masses in shrubbery border, on banks, 
and in the garden. 
Price.35c 
Rosa Carolina (June to September. Pink Color), Swamp 
Rose. 
A tall growing variety with single pink flowers. Very showy 
bright red fruit. Valuable plant for shrubbery masses and on slopes. 
35c. 
Rosa multiflora (June. White), Many-flowered Rose. 
Produces immense numbers of small semi-double white flowers. 
Very fragrant and very valuable for borders and other landscape 
features. 
Price.35c. 
Rosa Humilis (June to August. Pink color), Dwarf Wild 
Rose. 
A low growing variety with large leaflets and small single pink 
flowers. Does well in dry sandy places. 
Price.35c. 
Rosa Setigera (July. Rose color), Prairie Rose. 
A small climbing rose with branches that droop over forming 
rounding heads. Produces a great profusion of large single rose- 
Price 
