NEW ROSE, DOROTHY PERKINS 
THE MOST VALUABLE ROSE NOVELTY SINCE THE INTRODUCTION OF CRIMSON RAMBLER 
la its foliage, growth and habit of blooming in immense clusters, the Dorothy Perkins is remarkably like Crimson Rambler 
but the flowers are more double and of a beautiful shell-pink color. This valuable variety is of recent origination and was raised 
from seed of Iiosa IHchumiana (a Japanese variety of prostrate, trailing habit), crossed with pollen from that fine’old rose Mine 
Gabriel Luizet. Unlike the seed-parent, it is of quite upright habit of growth but retains the remarkable vigor of -Bom II ,<■!>, 
making a growth of ten to fifteen feet often in a single season. 
In the important point of hardiness nothing more could be desired, two unusually severe winters having failed to injure even 
young plants, although during 
one of them the temperature 
went as low as twenty degrees 
below zero and there was not the 
usual snowfall to protect them. 
The flowers are very double, 
are of large size for this class of 
Rose, usually two inches across; 
are borne in loose clusters of 
from thirty to forty, and we have 
often counted even fifty and sixty 
in a truss. The petals are very 
prettily rolled back and crinkled; 
the buds .are remarkably hand¬ 
some, being pointed in shape 
and of just the right size for the 
buttonhole. 
The color is a most beautiful 
clear shell-pink ami holds a long 
time without fading; even after 
the flower commences to fade the 
color is still pleasing, being then 
a lovely deep rose. The flowers 
are very sweet-scented, a char¬ 
acteristic not possessed by most 
other roses of the Rambler family. 
In vigor and habit of growth the 
“Dorothy Perkins’’ is identical 
with the Crimson Rambler. Flo¬ 
rists have found the “Dorothy 
Perkins” to be a great acquisi¬ 
tion for forcing and decorative 
purposes. A bed of “ Dorothy 
Perkins” Roses which was ex¬ 
hibited at the Pan-American at¬ 
tracted an immense amount of 
attention, although the plants 
were young stock which had been 
propagated only some eighteen 
months previous. 
25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz., 
SIC per ICO 
Sl J&k 
E LLIOTT NURSERY 
COMPANY 
PITTSBURG : : : PA. 
