Modern Roses of Proved Merit--Continued 
Lady Downe. Flowers buff, shaded in the center when opening with deep yellow, 
changing when fully open to a pale shade of yellow; excellent for cutting and 
for general effect in the garden. {See cut.) 
Price, 1st size, $1.00 each; 2d size, 75c. each; 3d size, 25c. each, $2.50 per doz. 
Madame Edmee Metz. A vigorous growng variety. Flowers are rosy-carmine 
shaded with salmon, large and full; free-flowering, very effective. 
Price, 1st size, 60c. each; 2d size, 50c. each; 3d size, 25c. each, $2.50 per doz. 
Mmc. Jenny Gillemot. A vigorous Hybrid Tea with fine deep green foliage. The 
buds are long and pointed; rich nankeen-yellow changing to saffron-yellow as the 
flowers develop. 
Price, 1st size, 50c. each; 2d size, 35c. each; 3d size, 10c. each, $1.00 per doz. 
Mme. Jules Grolez. A beautiful satiny china-rose color, very bright and attractive, 
flowers are large, very double and are freely produced; fine for bedding. cut.) 
Price, 1st size, 50c. each; 2d size, 35c. each; 3d size, 10c. each, $1.00 per doz. 
Mme. Segond Weber. The color is rosy-salmon, a unique shade. The buds are 
long and pointed, opening into enormous blooms, deepening in color until fully 
expanded. The texture of the flower is very thick and heavy. 
Price, 1st size, 60c. each; 2d size, 50c. each; 3d size, 25c. each, $2.50 per doz. 
Mme. Valerie Baumez. Color, light flame with golden center, shaded glowing 
salmon. Flower full and beautifully rounded; handsome foliage. 
Price,1st size, 60c. each; 2d size, 50c. each; 3d size, 20c. each, $2.00 per doz. 
Mrs. Alfred Tate. The color is coppery-red, shaded fawn, with a 
distinct ochre shading at base of flower. Long, perfect-pointed 
bloom; very sweet-scented. 
Price, 1st size, 60c. each; 2d size, 50c. each; 3d size, 35c. 
each, $3.50 per doz. 
Mrs. Aaron Ward (Hybrid Tea). If it never bore a 
flower, the plant would still be an object of beauty 
with its close-set foliage, dark and glossy leaves, 
with maroon reverse. The wonderful color 
catches the eye at once—a deep, golden- 
orange shading out to creamy-yellow and 
white at the edge of the petals; the buds 
are cupped and very deep, showing the 
glowing heart to the best advantage. 
Remarkable for its freedom of bloom. 
cut.) 
Price. 1st size, 60c. each, 
$6.00 per doz.; 2d size 
50c. each, $5.00 per 
doz.; 3d size, 20c. each, 
$2.00 per doz. 
Mrs. Chas. Curtis Harrison. 
Deep crimson-pink on front 
of petals, crayoned deep 
crimson-carmine on reverse 
side — a warm color, very 
highly perfumed. 
Price. 1st size, 75c. each; 
2d size, 60c. each; 3d size, 
25c. each, $2.50 per doz. 
Mrs. Foley Hobbs (Tea). 
Ivory-white, tinged pink 
on edges. Large perfect 
flowers. Tea-perfumed. 
Petals thick and shell- 
shaped. Awarded Gold 
Medal National Rose 
Society. 
Price, 1st size,$1.00each; 
2d size, 75c. each; 3d size, 
3Sc. each, $3.50 per doz. 
Mrs. Fred Straker. 
Orange-crimson in the bud 
developing as the bloom 
expands to silvery-fawn on 
front of petals and delicate 
orange-pink on back — buds 
long and highly Tea perfumed. 
Price, 1st size, 75c. each; 2d size, 
60c. each; 3d size, 35c. each. $3.50 
per doz. 
Mrs. Herbert Stevens (Tea). A 
very hardy Tea Rose. Color, white 
with a distinct fawn and peach shading 
towards center, the petals are of great 
depth and substance. One of the most 
wonderful bedding and garden roses in exist¬ 
ence. Price. 1st size, 60c. each; 2d size, 50c. each; 
3d size, ISc. each, $1.50 per doz. 
Mrs. Maynard Sinton. The color is silvery-white, with porcelain shading, 
suffused pink towards the edges. Petals of great depth and of ivory¬ 
like substance; a stout healthy grower. , j 
Price. 1st size. 75c. each; 2d size,60c. each; 3d size, 25c.each. S2.50pcr doz. 
Mrs. Peter Blair. Lemon-chrome, with golden-yellow center; medium size, 
lovely shape; deliciously perfumed. A decorative rose of exceptional merit. 
Price. 1st. size. 75c. each; 2d size. 00c. each; 3d size, 3Sc. each, S.k.SO per doz. 
Nita Weldon (Tea). Ivory-white with the edges of each petal faintest blush. 
The flowers which are produced in marvellous profusion, are of largo size, very 
full and of globular form, the buds being long and pointed. 
Price. 1st .size. 75c. each; 2d size, 60c. each; 3d size. 25c. each. $2.50 per doz. 
O. Terks, Rosy-flesh shaded with salmon; a vigorous grower; large flower with 
fine shell-like petals. A most attractive and frec-flowenng v?mety. 
Price, 1st size. 60c. each; 2d size, SOc. each; 3d .size, 20c. each. $2.00per doz. 
Rayon d’Or (Hybrid Briar.) A gorgeous new golden-yellow Rose. Color, intense 
orange-yellow as the bloom begins, to open, turning to Sunflower-yellow when 
fully expanded; fine bronzy-green, glossy foliage; free-blooming and good grower. 
Price, strong imported plants, $1.00 each, $10.00 per doz. ... n t 
Rene Mere DTtalie. Color apricot ochre-yellow, center rosy-pink, vigorous growth; flowers of 
good size, full, nice form, and extremely beautiful; very floriferous. Awarded Silver Gut Medal. 
Price. 1st size, 60c. each; 2d size, SOc. each; 3d size, 35c, each. $3.50 per doz. 
Richmond. The color is magnificent, a most vivid and rich scarlet-cnmson; a fine forcing rose. 
Price. 1st size, SOc. each; 2d size, 35c. each; 3d size, 15c. each, $1.50 per doz. 
Robin Hood. A glorious rosy-scarlet color that is at once soft and bright and lasting; tm? liloom 
is full and of the beautiful build of the Hybrid Perpetuals; flowers are very freely produced. 
Price, 1st size, 60c. each; 2d size, SOc. each; 3d size, 35c. each, $3.50 per doz. ... , • , 
Rose Queen. The color is an intense rose-pink, lustrous and deep. Ihe form cn the bud is long, 
slender and pointed, the ideal shape. As the buds expand the heart of the flower discloses a 
glowing color difficult to describe; very rich and warm. The foliage is dark green. 
Price, 1st size, 60c. each; 2d size, 50c. each; 3d size, 20c. each, $2.00 per doz. 
The Lyon. Shrimp-pink at ends of jietals, center coral-red or salmon sha<lcd with chrome-yellow, 
making a most distinct and charming combination. Flowers large and f 
Price, strong imported plants, 75c. each. $7.50 per doz. 
, full; very fragrant. 
“ The Rose ? She is a queen, more wonderful than an^ that have bloomed on orient thrones. 
