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particularly without roses. To such we are pleased to offer special inducements in 
the shape of roses by mail, at half the price charged for the large plants, thus en¬ 
abling all to provide themselves with the most beautiful flowers. The plants are sent 
post paid at the prices named, but the money must be sent with the 
order, as the very large number of letters received by each mail makes it a very 
laborious matter to keep open accounts with each customer. • 
The plants sent by mail are grown in two and a half and three-inch pots; they 
are healthy young plants, well rooted and carefully prepared for mailing. 
Note carefully the habit of growth as stated in the description, and you will not 
be disappointed in the size of the plants; it would be very unreasonable to expect 
plants of Eugenie Verdier as large as La Heine or Xavier Olibo as strong as Jacque¬ 
minot. IVe have the very best quality of each kind that it is possible to grow. 
BLOOMING IN JUNK AND JULY. 
Climbing or Sarmentous Roses. 
ALL THESE ARE ON TIIEIR OWN HOOTS. 
AYRSHIRE ROSES. (Rosa arvensis hybnda.) These are of slender, 
rapid growth, often running fifteen feet in one season, and are used in covering 
buildings, etc. They do not require rich soil, and should be pruned very little or not 
at all; they are somewhat less hardy and less valuable than the Hybrid Climbing and 
Prairie Roses. 
BANICSIA ROSES. (Rosa Bankdce.) Most of the varieties in this class 
have small white flowers, resembling double cherry blossoms. The wood is very 
smooth, slender, and of rapid growth, the foliage quite small. Not being hardy, they 
have no great value in the North, but in the Southern States they form a very desir¬ 
able group. 
HYBRID CIAMBING ROSES. (Rosa hybnda scandens.) This class 
takes in those sorts for which it is difficult, to find a group where they can be appro¬ 
priately placed. 
PRAIRIE ROSES. (Rosa Rubifolia.) These are much the most valuable 
of all the non-remontant climbers. The foliage is rough, large, with five leaflets, 
generally of a dark color; for rapidity of growth they equal the Ayrshires, and sur¬ 
pass all climbers in hardiness. The flowers are produced in large clusters late in the 
season, when other Summer Roses are gone. When it is desired to cover walls, un¬ 
sightly buildings, etc., with Roses, none will be found to do the work so efficiently 
as varieties of the Prairie Rose. 
Austrian or Yellow Roses. 
(Rosa Lute a.) 
These require careful pruning- Remove weakly wood altogether, and only 
shorten a few inches the shoots left for flowering. If pruned close they will not 
bloom, as the flowers are produced from the terminal shoots of the old wood. They 
are not grown on old roots , but only as budded giants. 
