NEW HYBRID WICHURIANA ROSES 
It is for the first time that hybrids of this very useful 
hardy rose are offered. They have been a great surprise 
to me, and to every one who has seen them. 
They keep the same trailing habit, and the same fine 
green foliage, lasting well into January, and the same 
freedom of growth, some of them having made from a 
small cutting plant a shoot 18 feet 6 inches last season, 
and are therefore well adapted for any place, either to 
cover bare spaces on the ground, or for trailing purposes, 
for which they are invaluable. > 
As to flowers, they produce innumerable quantities of 
well formed blooms, lasting a long time in perfection, 
and flowering with such a freeness that no rose can 
equal it, so that a two or three year old plant can be 
fairly counted to produce a thousand or more flowers, 
and thus be a sight that can hardly be described. 
As to hardiness they have stood the severe winter of 
1895-96 on a very exposed and bleak situation, without 
any covering whatever, and have flowered beautifully 
the following spring. They are not particular to any 
soil, but will grow even on the poorest gravelly and 
sandy banks, for which they are well adapted, not only 
for these purposes, but also as a pot-plant, either to force 
early in the spring or let it come naturally. 
The variety named “Manda’s Triumph” is well 
adapted for pot culture, as it is literally covered with a 
fine double white flower for several weeks. Taking 
them all in all, the set of four varieties represents a collec- r 
tion that should be in every garden, and which surely 
will prove even more valuable than the celebrated 
“Crimson Rambler.” 
Manda's Triumph. 
This is a grand hybrid of free growth, with fine foliage 
and clusters of from twelve to eighteen flowers on even 
a small side shoot, literally covering the plant with its 
perfectly formed double white flowers, nearly two inches 
across, beautifully imbricated—a valuable sort, either 
for cut flowers or pot-plants. It is also very sweet 
scented—a valuable variety for florists. 
Universal Favorite. 
A free grower, producing long branching shoots, with 
bright shiny foliage in abundance, and soft light pink 
double flowers, two inches in diameter, strongly . 
perfumed. 
South Orange Perfection. 
This is a gem, with free growth, close to the ground, 
and multitudes of the most perfectly formed double 
flowers, about one and a half inches in diameter, soft 
blush pink at the tips, changing to white. 
Pink Roamer. 
This is without question a hybrid between the Sweet- 
brier, and carries these characteristics in bloom, while 
the growth, which is very rampant, and the luxurious 
foliage, partake more of the Wichuriana. The single 
flowers, which are produced in close heads, are nearly 
two inches in diameter, bright rich pink, with almost a 
white centre, which lightens up the orange red stamens, 
producing an effect which, combined with the fragrance, 
makes it one of the most valuable roses in cultivation. ^ 
PRICES. 
Plants to be delivered about the 1st of March, 1897. 
2 inch pot-plants, $3.50 per doz., $25.00 per hundred, 
$225.00 per thousand. 
Extra strong 3 inch pot-plants, $4.50 per dozen, 
$35-oo per hundred. F 
