CATALOGUE OF ROSES. 
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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. Plants cannot be sent by mail to Canada on account of Canadian custom 
laws. 
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 Reine, or Xavier Olibo as strong as Jacqueminot We have 
the very best quality of each kind, that it is possible to grow. 
SUMMER ROSES. 
BLOOMING IN JUNE AND JULY. 
Climbing or Sarmentous Roses. 
ALL THESE ARE ON THEIR OWN ROOTS. 
AYRSHIRE ROSES. (Rom arvensis hybrida.) 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 he pruned very little, or not at all; they are 
somewhat less hardy and less valuable than the Hybrid Climbing and Prairie Roses. 
BAN KSIA ROSES. (Rosa Banksue.) Most of the varieties in this class have 
small white flowers, resembling double cherry blossoms. The wood is very smooth, slen¬ 
der, and rapid of 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 desirable group. 
HYBRID CLIMBING ROSES. (Rom hybrida scandem.) This class 
takes in those sorts for which it is difficult to find a group where they can be appropriately 
placed. 
PRAIRIE ROSES. (Rom Rvbifolia.) 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 surpass 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, unsightly 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 old wood. They are not grown on own 
roots , but only as budded plants. 
