OUTDOOR ROSES 
STANDARD GARDEX VARIETIES 
Price: 75c each, $7.50 per dozen, $60.00 per 100, except where noted. 
Charles K. Douglas—-Flowers large and semi-double; brilliant 
light crimson with scarlet hue. 
Dame Edith Helen—Lovely long pointed buds developing broad 
petals which curl back most attractively. The blooms are 
double, high centered, and very sweet scented. Color brilliant 
Rose-du-Barri pink. Fine, strong grower and free bloomer. 
Duchess of Wellington—^Intense saffron yellow, stained crimson, 
long pointed flowers, of wonderful fragrance, very productive. 
Edith Nellie Perkins—-A Rose of outstanding merit, vigorous in 
growth and free flowering. Long, pointed bud; flower of good 
size, long lasting and fragrant, double; outside of petals orient- 
red shaded cerise-orange; inside salmon-pink. 
Etoile de Hollande—Brilliant red blooms of magnificent size, 
perfect in half open state, showing clean, attractive centers 
when fully open; petals enormous; very fragrant. Plants branch¬ 
ing; particularly free flowering and healthy. 
Edel—A large, fragrant flower of great depth, quality and finish. 
Color, ivory white. 
Feu Joseph Looymans—Long, pointed buds of brilliant orange 
buff, and large fairly full flowers of vivid yellow, and bright 
apricot, fragrant and freely produced. Growth strong, straight 
and bushy. 
Frau Karl Druschki—Pure snow white, long pointed buds, large, 
full flowers. Perpetual type. 
Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria—Creamy white, immense substance, 
petals smooth and nicely arranged. A popular variety. 
Lady Alice Stanley—The outside petals are a deep rose pink; 
inside pale flesh, slightly flushed with a deeper shading, a most 
beautiful color combination. Blooms are very large and full, of 
great substance and productiveness and one of the most fragrant 
Roses in existence. 
Margaret McGredy—Large, beautifully shaped, full, double 
flowers, entirely distinct from all others in its rich coloring, 
which is a brilliant shade of Turkish or Oriental red, 
passing as the flowers age to a beautiful carmine rose. 
These are borne on long, stiff stems and hold their form 
and beauty for a long time. 
McGredy’s Scarlet—Large flowers are brilliant scarlet 
with orange base and the upper portions of the petals 
are lightly washed crimson. 
Miss Rowena Thom—It is almost impossible to give 
a true color description of this Rose. It seems as if 
all the shades of a desert sunset have been 
caught in all their splendor and held by this 
beautiful Rose. The deep 
center glows with vivid 
Oriental red, shading to 
rose, as the bud expands 
and gradually passing to 
delicate mauve in the full 
blown flower. The flowers 
are large and borne on 
stems 30 inches long, which 
are practically thornless. 
Mrs. Charles Bell—Lovely 
shell pink buds and 
blooms of fine, globular 
form with shadings of 
soft salmon; sweetly 
perfumed. The plants 
are notably strong and 
bushy bearing good 
foliage seldom attacked 
by disease. 
Mrs. Erskine P. Thom — A 
strong, healthy grower, equal 
in strength to the Radiance 
type of Rose. Beautiful, dark 
bronzy green, disease resistant 
foliage. Rich lemon yellow 
flowers, very sweetly scented 
and a very free flowering var¬ 
iety. 
Abol—Faint, blush-pink tinted buds, which open to large, gleam¬ 
ing white flowers. Very fragrant, vigorous grower that blooms 
all season long. 
Better Times (Patented)—The finest red Rose for the garden that 
has ever been introduced. A large, full, heavy growing Rose with 
a high pointed bud, and splendid foliage at all seasons of tbe year. 
Long strong stems that keep the flowers erect at all stages, and 
the delightful fragrance of this flower is not the least of its many 
virtues. Price: $1.25 each, $12.50 a dozen. 
Betty Uprichard—Coppery red buds, opening to semi-double 
flowers of above average size; brilliant orange carmine on outer 
surface of petals, showing light salmon reflexes; spicy fragrance. 
Strong growing, persistent blooming and healthy. 
Briarcliff—A sport from Columbia, retaining all the good qualities 
of its parent; color more brilliant than Columbia, being a true 
rose pink without any shadings whatever. Long pointed bud 
and very fragrant. Every bud of this variety is 100 per cent 
perfect. Abundant dark green foliage and babit of plant very 
vigorous. 
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