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Didn’t the roses bloom beautifully last season? Have you 
envied your friends and neighbors their beautiful rose garden? 
No need now for you to put off planting your roses any longer. 
You can plant all of our varieties except the patented ones at 
extremely low prices. 
I feel that of all flowers roses are first. My rose garden 
in the back yard has been simply beautiful all Spring, Sum¬ 
mer and Fall. We have had roses for cutting, too. They 
just kept blooming and blooming. The roses I send you will 
do the same for you because they are the same kind that I 
plant. 
You may wonder why I am so enthusiastic about roses. It 
is because I personally have looked over our roses and I know 
they have real quality and hardiness bred into them, and every 
rose true to name. America turns to Earl May for 
good roses and every rose I offer you is graded accord¬ 
ing to the standards set by the American Association 
of Nurserymen. This assures you of getting strictly 
first quality two-year-old, outdoor nursery grown roses. 
This is the year to learn the pleasure roses can give 
you. My "How to Plant” book, which I send with 
each shipment, tells you exactly how to plant your 
roses for best results. 
Yours, for better roses, 
NEWEST AND FINEST 
EVERBLOOMING ROSES 
SS’".2S“ .37c 3 for 98c Uft. $2.95 ’itf 
8EJ\S£- .29c « for *1.00 >0 for *2.25 SSJ- 
LADY PORTEVIOT. The best new golden yellow marked 
apricot. Fragrant, large and double. 
LEONARD BARRON. Large, full flowers. Buff pink 
tinted salmon. 
SOEUR THERESE. Rich yellow with the outside petals 
marked carmine. The flowers are extremely double, well 
colored and grow on long stems. 
SOUV. MUE. C. CHAMBARD. New coral pink. The bushes 
are covered with loads of large, full, well-shaped blooms. 
VICTORIA HARRINOTON. The newest velvety unfading 
dark red; in the bud it is almost black. As the flower 
opens, a golden sheen spreads from the center. 
BABY ROSES 
GLORIA MUNDI. Clusters of large, 
fully double orange-scarlet blooms. 
GOLDEN SALMON. A mass of bril¬ 
liant golden-orange — bloom all 
summer. 
ELLEN POULSEN. Fragrant, fully 
double, bright rose pink. 
SWEETHEART. Dainty, clear pink 
with golden yellow center. 
Large 2-yr. old outdoor nursery 
grown plants 29o each 
4 for Only 
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RUGOSA ROSES 
Gruss an Teplitz Rose Bed 
Lasts a Lifetime 
Everblooming — Super Hardy — Will Blooin 
This Year 
Gruss an Teplitz is the greatest bedding 
rose of all. It’s super-hardy, blooms pro¬ 
fusely all summer and fall, clear down until 
freezing weather. Comes on year after year. 
Special Offer 
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A wonderful garden rose. Some one said the Rugosa would be 
hardy at the North Pole if roses grew there. After the first year 
forget about them. They take care of themselves, and produce flow- 
er s e very year. 2 yr. old heavy selected plants. 
AMELIA GRAVEREAUX. This is an intense double red, fragrant, 
all summer blooming Rugosa. 
AUSTRIAN COPPER. Single flowers of intense copper-red. Back 
s ‘he of petals a bright golden-yellow. The bush is simply covered 
with these two-tone roses. Extremely hardy. 
BELLE POITEVINE. Bright, clear lively pink. The blooms are 
— full and double with gracefully incurved petals. 
GROOTENDORST. This flower looks like a double carnation and 
grows in clusters. It is fragrant, bright red and the bush is vig¬ 
orous growing and everblooming. 
wnuftwr?Beautiful rich double crimson. 
The °ljl-fashioned hardy yellow garden rose. 
I he branches bend under their load of semi-double bright yellow 
flowers. 
SIR THOMAS LIPTON. A continuous blooming garden and ceme¬ 
tery rose, loaded with beautiful double white flowers 
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