ROSES 
HILLSDALE LANDSCAPE CO. 
ROSES 
Throughout many centuries the Rose has been rightly regarded as the “Queen of 
Flowers.” This feeling is entirely justified as, indeed, there is scarcely any other 
flowering plant which, in return for so little money and effort, can return such an 
abundance of beauty and charm over such a long season. 
There is every indication that Roses have been cultivated and loved before and since 
the dawn of written history. We find written records showing that after the fall of 
Rome and during the Dark Ages in Europe, the early Christians cultivated Roses and 
introduced the flowers into their ceremonies; the Rosary or string of prayers being first 
formed of the hips or seed pods of these plants in the seventh century. 
In her bock on “Old Time Gardens,” Alice Morse Earle tells us how “the Persians 
gather before a single plant in flower; they spread their rugs, and pray before it; and 
sit and meditate before it; sip sherbet, play the lute and guitar in the moonlight; bring 
their friends and stand as in a vision, then talk in praise of it, and then all serenade it 
with an ode from Hafiz and depart.” So it is that we would gather our friends around 
these exquisite Roses offered here, and like the Persians we would praise these Roses 
in sunlight and by moonlight, and sing their beauty in verse. 
CULTURE—We cannot go into the details of Rose culture here, but upon request 
be telephone, mail, or in person, we shall be pleased to furnish our many customers and 
friends with our “Rose Culture” pamphlet which thoroughly explains the method of 
planting our potted Roses, and how to prune and care for them in general. 
All of our Roses are strong, budded, two-year-old, field-grown plants. Thev are 
A No. 1 grade plants, the best grade available on the horticultural market today. Being 
field grown, the plants have developed in a natural way and are of far superior strength 
and vitality than stock which has been developed into full growth under glass. 
For your protection we sell no bare rooted, dormant plants. All our Roses are 
potted and in a healthy, growing condition, thus making it possible for you to buy a 
growing and flowering plant at any time during the growing season and plant it in 
your garden. 
All Roses offered here have been tried and tested at our nurseries before offering 
them to you. We have found them to be of excellent quality and completely satisfactory 
in every way. 
HYBRID TEA ROSES 
About 1870 the delicate, ever-blooming Tea Rose was combined with the rugged, 
once blooming, Hybrid Perpetual. The result was the hardy, ever-blooming Hybrid Tea 
Rose as we know it today. There are thousands of varieties of them including all that 
can be desired in form, color and fragrance. There is not a single purpose demanded 
of the rose which the Hybrid Tea cannot fill. They are equally at home in the informal 
border cr the beds of a formal garden, and wherever they are one receives a full season 
of exhibition sized blooms. The Hybrid Tea is certainly unsurpassed as a cut flower 
for house decoration or for the buttonhole. 
The varieties we offer have been carefully chosen as those best representing the 
Hybrid Tea Roses, and most adaptable to our weather conditions. 
AI'TUMN—Burnt orange streaked with red. 
Disease-resistant. 75c each. 
HKTTY fii’RICHARD—Orange-carmine, out- 
erside; soft pink inside. 75c each. 
CALEDONIA —Extra long buds; flowers pure 
white, large, double. 7r>c each. 
C. K. DOUGLAS—Flaming scarlet, suffused 
with velvety crimson. 75c each. 
CONDESSA DE SASTAGO—Double blooms of 
coppery pink inside, and golden on outer- 
side. 85c each. 
CYNTIIIA —A good scarlet-crimson. 85c each. 
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DAINTY BESS —Most popular of single roses. 
Vigorous plant; large clusters of waxy- 
petaled rose-pink blooms with wine-red 
stamens. 85c each. 
DAME EDITH HELEN — Double, glowing 
pink: most perfumed of all pink roses. 75c 
each. 
Drill ESA DE PENA RAN DA —Double, cin¬ 
namon-peach color. Fragrant. Strong plant; 
attractive foliage. 85c each. 
EDITH NELLIE PERKINS— Double, fragrant 
flowers of orange-cerise; inside a salmon 
pink. 75c each. 
EDITOR McFARLANI) —Long pointed pink 
buds with a glow of amber. Fine for cut¬ 
ting. 85c each. 
For Fragrance Try Our Russian Violet 
