New Hardy Rugosa 
Roses 
BLOSSOM ALL SUMMER 

Roses in a naturalistic planting to festoon a wall. 
HE new Rugosa Roses are full and double, sweetly fragrant and the flowers appear abundantly and al- 
most continuously from June until October. The plants are particularly valuable for hardiness, healthi- 
ness and ability to thrive under most adverse conditions of soil and climate, withstanding Minnesota winters 
without covering. 

THE HARDY BUSH-ROSES 
We offer strong, dormant plants that will bloom this year. 
These hardy bush or shrubbery roses are 
very useful for planting in with the usual 
Amelia Gravereaux. Double fragrant flowers of bright cerise red. Price, strong flowering shrubs in borders or in boundary 
plants 130, groups. They are particularly suited for 
Belle Poitvine. Clusters of double, magenta-pink roses over a long season. Price, planting on banks, slopes and in locations 
strong plants, $1.50. where a naturalistic effect is desired. 
Blanda. Soft pink flowers on thornless 
stems 3 to 4 ft. high. Red fruit in fall. 
Price, strong plants, 60 cts.; extra size, 
F. J. Grootendorst. Full clusters of smaller, bright-crimson roses. Always in bloom. 85 cts. 
Price, strong plants, $1.50. Harrison’s Yellow. The best hardy yellow- 
flowering bush rose. Semi-double golden 
yellow. Price, strong plants, $1.50. 
Rubrifolia. Pink flowers. Reddish-purple 
Dr. Eckener (New). Large semi-double flowers of salmon-pink with gold at base of 
petals. A new and unusual rugosa hybrid. Price, $1.50. 
Hansa. Double, fragrant, wine-red flowers. Handsome dark green foliage. Sturdy 
growth and long season of bloom. Price, $1.50. 
Hugonis. An early flowering shrub rose with sprays of light yellow roses along leaves all summer. Price, strong plants, 
the graceful branches. Strong plants, $1.50. $1.00; extra size, $1.25. 
Rugosa Rubra. Rugosa Rose. Handsome crinkled leaves and large, single rose Sweet Briar, Rubiginosa. The old favorite 
flowers of pink to rosy red. Red fruit. Price, $1.00. Sweet Briar fragrant pink rose with aro- 
: matic leaves. Price, strong plants, $1.00. 
Sir Thomas Lipton. A free-blooming, fragrant double white. Price, $1.50. 


SPECIAL COLLECTION—DOUBLE FLOWERING RUGOSA ROSES 
Hardy Roses that bloom all season. Need no winter covering. Plant them ina 
sunny spot near house or in the garden. 
1 GROOTENDORST—Crimson 1 BELLE POITVINE—Rosy Pink 
1 SIR THOS. LIPTON—White 1 HANSA—Wine Red 
4 STRONG STURDY PLANTS TO BLOOM THIS YEAR -_--_____-_--__.___-=+ $5.00 

SIMPLE RULES FOR CARE OF ROSES 
1. Pruning. Before growth takes place in early Spring, remove weak 
growth and branches that crowd or grow into center of plant. Remove 
dry and black wood. Remove any growth starting below the bud 
on main stock. 
2. Watering. When rainfall is not sutficient to keep soil moist, roses 
should be given a good soaking once a week. 
3. Fertilizing. Mulch with cow manure in the dormant season. Use a 
complete commercial fertilizer once a‘month in the growing season. 
4. Spray with Nicotine or Black Leaf 40 every week or ten days to con- 
trol sucking insects. 
5. A combination of nine parts of dusting sulphur and one part of Ar- . 
senate of Lead, used regularly will keep roses free of insects and 
Hybrid Rugosa—Rose diseases. . 
6. Dusting with Sulphur Dust regularly each week controls Mildew. 

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