ZILKE'S EVERBLOOMING ROSES 
Strong 2-year Field Grown Bushes, each 85¢; 5 for $4.00; 10 for $7.50 
Our bud selected Roses are 2 yr. heavy field grown extra selected, carefully budded, super size bushes that will 
bloom all summer and fall, producing blooms much larger than the ordinary bushes offered by most nurseries or 
mail order houses at so-called low prices. 
THE DOCTOR — This is considered by many to be the most beautifully 
colored of all roses. The long, pointed buds open into simply enormous, yet 
graceful blooms, so fragrant that you can detect them many yards away. 
It is a pink with a life, an iridescence, a sheen that is beyond description. 
Each flower is so perfect, so gorgeous, that you will consider it almost 
priceless. It is far more beautiful than can be described. 
AMI QUINARD — A variety which is here to stay, beats all others; best 
near black Rose in our estimation. Deep velvety crimson, fragrant and 
very lasting. A vigorous shrubby plant, with almost single flowers of deep 
blackish scarlet. 
PRES. HOOVER—A glorious combination of cerise-toned orange, scarlet 
and yellow. Richly perfumed, long stemmed and free blooming. One of the 
most beautiful roses ever introduced. 
COLUMBIA — Full petaled rose-pink buds deepening as the blossom 
opens; erect on long stems; vigorous, intensely fragrant, and a good keeper. 
CONDESA DE SASTAGO — It is the first fully double variety to carry 
the vivid color of coppery red and yellow. Very hardy, vigorous, healthy 
growth. Has rich raspberry perfume. Keeps well when cut for indoor 
enjoyment. 
BETTER TIMES — Brilliant red flowers, large, double, fragrant. 
Rouge Mallerin 
MRS. E. P. THOM—Beautiful 
bright canary yellow. 
GOLDEN RAPTURE—Beautifully formed long-lasting 
buds, fully double blooms of rich yellow on long, strong 
stems. Vigorous grower. Delightful fragrance. The 
perfect yellow rose. 
ETOILE DE HOLLANDE — Large, velvety crimson 
flower produced in great profusion throughout summer. 
Deliciously perfumed. Vigorous upright grower. An ex- 
cellent red Rose. 
EDITOR MCFARLAND — The perfectly formed flow- 
ers are clear brilliant, unfading pink, and as a cut flower 
it retains its form and lasts longer than any other 
Rose we know. A winner of many awards. The growth 
is vigorous, the foliage healthy, and it blooms all the 
time from early summer to frost. 
CRIMSON KING — The color is a deep crimson in its 
large, well shaped, 
KONIGIN LOUISE — Large pure white, double, very 
strong grower. 
COUNTESS VANDAL—Beautiful pink, copper, gold 
and salmon color combination; long pointed buds, strong 
stems. 
POINSETTIA— One of the most brilliant scarlet 
Roses we know of. The true poinsettia color. Bush is 
sturdy and hardy and a good grower. Buds are long, 
poms in abundance and open slowly into gorgeous 
ooms. 
K. A. VICTORIA — This is the favorite and the best 
white rose for the middle west. Buds and flowers glis- 
tening, snowy white. Foliage exceptionally shiny and 
clean, seems to bloom much longer than any other 
hybrid tea. 
MC GREDY’S SCARLET — A wonderful rose, beauti- 
ful in the garden and fine for cutting. The large flowers 
of luminous carmine-red are produced generously from 
spring until frost. 
perfect form, large in size and fragrant. 
4 TALISMAN — Its brilliant orange-red buds open to large, fragrant, 
_ high-pointed blooms of glowing golden yellow stained with copper- 
_ red and orange-rose on inside of petals. As the petals unfold, they 
become bright apricot-gold, deep rose-pink or old rose, and unlike 
most Roses, the color becomes brighter as the flowers develop. © 
Plants are vigorous, healthy and hardy growers. 
_ ROUGE MALLERIN— The pointed buds of brilliant red open to 
3% inch blooms of glowing scarlet, the deep pile on the petals 
- making them look like rich scarlet velvet. Rich old Damask perfume. 
_ SYRACUSE — Scarlet-crimson on vigorous upright plant. Double. 
DAME EDITH HELEN—Largest most perfectly shaped and most 
perfumed pink rose. Clear glowing pink, from the time the bud 
opens until the petals fall. Blooms abundantly, with long, strong 
_ stems. Growth of bush is vigorous and thoroughly hardy. 
STERLING — We consider this one of the very finest pink roses in 
existence, a clear pink with just a trace of salmon to give it a 
warm glow. Delightfully fragrant. The blooms are perfect in bud 
and when open. Very vigorous plant which blooms continuously. 
| SOEUR THERESE — Long, pointed buds are chrome-yellow, heavily 
marked with carmine; the open flower is rich daffodil-yellow and 
holds its | color _ well. Sweetbriar fragrance. Blooms come freely 
on splendid cutting stems. 
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