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Title: Beautiful flowers for every home, 1900
Identifier: CAT31284629 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Charles A. Reeser Co; Innisfallen Greenhouses; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Ohio Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Urbana, Ohio : C. A. Reeser Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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INNISF^Att^N GRBENHOUSieS, URBANA, OHIO. 13 Oran ew Koses Of Great Value CLIMBING METEOR—This new Rose is equaled only by the peerless Jacqueminot, and will produce twenty blossoms to Jacqueminot's one; will make ten to fifteen feet of growth in a season, and show a profusion of bloom every day. Foliage, strong, healthy and luxuriant; buds, exquisite"; flowers, large, beautifully shaped, and of that rich.^ dark, velvety crimson color seen only in the Jacqueminot. We do not hesitate to pronounce it the finest Rose in existence for Summer bloom- ing, as it will make a large growth, and is loaded with its glorious blossoms all the time. For Winter blooming it has few equals in beauty and probably none in profusion. Just the Rose to train up in a conservatory or bay window, where its exquisite blossoms will show to wonderful advantage. Price, 15 cents each; two for 25 cents, large, two-year-old ; plants, 50 cents each. AUGUSTINE HALEM—Extra large and handsome; full, well developed buds and flowers, having good, thick, waxlike pe- tals of excellent substance; color clear, bright, rosy red; very beautiful; a constant and profuse bloomer; ver)'fragrant. Price, 15 cents each; two-year-old plants, 40 cents each, M'LLE. HELENE OAMBIER—New Yellow Hybrid Tea Rose. Color at first a salmon rose, varying to apricot yellow at base of petal^, changing to rosy flesh with deeper center in the open flowers. The plant is a robust, bushy grower,with erect stems and beautiful bronzy green foliage'; a prolific bloomer; flowers, large,verv double.with full, high centers. Price, 20 cents each; Targe, two-year-old plants, 40 cents each. MURIEL GRAHAM—New Tea Rose. This superb Rose is from that favorite variety Catherine Mermet, and is perfectly dis- tinct in color from anything extant, which is a pale cream, faintly blushed rose. The habit of growth is similar to its parent. Sent out by Alexander Dickens & Sons, Belfast, Ire- land, who consider it one of their best introductions. Well worttt"our best recommendations. Price, 20 cents each, large, two-year-old plants, 50 cents each. PRINCESS VENOSA—A beautiful new Tea Rose. A strong grower, producing a long bud; flower, large, moderatel^^ full and beautifully formed; color, nankeen yellow.with shadings of carmine. A most remarkable combination of colors. Price, 20 cents each; large, two-year-old plants, 50 cents each. MADAME ABEL CH ATE NAY—Hybrid Tea Rose. The cele- brated Rose which the Washington, D. C, society people have used almost exclusively during the past season in their social events. This is a wonderfully strong, healthy growing varietv.withrich, bright foliage. A grand beddingRose, as it is a profuse and continuous bloomer. Flowers, large and full; petals recurved, and of a beautiful creamj' rose, shaded with rose vermilion and tinged with salmon; the base of the petals is very highl)- colored, being a combi- nation of the foregoing shades strongly accentuated. This will undoubtedly make a fine garden Rose because of its substance and hardiness. The flowers are borne on long stems, so that it is exceedingly^ well adapted for vases of cut flowers. Price, 20 cents each, large, two-year- old plants, 40 cents each. "CLARA WATSON," New Hybrid Tea Rose—This is one of the most beautiful winter-flowering roses of the larg- est size, very fragrant, and fine form. The predominat- ing color is salmon pink, blended with blush pink on the outer edge ot the petals, with just enough yellow at the base to bring out the whole, makingit a very artistic and distinct flower. It is a very strong grower and very fine very free flowering, and must become a general favorite. It is also a grand summer-bedding Rose, good strong grower, fine substance and free bloomer. Price, 15 cents; large two-year-old plants, 40 cents. PRINCESS ALICE DE MONACA—We give our best in- dorsement to this charming, new, ever-blooming Rose, whose merits are of the highest order. It is a strong, up- right grower, with clean, healthy foliage. The flowers are produced in wonderful profusion on long straight shoots, are large in size, double, of fine form and deli- ciously fragrant. The coloring is exquisite—a creamy white on the outside of petals, with a faint, rosy blush on the edges; as the flowers expand they disclose a charm- ing shade of pink, deepening to rich blush. The flowers are borne in remarkable profusion throughout the grow- ing season. This is a grand Rose and one that will give splendid satisfaction. Price, 15 cents each; large two- year-old plants. 35 cents each. PRISCILLA—New, white, hardy ever-blooming rose. What has been so long desired, viz., a pure white, hardy ever-blooming Rose, has been at length obtained in this grand variety, It has all the requisites of a perfect gar- den Rose—siAstance, size, fragrance, hardiness, vigor, and profusion of bloom, rivaling the best of the monthly ever-blooming Roses in the latter all-important quality. It is a sport from the well-known and much valued Rose, Maman Cochet. inheriting all its fine qualities—full and firm buds, long and pointed, the ideal shape for a rose, and keeping a lone: time when cut. We can not speak too highly of it. Wherever fine Roses are grown, or a hardy white ever-blooming Rose is wanted, thePriscilla should be planted. Price, iScents each; large two-year-old plants 50 cents each. FRANCOIS DUEREUIL—A new red Tea Rose of unusual merit, with fine, large and double flowers, wbicli in color
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are equal to the best of our deep-colored Hybrid Perpet- uals. The flowers are large, very full and double, with thick, regularly arranged petals. Color, deep crimson with velvetv shadings, rich and fine; buds of large size and of beautiful shape for cutting. A grand bedder, of strong free growth and profuse bloomer. Price, 15 cents each; large, two-year-old plants, 35 cents each. SOUV. DE PRESIDENT CARNOT—Nothing we have seen is so fascinatingly attractive, or that will compare with the beautiful flowers, which are very large, perfectly double, exquisitely shaped, with heavy, thick, shell-like petals. Superb buds, long and pointed, and borne on long, stiff stems, and are produced inremarkable profus- ion. The color is new and refined, a verj' delicate shade of rosy blush, shaded a trifle deeper at the center of flower. The fragrance is deliciously refreshing and charming. The plant grows strong and sturdy, and has no weak spot in its constitution. The foliage is unus- ually large and handsome. In everj'way it is one of the handsomest of-Roses, and perfect in its graceful form and finish. Price, 15 cents each; large two-year-plants, 40 cents each. BARONESS BERQE—A bewitching new Tea Rose, Full to the center,with plump, chubby buds that are as dainty and prett)^ as can be for wearing, Colors odd and almost indescribable, catching the eye at once, outer petals a tender lemon white, passing to lilac rose on 'the reflexed edges, which overlap each other regularly and just enough to glimpse the yellow shade below. The center curls into a pretty-cup shape, and is lighted b)' tints of apricot and soft rose pink. Price, 15 cents each; large two- year-old plants, 35 cents each. ENCHANTRESS—New Tea Rose. Flowers creamy white, slightly tinted with buff in the center; large, full and globular, the petals slightly recurved at the edges; of vigorous growth, fine foliage and great freedom in blooming. A most distinct and effective Rose for decora- tive purposes, and splendid for pot culture and late aut- umn and winter blooming. Received a silver Banskian Medal and an award of merit. Universally admired by all. We can not recommend this splendid variety too highly. Price, 15 cents each; large two-year-old plants, 40 cents each. VIRGINIA—This elegant Rose is the result of a cross be- tween Safrano and Marechal Niel. We consider it one of the most promising Tea Roses of modern introduction. It is a vigorous grower, of bushy habit, the blooms are large and double, finely formed, lasting and of excellent sub- stance, often rem'aining on the bush until dried up. Col- or, a light vellow, with a tinge of saffron at the center and reverse of petals a pinkish cast. Perfume a delicate and delightful Tea scent. Price, 15 cents each; large, two estr old pleintsi 36 cents each.

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