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| Keywords: Wholesale price list of requisites for florists and market gardeners (16590300579).jpg 6 <br> PETER HENDERSON CO NEW YORK WHOLESALE CATALOGUE PLANTS <br> A NEW RACE OF <br> Hardy <br> Running <br> Roses <br> Hybrids of Rosa Wichuraiana <br> The Memorial Rose <br> AMONG the many new forms of <br> Roses introduced of late and <br> the present decade has been <br> most prolific in new classes we <br> believe that none will outrival <br> these in general usefulness We <br> had the pleasure of first call- <br> ing wide public attention <br> to the merit of one of the <br> parents of these Roses / e <br> the Memorial Rose Rosa <br> Wichuraiana and so it is <br> with added pleasure that we <br> announce the advent of these <br> new Roses They retain the <br> prostrate habit of the Wichu- <br> raiana with its distinctive <br> charm of foliage and its <br> vigor of growth ; in fact <br> they are if anything <br> stronger than the parent <br> We saw them growing on a <br> gravelly terrace where it <br> would seem no Rose would <br> find sufficient sustenance to <br> grow and yet they made <br> from 15 to 18 feet of growth <br> in one season We predict <br> unbounded popularity for <br> these whether for use in <br> the private garden in the <br> cemetery or in large public <br> parks for covering rocky <br> slopes embankments etc <br> The double varieties will <br> unquestionably make grand <br> pot plants for the green- <br> house or conservatory and <br> can also be used as climbers <br> and we believe that the <br> white variety will eventually <br> take rank with the Crimson <br> Rambler and form a splen- <br> did contrast to it <br> THE DOUBLE <br> WHITE MEMORIAL <br> ROSE No 3 in cut <br> Manda's Triumph <br> This is the gem of the collection <br> and may well be called the Double <br> Memorial Rose as it preserves <br> the color of the parent with its <br> characteristics of growth and foli <br> age but the flowers are double and very <br> fragrant They are produced in clusters <br> of from twelve to eighteen flowers on <br> each cluster on small side shoots liter- <br> ally covering the plant and standing well <br> above the foliage giving a very graceful <br> appearance This variety will be valua- <br> ble for all purposes whether for trailing on the ground <br> for cemetery use growing on fences and gate posts <br> boundary walls or as specimens in pots or tubs <br> For prices see end of list next column <br> SOUTH ORANGE <br> PERFECTION No 4 in cut <br> This variety is similar to the preced- <br> ing in growth It has double flowers <br> soft blush changing to white about <br> one and one-half inches in diameter <br> The blossoms are if anything more <br> freely produced than on the preced- <br> ing and are more double perfect <br> rosettes in shape This is a very <br> pretty variety and entirely distinct <br> from the others <br> This variety shows undoubted <br> traces of descent from the Sweet <br> Brier both in the color and the shape <br> of the blossom and in its exquisite <br> fragrance The single flowers are <br> over two inches in diameter a bright <br> rich pink with a large silvery-white <br> centre and orange red stamens pro- <br> ducing a most charming effect <br> Price for any of the new Roses <br> on this page 2 year old plants <br> from 5 and 6 Inch pots 40c each <br> 4 00 per doz Plants from 3 inch <br> pots 1 50 doz 10 00 per 100 <br> COPY OtlT 1898 BY PETER HENDERSON CO 45172990 160879 84546 Page 6 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/45172990 1898 Henderson Peter Co ; Stumpp Walter Co New York N Y Biodiversity Heritage Library Wholesale price list of requisites for florists and market gardeners / 1897-1913 Garden Stories Catalogs Henderson Peter Co New York New York State Nurseries Horticulture Nursery stock Seed industry and trade Seeds Stumpp Walter Co New York N Y Mertz Library The New York Botanical Garden bhl page 45172990 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/45172990 bhlGardenStories Flowers Roses BHLinbloom henderson peter co new york new york state nurseries horticulture stumpp walter co new york n y mertz library the new york botanical garden bhlgardenstories bhlinbloom Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-03-10 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/16590300579 2015-08-24 21 53 53 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Photos uploaded from Flickr by FĂŚ using a script Wholesale price list of requisites for florists and market gardeners 1898 | ||||
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