. The Geo H. Mellen Co. Innisfallen Greenhouses. Nurseries (Horticulture) Ohio Urbana Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. E BELOW offer six of the best known varieties of Climbing or Pillar Roses, and have arranged them in pairs, which in our opinion, present the finest contrast when planted near together or on each side of a doorway. Their beautiful foiiage and profusion of bloom make them invaluable for large trellises, old walls, arbors.^sides of buildings, trees, etc. Perfectly hardy anywhere, and rank, thrifty growers, reaching tw


. The Geo H. Mellen Co. Innisfallen Greenhouses. Nurseries (Horticulture) Ohio Urbana Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. E BELOW offer six of the best known varieties of Climbing or Pillar Roses, and have arranged them in pairs, which in our opinion, present the finest contrast when planted near together or on each side of a doorway. Their beautiful foiiage and profusion of bloom make them invaluable for large trellises, old walls, arbors.^sides of buildings, trees, etc. Perfectly hardy anywhere, and rank, thrifty growers, reaching twenty feet or more. w The Great New Rose, CRIMSON RAMBLER. This is the most decided novelty in Roses we have had in years. Just from Japan. It has been a source of wonder and admiration wherever exhibited. The plant is a vigorous grower, making shoots from 8 to 10 feet long in a season. A charming Pillar Rose; for covering trellises or buildings there is nothing finer. The flowers are grown in great pyram- idal panicles, each carrying 30 to 40 blooms; the individual flowers are 1 to V/2 inches in diameter, and remain in perfect condition on the plants for a long time. The color is a bright, vivid crimson, showing none of the purplish tint so commonly seen in crimson roses. Price, 15 cents each ; large, two-year- old plants. 30 cents each. wooderfa^ ^ahl-gko-se EMPRESS OF CHINA. As a companion to the Crimson Rambler we offer the wonderful new climbing Rose, Empress of China. This is a new Climbing Rose, of the greatest ex- cellence. It commences to bloom in May, and is loaded with its elegant blooms until December. Think of it 1 There is no other Rose like it that will bloom for so long a time. This has been the great objection to climb- ing Roses ,that they bloom once and then are done. But here we have a Rose that blooms continuously for over seven months of the year. It is simply wonderful. "When it first opens, the flowers are a beautiful red, but soon turn to a lovely l


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