Website/Catalog  (1896)  Page(s) 4.  Includes photo(s).
 
New Roses of Special Beauty.
Everblooming Hardy Climbing Yellow Tea Rose, Douglas' Climax.
This Rose originated with a Mr. Douglas, of the Congressional greenhouses, at Washington, D. C., more than 35 years ago.  He gave a lady friend a plant of it which has successfully stood the winters of more than a quarter of a century unprotected, and from which our stock was propagated last season.  Douglas' Climax is a tea scented, perfectly hardy yellow everblooming rampant climber, with beautiful large, glossy leaves.  The buds are long and of good size, produced singly and in clusters of 40 and 50.  The color is a sulphur-yellow, and the buds resemble those of La Pactole [sic], having the true Tea fragrance.  Twenty-four hundred buds were cut from the original plant (which covered the whole gable end of a large house) in a single day.  This is the only perfectly hardy everblooming yellow Tea Rose in existence, and we control the entire accessible stock.  It is just the Rose everybody is looking for, and to induce all to grow it, we offer strong plants for only 25 cents each, 5 for $1, 12 for $2.