r OICE OF the little garden of the Harvard wizard where 

 he produced, by mating many parent roses, at 

 last an offspring so perfect? One grandparent 

 of the "Dawson" is the "Wichuriana" from 

 Japan, the other the Chinese "Multiflora." 

 Their offspring mated with "General Jac- 

 queminot," and they are the parents of the 

 "Dawson." 



Ask your beautiful Irish "Killarney," or 

 your gorgeous "American Beauty," the story 

 of their descent, and they will point to a line of 

 ancestry reaching back in known history to 

 the Crusades. Thibault, the redoubtable Cru- 

 sader, brought the first of those ancestors 

 from Damascus and gave it a home in the soil 

 of gentle Provence, France. There a son of 

 Henry III of England found it growing, carried 

 it home, and as Earl of Lancaster took it for 

 his device. Rival claimants to the English 

 ' throne adopted it as their emblem, Red Rose of 

 Lancaster and White Rose of York warring, 

 until Henry VII of the Red took Elizabeth of 

 the White as consort. Thus the rose brought 



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