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Romance among the Roses is sprinkled thickly through this chapter, and here we share 

 with you the best fruits of our pursuit after the most charming, most fascinating, and, at 

 the same time, the most gratifying of the World's Rose Debutantes. 



The beginnings of our experiences with some of these novelties date back perhaps a 

 dozen years. On pages 8 and 9 of this Catalog you will see that we not only maintain here 

 a school for young Roses where all sorts of novelties are tested and trained for better con- 

 duct, but w r e do much more than that. We are persistently on the lookout for, and have 

 coming to our testing-grounds here a constant succession of new candidates, each one to 

 be placed under observation, and finally presented to the American people, if and when found 

 fit and fine. 



Yes, you guess right; that testing-ground is the most interesting spot in our entire 

 Nursery — even more so than the Rose-garden itself. But our interests and activities, 

 while focusing there, also reach out to dozens of testing-grounds of Rose-originators whose 

 work in Europe is going forward so notably. 



Indeed leading hybridizers of Europe have made many contributions to these pages. 

 Personal inspection in their test-gardens and in the national testing-grounds of France and 

 England, Germany and Spain, on recent comprehensive trips abroad have given us the 

 "close-ups" on the best of Europe's latest sorts. For many of these we have the great honor 

 of being the introducers into the United States. 



Unless otherwise stated, all here have come successfully through our own Star Standard 

 tests. 



They are described as we have seen them, not as single plants, but as we have grown them 

 by the hundreds and thousands. Try a few novelties this year. There are few thrills in 

 gardening more entrancing than watching new Roses unfold. 



4 C.-P. Selected Novelty if Star Roses $5 



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•CHARLES P. KILHAM. Pernet. A perfected 

 Mme. Edouard Herriot, a Rose which, while re- 

 taining Herriot's brilliant coral-red and orange 

 colors, has a better form, more petals, borne on 

 long stems for cutting, a better habit with larger 

 and more persistent foliage. It is also slightly 

 fragrant. The plant is somewhat divergent in 

 growth, which improves its utility as a bedding 

 variety. $1.50 each. 



•MARI DOT. Pernet. Unique in color. The 

 pointed bud is deep apricot, darkened with 

 orange. It opens slowly to a double, regularly 

 imbricated bloom of a uniform apricot without 

 shading, showing golden stamens on maroon 

 filaments in the center. The perfume is delight- 

 ful, with a sweetness all its own. In Philadelphia, 

 June 12, 1929, the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society awarded the Robert C. Wright Rose 

 Medal to Mari Dot. $1.50 each. 



•JOYOUS CAVALIER. H.T. The plant is 

 vigorous and bushy, rather tall-growing, almost 

 shrub-like, somewhat in the order of Gruss an 

 Teplitz. Its blooms, generally solitary, standing 

 erect on long stems for cutting; are semi-double, 

 of a jolly red that does not blue. Delicately fra- 

 grant. The continuous bloom on the plants in our 

 fields proves this an ideal variety for group plant- 

 ing where a bright color is desired throughout 

 the season. $1.50 each. 



•LI BURES. Pernet. The bud first shows ma- 

 roon, gradually lightened with orange and yellow 

 as the flower expands. As a moving panorama, 

 these tints blend into new ones until toward the 

 end when the outer petals assume a velvety 

 purple-crimson while the center becomes old-rose 

 suffused with yellow. Distinctly fragrant. Plant 

 vigorous, upright, and bushy, with strong, holly- 

 Iike, disease-resistant foliage. $1.50 each. 



Please ask for Offer No. 26. One each of the 4 Novelty Roses offered above, $5 delivered, 



or 3 above sets, 12 in all, for $13.50 



PRICES Price after each description. See order sheet for low delivery cost. 



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