THE SPARKLING 
TRAVIATA 
H.T. (Alain Meilland) Plant Pat. App. For. This is one of 
the most exciting roses to come along in years. Highly colorful 
—highly fragrant—highly appealing in all those respects 
which make a rose popular. High-centered in form and com- 
posed of 30 or more large petals, the bloom is a happy com- 
bination of red and white tones. The outer part of the petals 
is bright red. It blends into white or cream on the inner part 
and at the petal bases. The same color arrangement holds on 
the reverse sides but the tones are lighter. The result all the 
way through from bud to open flower is beautiful, colorful, 
exciting, interesting. Traviata in the fully open bloom is at 
its best. The plant is medium to tall, and produces strong 
canes each holding one or more flowers. Foliage is excellent, 
too—well-shaped, thick, medium-green in color. Here is 
another instance where fine plant form makes an otherwise 
good rose more attractive still. Traviata is upright and shapely 
—look~ good in its own right. Disease-resistant and vigorous, 
it adds virtue to virtue. $2.50 ea.; 3 or more, $2.20 ea. 
© TRAVIATA 
(Editor's Note: In originating Traviata and Swarthmore, it 
looks as though the young French rose hybridizer, Alain Meilland, = 
is well on his way toward the success achieved by his father, the 
late Francis Meilland.) CANDY STRIPE (p. 64) SINCERA 
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TROPICAN AspriLiIANT 1963 All-America 
& H.T. (Tantau) Plant Pat. 1969. This is another in the line of fine roses 
A8BS developed by Mathias Tantau of Germany. Winner of the All-America 
award and the City of Portland Gold Certificate, as well as many European 
honors, Tropicana is certain of success—certain to please you—in your garden. 
Its color is bright, intense, eye-filling—an orange-red with enormous appeal. 
Every cane bears one or more 44% to 5-inch flowers—fragrant flowers—which 
last long and hold their color. Notable, too, is the ] 
— bush which has masses of good, exceptionally 
5 disease-resistant foliage. It is heavily branched, 
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—up to 5 and 6 feet in warmer parts). This very 
fine and highly beautiful rose is a practical necessity 
in any modern garden of roses. $3.50 ea.; 3 or 
more, $3.10 ea. 
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