ALL-AMERICA FOR 1967 



{left) Hybrid Tea. (The House of 

 Meilland.) Plant Pat. 2597. Indiana 

 is one of the brightest red roses you've ever seen. 

 It's a true red, a soUd, bright cardinal-red that 

 holds its brilliance in the garden as well as in a 

 bouquet. The bright red buds open to high-cen- 

 tered, fully double blooms of excellent form and 

 profile. The large blooms of 35 to 40 petals are 

 held firmly upright on strong stems of medium 

 length. Indiana's colorful flowers are set so close 

 to the compact, well-branched bush that they 

 seem to create a floating rich tapestry of green 

 and red. The foliage is heavy, large, deep green 

 and plentiful, covering the medium tall, strong 

 plant in a solid mass. Fragrance is light but pleas- 

 ing. An excellent rose worthy of the distinguished 

 state whose name it bears and whose 150th An- 

 niversary it honbrs. 



$3.50 ea.— 3 or more, $3.10 ea. 



What 



Means 



The AARS seal is attached to every 

 rose plant receiving an All-America 

 Rose Selections Award and is your 

 assurance of quality and performance 

 in garden roses. It means that these 

 roses were grown and thoroughly 

 tested along with hundreds of other kinds in 25 official 

 test gardens strategically located in all parts of the 

 country. It means, too, that they were found to be not 

 only the outstanding roses tested, but kinds truly 

 worthy of being offered to American gardeners. 



Actually, it can take from 8 to 10 years to produce 

 an All-America Rose Selections Winner, and hun- 

 dreds and hundreds of hours by all kinds of rose ex- 

 perts all over the country. This time includes ex- 

 haustive tests by the hybridizer before he submits the 

 rose for others to test, at least three years of inde- 

 pendent testing, and several years to grow the winners 

 for the ultimate consumer. 



{lejt) Grandiflora. (Swim and 

 ry Armstrong.) Plant Pat. App. 

 /^^ For. This new Grandiflora is outstanding for 

 *^' lovely and unusual pink color of the buds and 

 flowers; for the exceptional vigor of the rounded, 

 beautifullyfoliaged plant, and for the great quantities 

 of bloom which it carries. The urn-shaped bud is 

 larger than average and the double flower is made 

 up of 25 to 30 large petals which recurve gracefully 

 and give a fully double appearance throughout its 

 life. The flower is almost a bi-color — light, clear 

 pink on the face of the petal and deeper, reddish 

 pink on the reverse — a most lively, cheerful shade 

 of pink. Typical of a Grandiflora, this free-blooming 

 variety carries most of its flowers in clusters of good 

 stem length, but some of them singly, A tall, vigor- 

 ous grower with excellent foliage. You will want 

 to plant this rose in the "back row" where it can 

 show off its masses of bloom. 



$4 ea. — 3 or more, $3.55 ea. 



