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II.T. (Alain Meilland) Plant Pat. App. For. This is one of 

 the most exciting roses to come along in years. I lighly 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, I he bloom is a happy com- 

 binatioo 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 

 (he reverse sides hut (he (ones are lighter. The result all the 

 way through from hud to open flower is beautiful, colorful, 

 exciting, interesting. Traviata in the fully open bloom is at 

 its best. The plant is medium to (all. 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 attraeth e still. Traviata is upright and shapely 

 — look r ;ood in its own right. Disease-resistant and vigorous, 

 it, adds virtue to virtue. 82.50 ea.; 3 or more, 82.20 ea. 



(Editor's Note: In originating Traviata and Swarthmore, it 

 looks as though the young French rose hybridizer, Alain Meilland, 

 is tcclt on his way toward the success achieved by his father, the 

 late Francis Meilland.) 



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(Mfa H.T. (Tantaul Plant Pat. 1969. This is another in the line of fine roses 

 *M&? 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 4J/> to 5-inch flowers — fragrant flowers — which 

 last lone; and hold their color. Notable, too, is the 

 ~ »*>■ — bush which has masses of good, exceptionally 



B^^ disease-resistant foliage. It is heavily branched, 



vigorous and tall growing (3 feet in temperate areas 

 — 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, 83.10 ea. 



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