For a Joyfui 
Tropicana 
>) Hybrid Tea. (Tantau.) Once in awhile there’s a rose 
* that immediately attracts world-wide attention. 
Tropicana is such a rose—a true classic. It wins praise and 
prizes wherever it goes and was appropriately called Super 
Star in Europe. 
The bloom is a true bright orange, intense and stunning. 
Long graceful buds and 4% to S-inch, double blooms with 
handsome, high-pointed shape and very pleasant fragrance. 
The luminous, lasting color and good stems make it marvel- 
ous to cut. The plant is quite tall and bushy, with shiny 
green, healthy foliage. 
Tropicana has everything—vigor, excellent foliage, good 
fragrance and especially fine intense orange color. Plant 
Pat. 1969. 
$4.50 ea.—3 or more $4.20 ea. 
A 
PORTRAIT 
TROPICANA 
Portrait 
>») Hybrid Tea. (Meyer.) This utterly lovely 
* pink rose puts on a great show. Even one 
plant is a spectacle, and several together steal 
the scene. 
Masses of urn-shaped, rich pink buds burst 
into large blooms edged with a deep satiny 
blush. Sometimes light gold tones wash over 
the open bloom, while 
the outside of the petals 
is an even pink. Flow- 
ers are beautifully high 
centered, opening to a 
diameter of 4 inches 
and more, with plenty 
of petals rolled back to 
form a delicate silhou- 
ette. Delicious tea fra- 
grance envelops — the 
bloom. 
Cutting stems of me- 
dium length on a tall, 
robust plant. Very vigorous, producing quan- 
tities of flowers all season. Perfect to cut. 
Hardy and practically disease-free. 
~Portrait, the 1972 AARS winner, was the 
winner in our garden too,” says one grower. 
“It got to be 6 ft. tall and it bloomed continu- 
ously throughout the summer and_ fall.” 
Delicious perfume. A “carefree” rose. 
Portrait was created by an amateur 
hybridizer—Carl Meyer of Cincinnati, who 
by trial and error discovered which roses 
make promising parents. After years of study 
and experiment, he was rewarded with an AIl- 
America Award for Portrait. Plant Pat. 3097. 
$3.90 ea.—3 or more, $3.65 ea. 
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