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(Mme. A. Meilland) Plant Pat. 591 



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THE LOVELIEST FLOWER THAT GROWS 



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Peace is the greatest gatherer of medals and top 

 awards of any flower in history, we believe. In the 

 latest rating of the American Rose Society, it tops 

 all other widely grown Roses by a full 5 percentage 

 points. Yet the highest praise ever given to a Rose 

 was given, oddly enough, by one group of flower show 

 judges who decided it should NOT be "Queen of the 

 Show" one year because, they said, "Anybody can grow 

 beautiful blooms like that, with PEACE!" It is true. 

 Peace does well everywhere and gives its full loveliness 

 to the beginner as well as to the expert Rose grower. 



Peace is "The miracle golden Rose with a sunset in 

 its heart," as one ARS member wrote of it. Peace 

 blooms are the most long lasting of all Hybrid Tea 

 Roses. The buds are golden, with a flash of pink along 

 the petal edges. They open very slowly to joyously 

 big blooms of yellow, pale gold, cream and ivory 

 with a varying flush of pink on the edges of the lightly 

 ruffled petals. Peace Roses vary in color from day to 

 day and from flower to flower but are always beautiful, 

 always with that other-world look of delicacy and 

 dewy freshness. 



Peace is a gardener's Rose. Only those who can 

 watch its glory change and grow from day to day can 

 fully enjoy its full enchantment. They can appreciate 

 best the way those magnificently long, strong stems 

 lift the proud blooms above its wealth of shining, hand- 

 some foliage. The sparkling freshness and ever-chang- 

 ing beauty of the flowers bring a lift to the spirits of 

 almost all who see it. Peace is the one Rose no gar- 

 dener, anywhere, should be without, and the Rose to 

 plant in quantity if space permits. It will reward you. 

 $2.50 ea.; 3 or more, $2.20 ea. 

 Copyright 1955, The Conard-Pyle Co. 3 



FRONT COVER ROSE 



• LOVE SONG. H.T. (Fisher.) Plant Pat. 

 1360. This is our first American-bred offspring of 

 Peace, and a worthy daughter it is! It is an excit- 

 ing big Rose, a great, glowing beauty of radiant, 

 rich, salmon-pink, with brilliant yellow on the 

 lower third of the petals and a lighter yellow re- 

 verse. Even the unopened buds are big and fat, 

 sharply pointed as they break into their first 

 color — deep gold edged with a dark coppery rose. 

 The pointed centers elongate as the buds develop 

 and become more urn-shaped, usually, as the first 

 petals slowly unfold. At this stage, they are yel- 

 low and a deep, coppery salmon-pink. The colors 

 do not fade as the blooms open, but rather appear 

 to become richer as they show more and more of 

 the brilliant, shining salmon-pink. As with its 

 parent, Peace, the full blooms are a glory. 



The plant also resembles that of Peace, sturdy, 

 well-foliaged, with never a weak neck. Blooms 

 come freely, have 35 to 55 petals, and are sweetly 

 fragrant. $2.50 ea.; 3 or more, $2.20 ea. 



4 Thrilling Roses *8-35 



•Chrysler Imperial (see next two pages), 

 •Confidence, •Love Song and •Peace 



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