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This Year's New Hybrid -Tea Roses— Continued 



Introductions of the Rose World's Most Noted Specialists 



Lady Leslie (McGredy, 1929). Some modern critics lament the 

 absence of fragrance at the expense of vivid colors, but in the 

 beautifully formed good sized flowers of Lady Leslie we have a 

 combination of sweetest fragrance and brilliancy in coloring. In 

 the early stages the flowers are rosy scarlet which, as they de- 

 velop, passes to scarlet-carmine suffused with saffron yellow on a 

 yellow base, a warm glowing color combination. The plant is of 

 ideal bedding type with free upright bushy growth and healthy 

 dark foliage. Certificate of Merit National Rose Society of 

 England. $2.50 each. 



Marion Cran (McGredy, 1927). The color combination is won- 

 derful. In the young stage the color is deep buttercup-yellow, 

 margined and flushed cerise and rosy-scarlet. As the flower 

 opens the outside of the petals retain their color, while the inner 

 side opens a brilliant geranium scarlet flushed and veined orange 

 and yellow; as the flowers age the color changes to a deep cerise 

 on bright rosy-scarlet flushed buttercup-yellow. The whole 

 flower glows and has a wonderful sheen. The flowers are full, of 

 nice form, and medium to fairly large in size. The habit is 

 bushy, free, and upright; one of the freest and most perpetual 

 flowering garden and bedding Roses. $1.50 each. 



May Wettern (Alex. Dickson & Sons, 1928). A magnificently 

 formed bud and flower of moderate fullness and artistic coloring. 

 The flowers are composed of immense, deep, wide petals of very 

 solid texture, their formation making a beautifully built long bud 

 and high pointed flower, in which the inner face of the petals 

 evolves from a bright salmon pink in the bud to deep flesh pink, 

 then to bright pink in the more developed flower; the outer side 

 passes from deep rose to rosy pink and finally to bright rose; the 

 blending of these tones creating a wonderful color harmony, 

 very free and sweet scented. Gold Medal English Rose Society. 

 $1.50 each. 



J. Otto Thilow (Verschuren, 1927). A rich glowing rose-pink 

 of exceptional merit with long pointed buds, as the flowers 

 expand, the petals reflex forming a beautiful large double high 

 centred flower. $1.00 each. 



James Gibson (McGredy, 1928). A glorious glowing 

 crimson-scarlet with velvety sheen, imparting a lustrous 

 radiance to the large, full, beautifully formed flowers of 

 which every bloom develops to perfection. Its habit of 

 growth is as near perfect as could be desired, being free, 

 bushy, upright and vigorous and the flowers which are 

 borne profusely all the season, are carried erect on long 

 stems with good disease resistant foliage. A brilliant Rose 

 of exceptional beauty. $2.50 each. 



Jules Gaujard (Pernet-Ducher, 1928). Distinct and beau- 

 tiful, the large, well-formed double flowers on first opening 

 are of a glistening cochineal crimson which, as they fully 

 develop, passes to a pretty shade of orange-rose. It is of 

 strong, vigorous, branching habit, very free flowering and a 

 variety that we are convinced will become a greatly admired v 

 garden Rose. $1.50 each. 



Lady Barnby (Alex. Dickson & Sons, 1930). Another beau- 

 tiful Dickson Rose that will not be distributed by the orig- 

 inators in Europe until the middle of June. We feel fortunate 

 in being in position to offer a limited stock of strong plants for — 

 delivery this spring. It produces splendidly formed flowers 

 very much on the type of Mrs. Henry Bowles a variety that is a 

 favorite with us, it being one of our most reliable bedding vari- 

 eties, but Lady Barnby differs in color, it being a lovely shade 

 of clear rose pink. The plant is of excellent habit, strong vigor- 

 ous growth and very free flowering and sweetly scented. De- 

 livery of this variety will be made after March 1st. $2.50 each. 



Lady Mary Elizabeth (Alex. Dickson & Sons, 1927). A vari- 

 ety of outstanding merit that will be appreciated in the garden 

 and for cutting. The plant is of strong vigorous, upright, 

 branching habit with good healthy foliage and very prolific 

 flowering. The delightfully fragrant flowers are carried on long 

 stiff stems, the buds are very shapely, long pointed, and open to 

 blooms of moderate fullness, with broad deep substantial petals, 

 in color a brilliant deep carmine-pink without shading. $1.50 

 each. 



New Hybrid-Tea Rose, Edith Nellie Perkins. Seepage 141. 



Twenty-five or more Roses will be supplied at 100 rate, which is ten percent less than the each price. 



