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IRELAND HAMPTON. 
(Plant Patent No. 194). 
The rose Ireland Hampton is an oran¬ 
ge-pink hybrid-Pernetiana of the Herri- 
ott strain, though far removed from that 
illustrious progenitor. 
The bush and foliage bear no resem.- 
blance to the bush and foliage of Mme. 
Edouard Herriott. The bush, of upright 
habit, is sturdy, vigorous and productive- 
The effective foliage is disease-resistant 
far beyond the foliage of the usual varie¬ 
ty of that brilliant strain. The wood, 
strange to relate, is as hard as the wood 
of the average hybrid-Tea, thanks to 
that effective foliage. 
The stems are long and the blossom is 
well held. The petalage varies, averag¬ 
ing about thirty petals. The bud is long. 
The blossom is long lasting, carrying a 
delightful fruity fragrance. The blossom 
is habitually cupped, though at rare in¬ 
tervals the petals quill, as with a cactus- 
dahlia. 
The color is the flame-pink of Herriott 
heavily suffused with gold and orange. 
Price, One Dollar per plant : Ten plants for 
Nine Dollars : Delivery Charges prepaid 
(Within the United States). 
The rose Ireland Hampton has 
been tested over a two and three-year 
period in all climatic sections of the Uni¬ 
ted States. It has demonstrated real wor¬ 
th as well as great beauty. In some sec¬ 
tions we find it compared to Mari Dot 
and Rosella Sweet. In others, notably the 
Pacific Northwest, we find it compared 
to Countess Vandal. In others, to Mme. 
Edouard Herriott. In all instances it ap¬ 
pears from the reports that the rose Ire¬ 
land Hampton does not suffer from the 
comparison. Its tincture of Pernetiana 
blood naturally makes it most valuable 
in the less humid sections. 
Ireland Hampton is one of those up¬ 
lifting roses that one goes forth to see 
before breakfast for the good of his soul. 
From the standpoint of bush and foliage, 
the variety is commendable. The blos¬ 
som, viewed on dewy morn, is a vibrant 
thing bespeaking the glory of the Creat¬ 
or when the world was young and untar¬ 
nished. 
GLORIANA 
(To Be Patented) 
The rose Gloriana, a yellow seedling 
of Condesa de Sastago, constitutes a new 
departure in yellows. Its amazing values 
lie within the exact ranges where yellow 
roses have habitually known but weak¬ 
ness. It is available in but limited num¬ 
bers. 
The blossom is shaped like a gardenia, 
or a camellia. When snapped by the 
neck and floated in a bowl, it becomes, in 
effect, a marvelously beautiful water 
lilly. Its brilliant yellow color is held 
with amazing tenacity. When the nights 
t 
become frosty, cerise traceries and shad¬ 
ings add glamour to the rose. The blos¬ 
som is longlasting and is extremely ef¬ 
fective either as a garden decorative or 
as a cut flower. Strangely, it carries 
strong tea fragrance. 
While under test and observation in 
the field and in sundry scattered gar¬ 
dens, destructive late freezes demon¬ 
strated the fact that the upi'ight, vigor¬ 
ous bush of Gloriana is abnormally re¬ 
sistant to the ravages of King Winter. 
Of equal importance, the severe heat 
waves of the last two droughty summers 
in the Southwest brought to light the fact 
that the blossom of Gloriana is appre¬ 
ciably more highly resistant to destruct¬ 
ion by heat than any and all red and 
pink roses that we have ever seen. At 
several times we have seen every pink 
and red blossom in the field burned to a 
crisp. Gloriana, standing hard by, also 
in bloom, showed no trace of burning. 
Yellow roses, from the standpoint of 
both bush and blossom, have habitually 
been tender. Gloriana, from both stand¬ 
points, is as tough as an old boot. Yet 
beautiful no end. 
Price, One Dollar per plant : Ten plants for 
Nine Dollars : Delivery Charges Prepaid. 
(Within the United States). 
After having been observed in 
the field over an extended period, the 
rose Gloriana was sent out one year ago 
for test. The plants went to widely scat¬ 
tered localities. But the rose was new 
and available plants existed in but limi¬ 
ted numbers. It also happened that most 
of the plants available were but one year 
old plants. 
We took it that the results during the 
past summer would provide grounds for 
but a provisional opinion concerning the 
merits and values of the rose in various 
climatic sections. Therefore last autumn 
an appreciable number of two year old 
plants of Gloriana were set aside to be 
sent out for additional test of the variety. 
Such plants as remained available for 
sale were quickly taken on advance or¬ 
ders by rose lovers who had had oppor¬ 
tunity to observe the performance of the 
variety under stress. 
Then Winter struck, roses went to 
sleep, and the reports came in. We faced 
them with a bit of temerity — many of 
those one year old plants had faced tor¬ 
rid conditions throughout a long, long 
summer. 
Those reports sang a sweet lullaby of 
vigor and value, of beauty and appeal, 
in a chorus of unending approbation. So, 
basking in the glow of those reports, we 
decided that no additional plants need 
be sent out for test. The plants that had 
been set aside for that purpose thus be¬ 
came available for dissemination. The 
rose is returned to the list until that limi¬ 
ted supply of two year old plants is 
exhausted. 
We sometimes send out one year old 
plants of our own varieties for test. We 
sell only two year old plants. 
