ROSE LETTER —Continued 
(Floribundas continued) 
SMILES (Nicolas 1937) - A lovely variety deserving the name. 
It "smiles" at you at all times. The color is brilliant 
salmon pink. The flowers are semi-double about 3 inches 
across, and are produced in great masses all the time. They 
are superb for obtaining a pink effect, as they hang on well 
and lighten only a few shades as they fade. The plants are 
medium growing, branching and have handsome foliage. The 
variety was much admired in test gardens this year. 
RONSARD (Gaujard 1937) - A plant of great interest. In the 
first place, it is a Rugosa Hybrid, and is the Rose referred 
to in Dr. Nicolas' Rose Odyssey, having once had the name 
Rugosa Nicolas. The bud and flower, true Capucine coloring 
with a flash of vermilion on the inside and Nanking yellow 
on the outside of the petals. The bush is vigorous and the 
foliage hard and resistant. Nature has decided to protect 
this exotic coloring and has given us thorniest of thorny 
stems. In spite of this it will sooner or later find a 
place in most gardens for it keeps flaunting its brilliance 
at all times, carrying clusters of buds or flowers most 
every day of the season. 
NEW GARDEN ROSES TO BE FEATURED DURING SPRING 1938 
. ALICE HARDING (Mallerin, France) Pat. No. 202 - The perfected Souvenir de 
Claudius Pernet for years the goal of all hybridizers. Color is rich sunflower 
yellow uniform and without shading, on which the sun has but little effect. An 
exhilarating perfume adds to its beauty. Excellent cut flower but also an orna¬ 
mental garden variety because of its steady production. This rose was dedicated to 
Mrs. Edward Harding of New Jersey by the French National Horticultural Society as a 
gesture of appreciation for Mrs. Harding's interest in French hybridizers of all 
flowers. The Society opened a contest and the winning rose is a product of Ch. 
Mallerin, the great French Hybridizer. Gold Medal of the American Rose Society. 
JEAN COTE (Gaujard, France) Pat. App. for - An opulent and fragrant rose, large 
and full to the center but of gracefully imbricated form. Clear orange apricot 
assuming toward the end an overcast of light carmine. Not a fading but an inter¬ 
esting mutation of tint. A medium growing plant producing steadily throughout the 
season. It is superb even in midsummer and when established it waxes large and 
vigorous. The color is arresting. Horticulturally it is also interesting in that 
it is pure succession in the famous Pernet-Ducher strain and was developed by 
M. Pernet's successor Jean Gaujard. 
ROME GLORY (Aicardi, Italy) Pat. App. for - A red Dame Edith Helen but of 
larger size and opening well in all weather. Heavy ovoid bud, crimson, evolving in 
a large very double bloom of superb form. The color graduates to a lighter tint, 
toward the center. Very perfumed. Long stems for cutting. Open blooms have been 
likened to perfect greenhouse American Beauties. Extraordinarily robust and hardy 
plant. Was officially selected to memorialize the third millenium of the founding 
of the Eternal City by Romulus and Remus, who, abandoned, says the legend, had been 
fed and protected by a she-wolf. 
