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The Old Roses offer garden delights unobtainable elsewhere. Rich in their heritage 
of virility and perfume and tradition they are, like true and tried friends, like old wine 
or old masterpieces, treasures well worth preserving and enjoying. What greater delight 
rare, leafy fragrance of the Eglantine—two intriguing odors that no other flower can 
give? 
The following list of the Old Fashioned Roses will repay careful perusal; it offers a 
selection of these rare old roses quite unequalled in the west; it includes some treasures not 
obtainable elsewhere in America. The true tea roses, all of them persistent everbloomers, 
are indicated by the letter "T.” 
The roses offered are all 2-year-old selected plants of first quality. As quantities of 
some varieties are very limited, prompt orders are advised. 
PRICE, unless otherwise stated, by mail prepaid, $1.00 each. (For shipment beyond 
California add 10 cents; if east of the Mississippi 20 cents, to partly pay added shipping 
costs on these large specimens.) 
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AUSTRIAN COPPER (1596)—Single flowers of intense copper-red with old-gold 
center and reverse; vigorous and hardy. 
BANKSIA, White (1807)—Rank, thornless climber with profuse clusters of small, 
double, white, violet-scented flowers. 
BEAUTY OF GLAZENWOOD (See Fortune’s Double Yellow). 
BISHOP’S ROSE (1810 )—Rare old "Cabbage” rose of deep carmine, sometimes nearly 
black. $1.50 
BLACK PRINCE (1866)—Hybrid perpetual rose of vigorous habit with large, full, 
cupped flowers of deepest crimson, shaded black; fine fragrance. 
CASTILIAN (Ancient); (The Damask Rose; Rose of Castile; Rose of Babylon) 
—One of the oldest of all roses, originating probably near Damascus, now nearly 
extinct. Planted by the Mission Fathers. Shrub type, continuous bloomer with pale 
pink, double, intensely fragrant flowers of rare charm, followed by long scarlet hips. 
Our’s is the variety from which the true attar of roses is made. $1.50 
CELINE FORESTIER (1860) T —Pale yellow flowers with golden center; very hardy 
tea rose. $1.25 
CHROMATELLA (1843); (Cloth of Gold; The Sherman Rose) —A vigorous 
everblooming climber, with disease proof foliage and double fawn-yellow fragrant 
flowers in profusion. $1.50 
(With each we enclose a copy of Mr. Lester’s copyrighted "True Story of the Sher¬ 
man Rose.”) 
COUPE d’ HEBE (about 1840) —One of the rarest of the old Bourbon roses; silvery 
pink, cup form flowers, very distinct, beautiful and fragrant. $2.00 
DUCHESS de BRABANT (18 57) T —A greatly loved old tea rose with splendid quali¬ 
ties of hardiness, most continuous bloom, much fragrance and distinct tulip-shaped 
pink flowers; vigorous grower attaining shrub form. 
EGLANTINE (Ancient Species Rose) —The true English sweetbriar, favorite of 
Shakespeare and his times; hardy, vigorous, easily grown; ideal as specimen or for 
hedge; profuse single pink flowers followed by brilliant, lasting, scarlet hips; foliage 
deliciously apple-scented filling the garden air with rare fragrance. 
