The Lester Rose Gardens 
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Watsonville, California 
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Two T{ew Tgses of Outstanding Quality! 
We recommend these two New Patented Roses, selected from a host of highly advertised novelties this season, because in cur 
opinion they offer extraordinary qualities not elsewhere obtainable. The plants we offer you are of ex/ra large size and remark¬ 
ably fine specimens; and our four page Rose Guide, for their culture, goes with them. For a real rose thrill in your garden this 
season try one or both of these. | 
The Spsctacular’^Pgse’^Rgnsard I 
The T{ew Spanish Sigaora 
( PATENT APPLIED FOR) 
Here is a fine bedding rose for open garden culture that in addition to the other 
necessary good qualities of a rose for that purpose—everblooming, disease resistant, good 
foliage and fine cutting value—possesses the most amazing combination of brilliant colors 
of any rose, old or modern. Do 
you know the rose Queen Alex¬ 
andra, nearest approach to Ron- 
sard until this season? Well, 
Ronsard is a glorified Queen 
Alexandra with more intense 
coloring. The bud is a brilliant 
gold-yellow but as it opens the 
petals gradually fold back and 
reveal their inside color which 
is an intense vermilion. As the 
flower develops it presents the 
thrilling combination color ef¬ 
fect of vermilion and old-gold 
which marks this new rose cre¬ 
ation as the last word in hy¬ 
bridized color effect. The rose 
stands out in your garden so 
vividly as to dominate its sur¬ 
roundings and create an "eye- 
trap” which will instantly com¬ 
mand the enthusiastic attention 
of your garden visitors. It gets 
these intense color effects from 
one of its rose ancestors, the 
Austrian Copper, which we of¬ 
fer among our Old Roses else¬ 
where in this catalogue. 
iili 
(PLANT PATENT No. 2dl) 
This rose is the last word in a healthy, everblooming garden rose that possesses those 
warm colorings associated with the land of its origin, Spain, and by ample testing it has 
been proved to be one of the most satisfactory garden roses, for average garden conditions, 
that have come to us from 
the hybridist in recent 
years. 
Signora has an unus¬ 
ually long bud of warm 
sienna color that develops 
on a strong, clean stem, 
to a shade called mandar¬ 
in, a blending of orange, 
copper and vermilion. The 
petals have good substance 
so the flower keeps well 
and as it grows on un¬ 
usually long stems, one 
flower to the stem, it is 
ideal for cutting.The rose 
is a vigorous grower, taller 
than many, and it has re¬ 
markably handsome fo¬ 
liage. It is a Gold Medal 
rose, well suited for ex¬ 
hibition purposes, but we 
recommend it because of 
its good behavior in the 
garden, its usefulness as a 
cut flower, its all-season 
blooming habit, and its 
most satisfying combina¬ 
tion of rich, warm colors. 
SELECTED SPECIMEN 2-YEAR PLANTS, each $1.50; 12 Plants for $15.00 
SELECTED SPECIMEN 2-YEAR PLANTS, each $1.5 0; 12 Plants for $15.00 
