OLD-FASHIONED ROSES 
WE HAVE THE MOST COMPLETE LIST IN AMERICA 
THE DAMASK ROSE • Rosa damascena 
The Damask Roses are very hardy and make robust growth, clothed with large, rough, light green leaves. 
Their flowers are very freely produced and are generally borne in trusses of three or more. The fame of their 
powerful fragrance is second only to that of the Cabbage and the Moss Roses. 
Pruning: Flowers are borne on old wood. As the plants age, thin out oldest wood, saving the best 1-year 
and 2-year stems; shorten laterals. 
These Roses are $2.50 each, except where noted 
MARIE LOUISE. Intensely fragrant, medium¬ 
sized, double flowers of very rich deep pink. This 
old and interesting Rose was growing in the gardens 
of Malmaison in 1813. 
MME. HARDY. (Hardy, 1832.) The flowers are 
pure white, occasionally delicately tinged with 
flesh-pink. They are cup-shaped, large and full. 
Most beautiful and fragraTTt of the Damasks. 
PROFESSEUR EMILE PERROT. (E. Turbat & 
Co., 1931.) Flower semi-double, very fragrant, 
soft pink, useful for perfume industry. 
(Described by Monardes, 1551) 
old Rose is said to 
have appeared in an English garden 
soon after the Wars of the Roses and 
the historical description said that 
it had irregularly shaped flowers which 
may be pale red or pure white, or part 
red and part white but never striped, 
and that these different flowers might 
appear on the bush at the same time. 
Realizing that the Rose sold as 
York and Lancaster did not meet this description, we 
have, time after time, imported York and Lancaster 
from the most reliable English mirserymen, but the 
result was always the same—we received a striped Rose. 
We had about given up in despair when, finally, a few 
years ago, we received from England a Damask Rose 
which blooms as Monardes 
describes York and Lan¬ 
caster, “some flowers pure 
white, some Damask red 
(which is really a pink), while 
others are part pink and part 
white.” It has the true 
Damask fragrance and we 
feel sure that at last we have 
the true York and Lancaster 
Rose. After seeing this Rose 
in bloom we can readily 
understand how the dis¬ 
coverer of this Rose must 
have felt seeing the emblems 
of the Houses of York and 
Lancaster, not only growing 
on the same plant, but also 
combined in one flower. It 
gave us a thrill and we know 
it will you. 
It appears now that the 
Rose we and other nurserymen 
have been selling as York and 
Lancaster is Rosa Mundi, 
which is an attractive and in¬ 
teresting Rose. Realizing that 
every Rose-lover will want a 
plant of this historical old 
Rose, we have propagated as 
many plants as possible in the 
short time we have had, but 
the supply is far from ade¬ 
quate, so it will be a case of 
first come, first served. 
To avoid disappointment and 
having to wait another year, get 
your order in early. The price is 
$2 per plant. 
DAMAS OFFICINALIS (Damask Rose; R. 
damascena). The original Rose of Damascus, which 
bears double, rose-pink flowers of eighteen petals 
or more and is intensely fragrant. $1 each. 
KAZANLIK (R. damascena trigintipetala). An 
ancient, double, sweet-scented variety of bright 
rosy pink which has been grown for generations 
in the Balkans for the production of attar of Roses. 
YORK AND LANCASTER 
H istory, sentiment, poets, and scribes are all entwined with these old 
Roses, and the fact that we moderns can have in our gardens the Roses so 
loved by the ancients, adds much to their attractiveness. They have that 
sweet and powerful fragrance associated with Roses, but seldom found in our modern 
varieties, colors from the softest to the most vivid, and hardiness and diseiise 
resistance to withstand the coldest climes and roughest handling. 
We have been importing and collecting these Roses for years and feel proud that we 
have been able to save some of these old types for the gardens of America. 
Feeling that they deserved a treatise all to themselves, we have printed a booklet entitled 
“Old-Fashioned Roses,” in which they are all catalogued and described. Sent free on request. 
For complete list of Old-Fashioned Roses refer to our special booklet 
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