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What greater garden delight could there be than the penetrating old-time fragrance of the pink 
Castilian rose and the rare, leafy fragrance of the Eglantine,—two intriguing odors no other flowers 
provide? Rich in their heritage of virility and perfume and tradition, the Old Roses are, like true 
and tried friends, like old wine and old masterpieces, treasures well worth preserving and enjoying. 
The list of Old Fashioned roses that follows is but a partial list of what we have, for 
available quantities of some kinds are so limited as to forbid offering generally. But this list will 
repay careful perusal. All stock offered is of 2-year-old selected plants of fine quality. To avoid 
disappointment orders should be placed promptly. 
PRICE, unless otherwise stated, delivered free within the 3rd zone, $1.00 each. 
Beyond that add 10 cents each; if east of the Mississippi, add 20 cents each. 
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AUSTRIAN COPPER (1596)— Sin¬ 
gle flowers of intense copper-red 
with old-gold center and reverse; 
vigorous, hardy, resistant to disease. 
BANKSIA, White (1807) — Rank, 
thornless climber with profuse clus¬ 
ters of small, double, white, violet- 
scented flowers. Strong 1-year plants 
only. 75 c. 
BEAUTY OF GLAZENWOOD (see 
Fortune’s Double Yellow). 
BLACK PRINCE ( 1866) — Hybrid 
perpetual rose of vigorous habit 
with large, full, cupped flowers of 
deepest crimson, shaded black; fine 
fragrance. 
CASTILIAN (Ancient); (The Dam¬ 
ask 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, fol¬ 
lowed by long scarlet hips. Our’s is 
the variety from which the true 
attar of roses is made. $2. 
CHROMATELLA ( 1843); (Cloth of Gold; The Sherman Rose) —A vigorous everblooming 
climber, with disease proof foliage and double fawn-yellow fragrant flowers in profusion. The 
original rose whose romantic love-legend of old Monterey has given to it the name of "The 
Sherman Rose.” $1.5 0. 
With each plant we enclose a copy of Mr. Lester’s copyrighted "True Story of the Sherman 
Rose.” 
EGLANTINE (Ancient Species Rose) —The true English sweetbrier, 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. 
Lester Photo 
The Romantic Sherman Rose (Chromatella) ; a free- 
growing, everblooming, yellow climber of 1843. 
