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The Lester Rose Gardens 
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i GREEN ROSE (1856)— A rose some¬ 
times dismissed as a freak but it is 
far more; the perfect example of a 
plant that in so perfectly imitating 
a true flower, seems to have a keen 
sense of humor, for its lasting, 
novel, green "flowers” are no flowers at all but leaves in perfect flower form, borne all year 
long unless frost prevents, often tinged with bronze and most attractive. The only rose of its 
kind. 
Lester Photo 
The strange, fascinating, everblooming GREEN ROSE 
of 1856. 
FORTUNE’S DOUBLE YELLOW 
(1845); (Beauty of Glazen- 
wood; San Rafael Rose; Gold of 
Ophir) —A rank climbing China- 
tea rose in great favor with profuse, 
semi-double orange-yellow flowers, 
flanked with red, borne in wreaths. 
GEN. JACQUEMINOT (1852) — 
Scarlet crimson double flowers on 
strong stems, intensely fragrant. 
Vigorous, sturdy, a fine old favorite. 
GLOIRE de DIJON ( 1853 ) —Favor¬ 
ite climbing rose of our grandpar¬ 
ents, still as good as ever; hardy, 
vigorous, with very large, very full, 
fragrant flowers of rose, salmon and 
yellow. This is the rose of which 
Dean Hole, England’s most famous 
rosarian, said that if he were con¬ 
demned to have but one rose it 
would be the Gloire de Dijon! 
GRUSS AN TEPLITZ —Fine type of a really everblooming rose, descendant of noble rose ancestors; 
bears from early spring to late frost double, lasting flowers of deepest scarlet and intensely 
fragrant. Foliage is abundant and very disease-resistant; growth most vigorous, attaining shrub 
height. Grows rankly in any soil. 
HARRISON’S YELLOW (1830); (The Old Fashioned Yellow Brier) —Shrub rose with 
small, very double, gold-yellow flowers and fern-like foliage; brought to the West by the 
covered wagon pioneer women in the gold-rush days. 
HUGONIS (Father Hugo’s Rose) —Most valuable species rose from China, of erect, branching 
growth, up to 6 feet or more, making a handsome shrub. Foliage is fern-like and beautiful; in 
the fall tinged purple. Flowers 2 inches wide, single, pale yellow, very graceful, borne in 
utmost profusion completely clothing the spreading branches making a striking display in 
the spring. Very hardy, dependable and resistant. 
HERMOSA (1840) T —Old favorite with globular bright rose double flowers; continuous 
bloomer. $1.50 
LA FRANCE (1867) T —Invaluable old tea rose with large, full, silver-rose flowers of sweetest 
fragrance; a continuous bloomer. 
MME. ALFRED CARRIERE (1879)—Noisette climber, continuous bloomer, disease proof, with 
blush-white double, fragrant flowers. 
MARECHAL NEIL (1864)—For generations the favorite climbing yellow, everblooming rose, 
most fragrant of all roses; very full, double and prolific. 
