Old-fashioned Roses, Continued 
The Lester Rose Gardens 
tea rose with large, full, silver-rose flowers 
of sweetest fragrance; a continuous 
bloomer. 
LAMARQUE ( 1830) — Famous old climbing 
Noisette, very rank and vigorous, quite 
disease and pest resistant, lovely foliage, 
large, double, very fragrant white flowers 
all season long. Small plants only. 7 5c. 
MME. ALFRED CARRIERE ( 1879)— Nois¬ 
ette 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. Likes a hot, sunny 
location. 
MOSS ROSE (17th Century) — (See illus¬ 
trations on pages 1 and 5 — No other old 
fashioned rose is richer in its association 
value and the deliciously fragrant moss- 
covered buds have no equal! Tremendously 
resistant to disease and drouth; does well 
on sunny banks in poor soil; a rose that 
asks for little and gives much! We offer 
the Old Pink, Old Red and Old White. 
Any kind, each $ 1.00; one each of all 3 kinds for $2.75. 
MRS. JOHN LAING ( 1887) —One of the best of the hardy hybrid perpetual roses; vigorous 
grower; bears very large, very double, fragrant, soft pink flowers on thick long stems, continuously. 
OLD BLUSH ( 1796) —The China rose of which Moore wrote his immortal "Last Rose of Summer.” 
No other rose, old or new, is quite such a free and continuous bloomer. Double, fragrant, pink 
flowers; clean habits; no disease. Grows to shrub proportions. $1.5 0. 
OLD WHITE CLIMBER (About 18 50) —Grand, vigorous, disease-proof climber with very double, 
large, fragrant white flowers borne throughout the season. Invaluable for conditions of neglect. 
PAPA GONTIER ( 1883 ) T —Early, profuse and continuous bloomer with fairly double pink 
flowers with crimson reverse. 
PAUL NEYRON ( 1869) —Probably the largest flowering rose; enormous blooms, extremely double, 
very lasting, deliciously fragrant, of a clear pink borne singly on long, strong stems; rich foliage 
and vigorous growth. 
PERLE d’OR (1884); (Yellow Cecile Brunner) —Long salmon-orange bud, very fragrant, small, 
double, orange-pink flower; abundant disease-proof foliage; quite everblooming; fine bush rose. 
RAMONA (See Cherokee). 
ROSA SOULEIANA (Old Asiatic Species Rose) — Most valuable hardy climber up to 12 feet with 
gray-green foliage and very profuse, deliciously fragrant, single, white, golden-centered flowers. 
$1.50. 
RUGOSA— A very old species rose introduced in 1874, with rough and heavy dark green foliage that 
is quite disease resistant, and of shrubby growth. Very large, single, fragrant, pink flowers are 
borne throughout the season followed by huge, round, bright scarlet hips. Well worth a place in any 
garden; grows in any soil. 
SHAILER’S PROVENCE (18th Century) — One of the old centifolia (cabbage) roses, highly 
resistant to disease and neglect; large, cupped, anemone-form flowers of lilac-pink; fine fragrance. 
$1.25. 
SHERMAN ROSE (See Chromatella) 
SOUV. de la MALMAISON (1843) (Queen of Beauty and Fragrance) —Very large, very double, 
deliciously fragrant flower of true old-fashioned form, creamy flesh with rose center, delicately 
shaded. Vigorous growth; resistant; hardy. We have the rank growing form useful as strong bush 
or low climber. 
ULRICH BRUNNER (1882) — Very vigorous, upright hybrid perpetual rose, hardy and resistant, 
free bloomer with intensely fragrant, large cupped flowers of geranium red. 
YORK and LANCASTER (1551) — Famous old Damask rose associated with the Wars of the Roses, 
with intensely fragrant flowers sometimes white, sometimes red or striped. $ 1.5 0. 
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Lester Photo 
Favorite of Victorian Days 
SOUV. de la MALMAISON, flesh-toned and 
fragrant. 
