Watsonville, California 
Old-fashioned Roses, Continued 
modern varieties and yet will flourish with abandon. We of California have sadly overlooked the merits 
of the Old Roses in our mad scramble after the latest patented novelty; one writer, 7 5 years ago, tells of 
Marechal Neil as a riot of bloom from one end of the state to the other, yet where do we find this most 
fragrant of all yellow climbers, quite unequaled in its class, now? In many a neglected Pacific Coast 
garden you may find old roses, planted half a century ago or more, blooming continuously; there are still 
growing in California some of the original specimens of the Castilian Rose that were planted by the 
Mission Fathers who founded the missions! 
Then, too, only the Old Roses offer you that rare quality of association value which age and 
tradition alone can give; the Eglantine is one of these, favorite rose with Shakespeare and of the Eliza¬ 
bethan days. And is it not worth much to have in your garden the original variety of which Moore 
wrote his immortal "Last Rose of Summer”? 
The Old Roses offer garden delights unobtainable elsewhere. Practically all are deliciously fragrant, 
many with the true attar-of-rose fragrance so markedly absent in modern rose creations. 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. Stock offered is of 2-year-old selected plants of finest quality; occasionally, if sold out of large 
plants, we can send smaller size, making due allowance in price. To avoid disappointment orders should 
be placed promptly. 
PRICE, unless otherwise stated, delivered free within the 3rd zone, $1.00 each, 10% off 
in lots of 10 or more. Beyond that add 10 cents each; if east of the Mississippi, add 13 cents. 
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Oh! No man knows 
Through what wild centuries 
Roves back the Rose! 
—Walter de la Mare. 
AUSTRIAN COPPER (1596) — Single 
flowers of intense copper-red with old- 
gold center and reverse; vigorous, 
hardy, resistant to disease. 
BANKSIA, White (1807)— Rank, thorn¬ 
less climber with profuse clusters of 
small, double, white, violet-scented 
flowers. 
BANKSIA, Yellow (1816) — Like the 
above but with fawn-yellow flowers, 
less fragrant. 
BEAUTY OF GLAZENWOOD (See 
Fortune’s Double Yellow). 
BISHOP’S (About 1700) — Old-time 
cabbage rose, deep carmine to purple- 
black, very double and fragrant. $1.5 0. 
BLACK PRINCE (1866)—Hybrid per¬ 
petual rose of vigorous habit with large, 
full, cupped flowers of deepest crimson, 
shaded black; fine fragrance. 
Lester Photo 
The Romantic Sherman Rose (Chromatella) ; a free- 
growing, everblooming, yellow climber of 1843. 
:ASTILIAN (Ancient); (The Damask 
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, followed by long scarlet 
hips. Our’s is the variety from which the true attar of roses is made. $2.5 0. 
2HEROKEE, Red (Chinese Wild Rose; R. laevigata) (Ramona) —Strong climber growing readily 
without care; fine for fences. Shining light green 3-leaflet foliage and huge, single, bright red 
AGRIPPINA (1789)—Famous old climb¬ 
ing China rose, for hedge or trellis; 
free and most persistent bloomer with 
clusters of very double cup-form deep 
crimson flowers. Most valuable. $1.5 0. 
flowers of rare charm. 
