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—WRS. PIERRE S. DUPONT--This beautiful coppery yellow rose when 
on my wonderfully strong plants far outperforms any other yellow 
rose today. .The beautiful urn shaped buds held upright on the 
ends of the stems, opening to a rich yellow, deliciously fra-- 
grant bloom, assured the persistence of DuPont when it was on the 
_.former small plants which were characteristic of this variety. 
In addition it boasted very healthy dense rich foliage, anda 
notable resistance to thrips and other insects. On any kind 
of plant it tended to give a good quantity of bloom. : 
Xe ays propagated DuPont for Many seasons, long enough to 
have made a perfectly astonishing improvement in plant quality, 
notably in vigor of growth and production of blooms. I have no 
hesitation in saying that DuPont on my powerful plants is by 
all odds the top yellow garden ‘rose today. Low. 1.00 
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We originally listed in this catalogue about 300 varieties’ of 
roses. We still can offer about 225 varieties of all types. 
However, as might be expected, more varieties of Hybrid Teas 
are exhausted than of-any other type. For some reason we 
have never been able to fathom, most of our climbing roses are 
sold in spring, and not over twelve or fifteen“varictits “are 
now out 
Therefore, when ordering, ‘Blease give us a list of permitted: 
substitutions, or advise us that we may use our own best judge- 
ment in substitution of varicties you have ordered and which ‘are 
sold out on receipt of your order. Unless you are an exper- 
ienced rosarian and know what varieties do well in your ° own 
gerden, you are probably safer to let me make the suostitions. 
I know what rose in your locality will come nearest to perform- 
ing like the one I was unable to supply. Furthermore, if I 
can substitute a higher priced rose for the one sold out, I 
make and have always made a persistent practice of doing this. 
Only if I have no higher priced roses that are nearly like the 
varieties originally ordered do I make substitutions of roses 
of equal value. I do this substituting of more expensive 
roses because I am first a rose lover and secondarily a nur- 
seryman, and believe this ast to the enjoyment of rose lovers 
like myself. 
