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- This page was formerly devoted to Nigger Boy, the splen 
Hybrid-Tea polyantha. We have been sold out of this remark 
border rose for so long that we can scarcely remember when 
ly had plants for sale. | However, we will have a good q 
this gorgeous border rose for sale again this fall. Please > do 
order this rose for this spring. We simply haven't BOF, to 
; NIGGER BOY, the perfect Re ri has a low compageaia 
ly foliaged plant 18 to 20 inches high and as much through. “2 
‘perfectly healthy plant is covered continually with masses 
aes crimson blooms of perfect Hybrid Tea size and ea 
~The pointed buds are perfection, and open into blooms rivaling. 
Crimson Glory in form. The blooms are fadeless in sun, nor @o 
blue. The color is even more brilliant than Christopher Stone 
Donald mene e and richer than Daily Mail Scented or Guinee. Th 
color stability is avsoiute. ~ ae 
The intriguing name is doubtless a tribute to the colonia 
the buds under some weather conditions, for occasionally th 
vet suface of the pointed buds is almost completely black. 
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MMM NBS a a he re a Oba ge cee er 
There is scarcely a rose garden so small that a few plants of | 
delightful Hybrid Polyantha roses cannot be tucked away in sq! 
ner, even though you can't have a border or a grouping of © 
The tiniest ones such as Etoile Luisante or Baby FParaux make 
delightful table desorations, corsages and buttonhole roses. 
the lerger flowered types, it must not be forgotten that | 
for the popularity of Hybrid Polyanthas is the long Lasting qu 
of the bloom, which on the bush must persist for a long tim - 
thus when cut for the house lasts even longer. ae we 
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You will note that you can get in the otis tertevewatet pol 
type roses practically any type of blossom given by any ros 
the fluffy double blossoms of Orange Triumph to the long § 
Tea bucs of the new Rosenelfe, etc. The wide range of blossc 
types and colors alone make Hybrid Polyanthas thet og 
vestigating. 
Purthermore, do not forget that zood ‘H. Polys, and we of 
other kind, are very healthy and disease resistant. Bs 
