WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA 
Old-fashioned Roses, Continued 
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Oh! No man knows 
Through what wild centuries 
Roves back the Rose! 
—W ALTER DE LA MARE. 
AGRIPPINA (1789); (Cramoisie Superieur) 
— Famous old China pillar rose for 
hedge, porch, etc.; free and persistent 
bloomer with clusters of very double 
deep crimson flowers; quite disease re- 
sistant. Hlustrated. $1.00. 
ALEXANDER HILL GRAY (1911); (Yel- 
low Cochet) — Good everblooming tea 
rose with large, fragrant, lemon-yellow 
double flowers. $1.00 and 75c. 
ALISTER STELLA GRAY (1894); (Golden 
Rambler )—Invaluable climbing noisette 
rose, always in bloom, disease-proof; 
double, fragrant, orange and yellow flow- 
ers in clusters, pointed buds. A rose to 
plant, forget, but love. $1.00. 
AUSTRIAN COPPER (1596)—Single flow- 
ers of intense copper-red with old gold 
center and reverse, vigorous, hardy, re- 
sistant to disease. $1.00. 
BANKSIA (1807)—Rank, thornless climb- 
er with profuse clusters of small double, 
white, violet-scented flowers. $1.00. 
Native of China, the Banksia is a _ very 
long-lived rose, lasting for centuries; it 
grows to immense proportions. On one 
specimen in Southern France a patient in- 
vestigator counted over fifty thousand 
blooms and its peasant owner was said to 
cut its surplus wood for firewood! Speci- 
mens are growing today in California with 
trunks well over a foot thick; in Arizona 
scented flowers in spring. 
BLACK PRINCE (1866)—Hybrid perpetual 
rose of vigorous habit with large, full, 
cupped flowers of deep crimson, shaded 
black; rare fragrance. 85c. 
CASTILIAN (Ancient); (The Damask Rose; 
Rose of Castile; Rose of Babylon) —Illus- 
trated. Shrub habit, recurrent bloomer, 
with double, soft pink, intensely fragrant 
flowers of rich charm, followed by long 
scarlet hips. $2.00. 
This is truly the Rose of Romance for it 
has come down to us through the centuries 
clothed in a halo of historic traditions. It is 
one of the oldest roses known. Its graceful 
semi-double flowers fill the garden air with 
their intense fragrance for from these flow- 
ers is made the true attar of roses. A rose 
to win your heart as it speaks to you of its 
romantic past. 
CRAMOISIE SUPERIEUR—See Agrippina. 
CREPUSCULE (1904)—Really rare for we 
know of no other source of supply. A 
lovely climbing Noisette Rose, quite re- 
sistant to rose enemies, bearing abun- 
dantly all season long long-pointed buds 
and fragrant flowers of bittersweet-or- 
ange, changing to apricot-yellow. Most 
desirable. $1.50 and $1.00. 
CHROMATELLA (1843); (Cloth of Gold; 
The Sherman Rose)—Illustrated. A vig- 
orous everblooming climber, with disease 
proof foliage and double fawn-yellow 
fragrant flowers in profusion. The orig- 
inal rose whose romantic love-legend of 
old Monterey has given to it the name 
of ‘‘The Sherman Rose.’’ With each plant 
we enclose a copy of Mr. Lester’s copy- 
righted ‘“‘The True Story of the Sherman 
Rose.’’ Illustrated, page 4. $1.50 and $1. 
So sweet was the savor of Roses . 
Her virtues were so rare. 

AGRIPPINA 
Favorite in Old California Gardens 
“The Rose is sweetest washed with morning dew.’ 
SCOTT. 
is a fifty-year-old Banksia whose branches provide more than a thousand square feet of shade for 
a patio tea-house! In mild climates it is ideal, with evergreen foliage, a cloud of dainty violet- 
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CASTILIAN 
A favorite for over 2000 years! 
The Ancient Castilian Rose 
Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair 
In that she never studied to be fairer 
Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, 
—ALL FOooLs. 

. that sick persons, borne in the garden in a litter, walked forth sound 
and well for having passed the night in so lovely a place. 
—FRrRoM THE “LAY OF THE LITTLE Birb.’’ 
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