Old-fashioned Roses, Continued ‘THe Lester Rosz— GARDENS 
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DAMASK ROSE (16th Century) — Strong 
growing bush type bearing recurrently 
double, deliciously fragrant flowers of 
deep pink to red, sometimes striped with 
white. Sturdy and resistant to neglect; a 
famous rose in history. $1.25. 
DUCHESS de BRABANT (1857): (The 
Duchess)—Favorite old decorative Tea 
Rose; vigorous large bush form; pale 
pink, tulip-form fragrant flowers all sea- 
son long. $1.00. 
EGLANTINE (Ancient Species Rose) — 
Hardy, vigorous, easy to grow Sweetbrier 
shrub rose, ideal as specimen or hedge 
subject. $1.00. 
Here is the true Eglantine, rose of the 
English poets from Chaucer down thru the 
centuries; the original English Sweetbrier, 
great favorite in Elizabethan gardens; quite 
disease resistant for it flourishes under ad- 
versity. Bears single pink flowers and thick 
leaves that fill the early morning or late 
evening air with their delicious apple-frag- 
rance and as though that were not enough 
to delight your heart, abundant, long-last- 
ing, scarlet hips in fall and winter. 
ELIZABETH ROWE—See under Moss Roses, 
page 6. 
FAIRY ROSE (1800)—Choice dwarf rose, 
The Romantic Sherman Rose (Chromatella);a ideal for rock gardens, with profuse, 
. : : single, small, pink or white flowers 
free-growing, ever-blooming, yellow climber of  1,cene !continuously: )diseaeemad pest- 
1843 (Described on page 3) proof foliage. 75e. 
GARDENIA (1899)—Vigorous hardy climber with very handsome disease-proof evergreen 
foliage and double cream flowers. Ideal for covering an old building, its foliage effect is 
so lovely. $1.00. , 
GENERAL JACQUEMINOT (1852)—tThe favorite red rose of our grandmothers’ gardens; 
sturdy and vigorous and well behaved, even though neglected. $1.00. 
A hearty, rugged, thick-necked rose of military mien that appears disdainful of the petting demanded 
by our modern roses for it blooms freely and continuously even though neglected and in poor soil. 
Grows to large bush proportions; bears its very double brilliant scarlet-red flowers on strong stems, 
so rich in old-fashioned rose fragrance that I have seen more than one admirer deeply stirred by 
tender memories aroused, 
GLOIRE de DIJON (1853)—Favorite climbing rose of our grandparents, still as good as 
ever; hardy, vigorous, with very large, very full, fragrant flowers of rose, salmon, and 
yellow. This is the rose of which Dean Hole, England’s most famous rosarian, said that if 
he were condemned to have but one rose it would be the Gloire de Dijon. $1.00. 
GLOIRE des ROSOMANES (1825); 
(Ragged Robin)—Large, semi-double 
fragrant flowers of glowing crimson, 
in clusters, borne quite continuously; 
vigorous growth and tremendously 
resistant to pests, disease and neg- 
lect. High bush to pillar form. 75c. 
GLOIRE LYONNAISE (1884) — The 
most popular white rose in old time 
gardens; a strong-growing hybrid per- 
petual with large, leathery foliage, 
bearing intermittently its very large 
and double, cupped flowers of ivory- 
white tinged with yellow at the cen- 
ter, intriguingly fragrant. $1.00. 
GREEN ROSE (1856)—lIllustrated. One 
of the easiest disease-proof roses to 
grow anywhere, in any soil, with 
handsome, clean foliage, shapely bush 
form and almost thornless. $1.00. 

A rose that is sometimes dismissed by 
unimaginative folk as a freak, but to 
the sympathetic rose-lover truly a rose 
with a keen sense of humor. Its “flow- 
ers” are indeed no flowers at all but a 
strange and quite unexplained freak of 
foliage, yet the buds exactly resemble 
other rose buds and open up to attrac- 
tive, double leaf-green flowers that, to 
complete the deception that this rose so 
cleverly achieves, take on tones of 
bronze and scarlet. Only severe frost 

The strange, fascinating, ever-blooming 
GREEN ROSE of 1856 will stop its happy blooming habit. 
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