WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA Old-fashioned Roses, Continued 
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The Genuine OLD RED MOSS Rose of the 17th Century 
GRUSS AN TEPLITZ—Fine type of a really everblooming rose, descendant of noble rose 
ancestors; bears from early spring to late frost double, lasting flowers of deepest scarlet 
and intensely fragrant. Foliage is abundant and very disease-resistant, growth most 
vigorous, attaining shrub height. Grows rankly in any soil. 75c. 
HARRISON’S YELLOW (1830); (The Old-Fashioned Yellow Brier) — Fine fern-like brier 
foliage and small, very double flowers of an intense buttercup-yellow that does not fade. 
Grows to a large, spreading shrub. $1.00. 
This is the old-fashioned “Rose of Our Grandmothers’. In the gold-rush days of the ’49ers it was 
a comparatively new yellow rose, greatly admired and I have learned repeatedly from the lips of the 
descendants of the early pioneers the story of how this rose came west. As the covered wagon left 
the eastern home for the long transcontinental trek it was the woman of the home who dug up a 
root-sprout ‘of this yellow rose that had won her heart, planted it in a tin can, nursed it through the 
long months of travel overland, and planted it by the new home in the California mother-lode 
sterras. Here I have frequently found it in the abandoned gardens of miners’ homes, vacated decades 
ago, “gone wild”, uncared for, yet flourishing and blooming with all the abandon of a native flower. 
HENRI MARTIN—See under Moss Roses, page 6. 
HUGONIS (Father Hugo’s Rose)—Most valuable species rose from China, of erect, branch- 
ing growth, up to 6 feet or more, making a handsome shrub. Foliage is fern-like and beau- 
tiful; in the fall tinged purple. Flowers 2 inches wide, single, pale yellow, very graceful, 
borne in utmost profusion completely clothing the spreading branches, making a striking 
display in the spring. Very hardy, dependable and resistant. $1.00. 
LA FRANCE (1867)—Invaluable old tea rose with large, full, silver-rose flowers of sweet- 
est fragrance; a continuous bloomer. $1.00. 
LAMARQUE (1830)—Famous old climbing Noisette, very strong grower, quite disease re- 
sistant, lovely foliage, delightfully fragrant white flowers all season long,—everything 
you can ask for in a climbing rose! Second size only, 75c. 
This is the mother and the grandmother of many of the Noisette climbing roses that are so perfectly 
at home in the climate of California and the South and are to be found, generations old, in our 
oldest gardens. Mme. Alfred Carriere, Marechal Niel, Chromatella and Reve d'Or are but some of 
these. Lamargue is a rose that asks for little but gives much. I have one specimen that flourishes 
like a wild thing in a tangle of native shrubs against a redwood background; it has never been 
artificially fed or watered or sprayed; and its graceful, fragrant white flowers, that could never 
make the grade at a fashionable rose show, seem sometimes to gently shake with laughter at our 
modern habit of fussing over roses to get results! 
LOUIS PHILIPPE (1834)—A bushy China rose, the kind that does so well in mild climates, 
with pleasing, pest-resistant foliage, and medium-size, very double, globular, fragrant 
flowers of deep scarlet-red, borne profusely all season long. $1.00. 
MME. ALFRED CARRIERE (1879)—WNoisette climber, continuous bloomer, disease proof, 
with blush-white double, fragrant flowers. $1.00. 
MADAME HARDY (1832)—Greatly esteemed in all old-fashioned gardens for its large, very 
full, cupped flowers of pure white, sometimes tinged with flesh-pink, with the true, last- 
ing old-fashioned rose fragrance. Still as good as ever. $1.00. 
MME. VICTOR VERDIER (1863)—A strong growing hybrid perpetual with handsome foliage 
and very large, deliciously fragrant double flowers, on strong stems, of a clear light 
crimson. $1.00. 
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