WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA Two Special Roses 

Two Outstandingly Good Roses! 
THAT BLOOM CONTINUOUSLY AND 
RESIST DISEASE 
Two everblooming roses so good in all their 
ways that we give them this page, apart from all 
the rest, to extol their merits. 
Go, lovely Rose! 
Tell her . . . How sweet and fair she seems to be. 
—WALLER. 
KATHLEEN—Illustrated. A distinctively beauti- 
ful rose offered by us exclusively. It has a 
strong shrub habit of growth; its large, leath- 
ery foliage is strikingly attractive, remaining 
on the plant in this climate all the year, and 
it is entirely resistant to disease or insect pest. 
The flowers of Kathleen come in huge clusters 
from early spring to late frost, each individual 
flower, well spaced from its companions, like 
a glorified apple blossom, fragrant with the old 
musk rose scent. The flowers are followed by 
huge orange hips that will last all winter, in- 
doors or out. Extra large 2-year specimen 
plants. $1.00. 
Most of us rose folk, when we are young in our 
rose experience, are carried away with the modern 
craze for the stiff-necked, very double, very big 
rose in the latest glamorous Hollywood tints. Only 
as we progress in our rose intimacies do we wake 
up to the fact that in roses, as in art, there is 
beauty in simplicity rather than in complexity. 
When that happy enlightenment comes we grow 
to love the single roses. In this altogether lovely 
rose Kathleen we have a simple beauty that even 
the hardened modern cannot resist. It is a descend- 
ant of the old Musk rose from which it gets its 
exquisite fragrance and from which it inherits its 
extraordinary resistance to neglect. I grow this rose 
in both deep shade and full sun, in good soil and 
in the poorest, and have come to greatly respect 
its tolerance for adverse conditions. It is a rose 
whose ae caoes ie tee ene ae a 
intimate charm,—the kind of rose that will ta 
10 you, if you understand its language. The Eng- KATHLEEN. A small cluster; the ever- 
lish clergyman who developed Kathleen some two blooming Apple Blossom Rose 
decades ago was a godly man but surely no act of 
his could win him more immortal joy than this introduction. Incidentally, he never married for, 
as he said, he loved roses too well for there to be any room in his heart for a woman! 
MERMAID—lIllustrated. A rose that stands in a class by itself because, for its purpose, it 
has no equal. It makes a good ground covering; it is the ideal rose for a fence; it may be 
grown as a showy, always attractive 
shrub; and trained as a climber it will 
reach a second story quickly. Because 
its seed-parent is an Asiatic wild rose 
it inherits an amazing resistance to 
neglect, drouth, pest and disease. It 
is alone worth planting for its glisten- 
ing, evergreen foliage, the new growth 
red-tipped. Its enormous single yellow 
flowers, sometimes six inches across, 
are borne all season long and have 
the marvelous fragrance of the Mare- 
chal Niel rose; each bears a showy 
mass of golden stamens that persist 
after the petals fall. 75c. 
When this rose was introduced from 
England some fourteen years ago we 
first wrote rather extravagantly about 
its merits for Pacific Coast conditions 
but we have never had any reason to 
amend those statements. It seems to me 
to be arose with a definite personality ; 
its large flowers have such an appeal- 
ing beauty; its uniformly good be- 
havior gives you the impression that it 
is heart and soul working with you,— 
so different to that host of roses that 
must be hwmored and protected and 
fussed over and that seem to challenge 
you to make them grow! “Plant me,” 
Mermaid seems to say, “where I can A 5-inch bloom of MERMAID with a bud of 
make a little spot on earth more beauti- ai 7 
ful than before and I will do the rest.” Rosa Rouletti in a thimble | 
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