

MRS. FRANCIS KING (Everblooming) Plant Patent 
No. 253. See illustration above. All hybridizers agree that 
a good white rose is hardest to produce. This is probably 
why such a connoisseur as Mrs. Francis King, one of the 
founders of The Garden Club of America, specified a white 
rose as the one she wished to bear her name. She wisely 
wanted a rose not easily duplicated. To make the problem 
more difficult she specified ““White Gold” with the arctic 
vigor and hardiness of the Alaskan Rose Nutkana. The 
blossoms are very large, carried on long upright stems, 
white at first tinted cream and ivory, turning to pure white 
with a soft gold centre. It has the pleasant fragrance of 
wild roses and is a prolific continuous bloomer. CERTIFI- 
CATE OF MERIT 1937. 85e each; 3 for $2.15. 

Break O’ Day Rose 

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PE TANT PATENT 
NO.38 
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COUNTESS VANDAL (Everblooming) Plant Patent No. 
38. See illustration above. This rose has been acclaimed the 
belle of the modern Rose Pageant, defeating all challengers by 
producing, without exception, the most artistic bud in rose- 
dom, garbed in coppery bronze and pink, suffused with soft 
gold. Continuous bloomer. $1.00 each; 3 for $2.50. 
“Break O’ Day” Rose 
A New Type of Rose to Revolutionize the Rose Industry. 
“Break O’ Day” is the direct result of 35 years of Rose Breed- 
ing for the purpose of producing certain definite improvements 
in the rose family. The result is an entirely new type of rose 
never before produced. The flowers are very large, with 60 
petals, exquisitely fragrant and superior to anything in com- 
merce in Hybrid Tea Roses. The bush produces many times 
the number of flowers produced by the most vigorous Hybrid 
Tea Rose, being loaded with flowers all summer and fall. But 
one of the greatest achievements in “Break O’ Day” Rose is 
its life expectancy of 40 to 50 years. Instead of planting a 
hybrid tea rose to enjoy a few years of blossoms, you will now 
plant this new type of rose for a life-time of flowers. 
AND IT IS SUB-ZERO HARDY and will make 4 to 5 foot 
specimens, three feet in diameter, constantly covered with 
blossoms; or you may keep them trimmed back as desired. 
To reproduce this rose in color in the illustration at the left 
was the despair of the artist, with its many changing salmon, 
apricot and pink tints, all blended together in a delightful 
harmony. The color leans more towards the pink tone and is 
much more handsome than the illustration. Extra Strong 
Two Year Old Field Grown ‘‘Cream Quality”? plants 
$1.50 each; 3 for $3.75. 
Lily Pons Rose 
“Lily Pons” is the result of the same 35 years of cross breeding 
as ‘Break O’ Day,” with all of its good qualities as described 
above. “Lily Pons”’ is the second of this new group of Sub- 
Zero Hardy Improved Hybrid Tea Roses. It is undoubtedly 
the greatest achievement in roses to-day. Such perfection was 
never seen in a rose before. 
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It is a huge flower, as fine as the finest hothouse grown rose 
as charming and brilliant as the voice of the singer for whom 
it was named. The flowers are five and one-half inches across 
and freely produced all summer. The centre is yellow, shading 
to white outer petals. 
$1.50 each; 3 for $3.75. 
