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FLORIBUNDA ROSES 
The Floribundas are new!! These recently developed, large-flowered 
types produce blossoms of Hybrid Tea quality in a steady procession of 
colorful bloom. They quite overshadow and throw into the discard 
the miniature, closely-clustered flowers of the old Baby Ramblers or 
Polyanthas. 
All Summer long, from June until Thanksgiving, and especially while 
the Hybrid Tea Roses are resting from their early season of abundant 
bloom, these tremendousely worthwhile and altogether charming Roses 
literally ‘“‘bloom their heads off,’’ and help to create that all-important 
Midsummer smash of color that all flower lovers strive for in their borders. 
Plant them with confidence, because they will surprise you and please 
you in every way ! Floribundas grow vigorously into compact spreading 
bushes clothed with disease-free dark green foliage, and topped with 
billows of colorful bloom. Read the descriptions of the following varieties. 
Select your favorite colors, and make a beginning with these really choice, 
large-flowered bush Roses. Incidentally they are perfectly hardy, which 
is another extremely important point in their favor. 
Betty Prior (Pat. 340). Clusters of glorious dark carmine flowers are 
produced in unbroken succession on strong, upright plants. The 
flowers are 3 to 4 inches across, fragrant, and with light pink shading 
inside the petals. 2 to 3 feet. 85c. each, $8.50 per dozen 
Donald Prior (Pat. 377). Semi-double, cup-shaped flowers of bright 
scarlet, flushed crimson. Fragrant and extremely free blooming. Foli- 
age dark green. Plants strong, growing to 3 feet. 
$5c. each, $8.50 per dozen 
Else Poulsen. Large, single flowers of 
brilliant rose pink, borne continuously 
in sprays on plants of erect habit. Fine, 
clean foliage. Very highly recom- 
mended. A very charming variety that 
never fails to please. 3 feet. 
85c. each, $8.50 per dozen 
Gruss an Aachen. An outstanding bed- 
ding Rose with flowers of Hybrid Tea 
character. Plants dwarf. Orange-red and 
yellow buds open to large, delicate yel- 
low and pink flowers of great charm. 
2 feet. 85c. each, $8.50 per dozen 
Joyous (Pat. 381). Rose-pink buds open- 
ing to clear pink, remaining clear and 
unmottled throughout the life of the 
flower. Exceptionally free-blooming. 
Fine for cutting. 2 to 3 feet. 
85c. each, $8.50 per dozen 
Summer Snow. Beautiful clusters of 
fully double snow white flowers. Elu- 
sively fragrant. 
85c. each, $8.50 per dozen 
Cecile Brunner. This is an oak-hardy, 
miniature-flowered Polyantha of truly 
rare beauty and form. Its tiny, shell- 
pink flowers, of perfect Rose bud form 
and Lilliputian size, are borne in graceful 
sprays throughout the season. 21% feet. 
Dormant,-85c. each, 3 for $2.25 
Potted, $1.00 each, 3 for $2.75 

(Pat. 484) (Illustrated in color on Page 78) 
The last word in dainty and profuse blooming Floribundas, with 
long pointed buds of the most exquisite salmon flushed with gold 
at the base. The blooms, like miniature Hybrid Teas open to a soft, 
clear pink which gradually deepens toward the edges of the petals. 
The plants which grow between 20 and 24 inches high are ex- 
tremely hardy and very disease-resistant. Throughout the season 
they produce hundreds of blooms in great clusters. The flowers 
are truly exotic in their fruity fragrance. 
Dormant plants, each $1.25 3 for $3.15, 12 for $12.50 
After May 10 potted plants will be available at 25c. each per plant 
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“GOLDEN ROSE 
FE CHINA 
<——— (Father Hugo’s Rose) 
A GLORIOUS GOLDEN SHOWER 
OF BLOOM IN MAY 
From the bleak wastes of Western 
China comes ‘‘Father Hugo’s’” Rose. 
Generations of struggle to survive have 
imparted a hardiness seldom found in 
the Rose family. 
This graceful shrub with its arching 
branches of golden flowers comes into 
bloom at the same time as the Darwin 
Tulips, and where these two Spring gar- 
den subjects are used together in working 
out a bulb garden planting, a truly rare picture of beauty may easily and 
inexpensively be painted. As an informal shrub in hardy borders or as an 
accent point in landscaping, the Golden Rose of China is most useful. The 
single flowers are 2 inches across. The foliage is fernlike. See the picture 
in the center of this page. $1.00 each, 3 for $2.75 
OTHER SHRUB ROSES 
Harison’s Yellow. The fine, old fashioned bush Rose which grows in old 
farmyards and gardens all over New England. Thousands of bright 
yellow, semi-double flowers in long sprays adorn its spreading branches 
in early Summer. 85c. each, $8.50 per dozen 
Rosa Rugosa. This is the original Wild Rose from Northern Japan and 
Siberia. The large, single, crepe-textured flowers are bright rosy-red, 
unceasingly produced throughout the entire season. A very handsome 
shrub as a border plant and recommended unreservedly as the most 
valuable, and hardy and satisfactory flowering shrub for seaside plant- 
ing. No matter how bleak the location may be, this shrub Rose will 
survive gales, sleet storms and repeated lashing by salt spray. 
75c. each, $7.50 per dozen 
GROUND COVER ROSE 
Rosa Wichuraiana. “The Memorial Rose,’’ as it is often called, has the 
purest of -Ppure white flowers, which are carried in clusters, above the 
mat of shiny green foliage that densely covers the ground. Excellent for 
underplanting, or for preventing erosion on steep banking. The foliage 
is almost evergreen. 85c. each, 3 for $2.50 

