





HEART’S DESIRE 
PAT. 501 
| HEART’S DESIRE 
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Crimson Glory—Patent No. 105. Acknowl- 
edged to be the very finest dark red rose, a 
deep crimson with a velvety sheen. The 
flowers are perfect, exquisite buds opening 
into large, magnificent blooms, delightfully 
fragrant. The plant makes a strong, rather 
spreading bush, hardy, healthy, producing the 
beautiful flowers from early summer to frost. 
Lovely in the garden and fine for cutting. 
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Sterling—Paten: No. 21. Superb color, form, fragrance and 
performance, that is a condensed story of Sterling. A glowing 
pink that is produced all season, even right through the hot 
summer months. Long stems fine for cutting. A hardy, vig- 
orous grower. An outstanding pink rose. Postpaid. 
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CRIMSON GLORY 
PAT. 105 


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| CRIMSON GLORY - | STERLING — 

Contrast—A strikingly beautiful bi- 
color rose, the inside of the petal is 
cerise-rose with a brightening touch of 
orange, and the outside is satiny white. 
The flowers are very full and double, 
fragrant and produced in enormous 
quantities throughout the entire sea- 
son. Extra fine in the garden and un- 
surpassed for cutting with their long 
stems. It is such a strong, husky, vig- 
orous grower, healthy and hardy. A 
great rose for everybody, almost every- 
where—a rose that ‘“‘can take it.’’ 
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STERLING 
_ PAT. 21 


Heart’s Desire—Patent No. 501. If we could have but one rose, this 
would be it. An All America Rose Selection winner, it is destined to 
become one of the great roses of all time. The buds are absolutely per- 
fect and they open into large, graceful double flowers, with long stems 
fine for cutting. The color is a bright yet soft, crimson-scarlet that 
does not fade. So fragrant, the true delicious rose fragrance, that just 
a small bouquet will perfume a room. The plant itself is a sturdy, 
healthy, vigorous grower, producing freely throughout the entire 
season. Moreover it improves with age, the blooms the second and 
third years, will astonish you. Postpaid. Each $1.50. 
Grande Duchesse Charlotte and Mary 
Margaret McBride are the two All 
America Rose Selection winners for 
1943. 
Grande Duchesse Charlotte— Prop. 
rights res’d. A new color in roses. The 
buds are claret red, lightening to a 
lovely begonia-rose as the flower un- 
folds. Postpaid. Each $1.50. 
Mary Margaret McBride— Patent 
No. 537. Perfect buds open into large, 
double, high-centered blooms of coral 
pink suffused shimmering gold. Postpaid. 
Each $1.50. 
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The Doctor—This is considered by many to 
be the most beautifully colored of all pink 
roses. Mr. Fred Howard, the greatest living 
American rose hybridizer, considers it to be 
one of his greatest achievements. The long, 
pointed buds open into simply enormous, yet 
graceful, blooms, so fragrant that you can de- 
tect them many yards away. It isa pink with 
a life, an iridescence, a sheen that is beyond 
description. 
yet each flower is so perfect, so gorgeous, that 
you will consider it almost priceless. Postpaid. 
Each $1.00. 
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