to GOOD ROSES je 
STANDARD ROSES 
‘The People’s Choice” or ‘Best by Long-time 
Test” might have headed this chapter. 
Every year we keep a record of the total number of 
plants ordered of each variety. This record is our 
guide when deciding which kinds to grow and how 
many of each. Kinds that fail to meet the popularity 
test and do not ‘‘take’” are dropped from our list. 
Sometimes we drop Roses in spite of their delightful 
color tones or exquisite ‘‘make-up”’ because they do 
not thrive with us and certainly cannot be expected to 
do so for an amateur. 
When the writer rates a new Rose, he has formed 
the habit of calling it a ‘‘5 or 10 or 25-year Rose,” de- 
pending upon what, in his judgment, is its anticipated 
life expectancy. How long will it continue in popular 
favor? Some new ones disappear from the catalogs 
in five years. In the following list are kinds that have 
for twenty, thirty, or forty years maintained a high 
rating of popular demand. Why? Because they dis- 
play to a marked degree extraordinary qualities of 
form, color, and fragrance of flower, vigor of growth 
and relative abundance of bloom. These are the 
kinds that continue indispensable after eliminating 
the less valuable sorts. 


@) ae - > + Ami 
ee eee Quinard 
*AMI QUINARD. ELT. @) Black-lustered red. 
This is the standard-bearer for the dark red Roses, 
with its alluring, richly colored petals of crimson- 
maroon that look like pieces of soft, luxurious velvet. 
Blackish buds open to semi-double flowers of velvety 
crimson-maroon with a soft black fuster. It has rich 
old-Rose fragrance. Strong, upright plant, almost 
matching the Radiance for vigor. $1 ea. 
Stim-u-Plant Tablets 
These plant-food tablets are handy to have, easy to 
use and odorless. This is an evenly proportioned 
. . 
fertilizer containing three essential elements, Nitrogen, 
Phosphoric Acid and Potash. A proved success for 
feeding Roses and other plants. 100 for 75 cts.; 
500 for $2.50; 1000 for $3.50, postpaid. 
{No further discount 
Star Rose-Growers * West Grove, Pa. 9 

yx Angels Mateu (@) 
* ANGELS MATEU. H.T. @) Plant Pat. 174: 
Orange-rose. Here is one of the most charming of the 
everblooming Roses with a color that is really en- 
chanting—a luscious orange-rose, distinct from all 
others. The flowers with their delicious red-raspberry 
fragrance are unusually Jarge; they are full-petaled, 
and make fine exhibition blooms. $1.25 ea.; 3 for 
$3.15.+ 
* APRICOT QUEEN. H.T. (Howard & Smith.) 
> Plant Pat. 464. A glorious Rose with long 
#% pointed buds that open to flowers of orange and 
apricot merging to salmony rose and phlox-pink. 
$1.25 ea. 
X*AUTUMN. H.T. Burnt-orange, red, orange, and 
pink. A rainbow of autumn’s glorious colors 1s what 
this splendid Rose produces during the growing season. 
The straight buds of deep burnt-orange open to 3-inch 
flowers of the same burnt-orange stained and splashed 
with red, orange, and various shades of pink. This Is 
a great cut-flower Rose. $1 ea. 


> California (G3) 
