Michel's Hardy Garden Roses 
SELECT LIST OF OUTSTANDING ROSES 
Dormant Roses will be shippe 
d up to April 10, 1945. Orders after that date will be 
pot-grown Roses and deliveries will be made from the middle of May until the end of June, 
as long as the varieties are available. 
This select list of outstanding Roses, each $2.25; doz. $25.00 
CALIFORNIA. Plant Patent No. 449. The 
color is a shade of ruddy orange toned with 
saffron-yellow, with the exterior of the 
broad petals overlaid with saturn rose. 
The long pomted buds develop into 
flowers of enormous size which often are 5 
to 6 inches across. 
ECLIPSE. Plant Patent No. 172. The long, 
streamlined bud, often more than 2 inches 
long, enhanced by ornamental sepals, is 
of rich gold without shading. Vigorous, 
branching plants with healthy foliage and 
a free-blooming habit. The elegant buds are 
especially nice for boutonnieres. Eclipse is 
among the most popular Roses in America. 
By all means imclude it in your garden. 
* GRANDE DUCHESSE CHARLOTTE. 
Plant Pat. pending. The lovely burnt- 
carmine color of this Rose is unmatched 
by any other. The enchanting, stream- 
Iined buds come singly and freely on long 
wiry stems, making them excellent for 
cutting. When unfolding, the 25 petals 
recurve and make a delightfully informal, 
artistic flower with a hint of carnation 
fragrance. 


Rose, President Macia 

LOWELL THOMAS. New. Plant Pat- 
ent No. 595. Great 25-petaled lemon- 
chrome blooms open from beautiful 
buds and have a high center, with the 
petals rolling outward, making magnifi- 
cent golden flowers over 4 inches across 
when fully open. They have a slight tea 
fragrance. 
MARY MARGARET McBRIDE. Plant 
Patent No. 537. This flower is a most allur- 
ing rose-pink. The long buds have a yellow 
base and open to large 45-petaled blooms 
with a glowing rose-pink color. The petals 
stay upright, but the edges recurve grace- 
fully to add to the charm of this Rose. 
The hottest sun fails to spoil the color. 
Free blooming from spring to fall. 

PRESIDENT MACIA. Two-toned pink. 
The firm, long-pointed carmine-tinted 
buds open to great full-petaled, fra- 
grant blooms with the imside of the 
petals flesh-pink. 

Michell’s Select Hybrid Tea Roses 
All Select Hybrid Tea Roses, each $1.75; doz. $20.00 
Ami Quinard. Dainty buds of deep maroon 
unfold to beautiful urn-shaped flowers of 
black-Iustered red, with Damask fragrance. 
The petals are like shining crimson velvet. 
Very free in bloom. 
Christopher Stone. Alluring Damask fra- 
grance Is only one of the fascinations of this 
Rose, for it has Jong-pointed attractive 
buds that open to vivid scarlet flowers in 
early summer. In the fall the petalage in- 
creases and the flowers become crimson 
with blackish shadings. 
Girona. Propagation rights reserved. Lovely 
buds of Turkey-red and golden yellow, on 
12 to 18-inch stems, open to blooms of 20 
to 30 petals. The outside row of petals be- 
comes light Tyrian-rose and makes a lovely 
collar for the inner petals of soft golden yel- 
low—a charming color combination. Allur- 
ing, rich, attar-of-rose fragrance. 
Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria. An old va- 
riety but still one of the best. In color it 1s a 
soft pearly white, tinted with Iemon, 
Lady Ashtown. Pink. Long-pointed buds 
and perfect carmine-pink blooms with a 
golden underglow. 
McGredy’s Scarlet. The finely formed bud 
is red and opens slowly into a magnificent, 
very large bloom of just “‘red’”’ or deep rose- 
pink. If a partly opened flower is pulled 
apart, the inside of the petals will be found 
to be brilliant scarlet. 
Mme. Cochet-Cochet. Plant Patent No. 
129. The Iong, pointed buds open to large, 
semi-double, artistic coppery pink flowers 
that simply glow with a mass of golden 
anthers that reflect a golden shade on the 
inside petals. Rich honey-like fragrance. 

Mrs. Erskine Pembroke Thom. Long, 
shapely buds of large size, developing into 
full, double flowers of deep Jemon-yellow 
color and sweetly scented. 
Wirs. Pierre S. du Pont. Medium-sized, 
long-pointed buds of reddish gold, opening 
to semi-double, cupped, very lasting, fra- 
grant flowers of a deep golden yellow. A 
strong, vigorous, compact grower. 
Poinsettia. Plant Patent rights reserved. 
This Rose has semi-double flowers of a 
bright rich scarlet, produced freely during 
the whole season. 
Radiance. A Rose of American origin. It 
is an Ideal bedder, producing large flowers 
throughout the summer when many other 
varieties are out of bloom. In color it is a 
beautiful even shade of pink. 
Red Radiance. Counterpart of Radiance 
from which it is a sport, possessing all of the 
good points of that variety, but differing in 
color, which is bright certse-red. 
Soeur Therese. Each flower is fme for cut- 
ting as it comes on a wiry stem from 6 to 
8 inches in Iength. The buds are marked 
with carmine but the open blooms are clear 
buttercup-yellow. 
Talisman. Its combination of apricot, gold, 
and deep rose-pink gives a glittering mass 
of color over a long period of time. 
Texas Centennial. Plant Patent No. 162. 
This richly fragrant variety is a blood-red 
sport of the great President Herbert Hoover 
Rose, and has all the good qualities of its 
parent. 

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Hardy Hybrid Perpetual Roses 
Before the development of the Hybrid 
Teas, this was the most popular type for 
garden planting. For a while they were 
neglected but because of their great hardiness 
and the quantity of their large flowers, they 
are again becoming popular. Most of them 
are deliciously fragrant. 
Frau Karl Druschki. The flower is very 
double and opens to a pure snow-white. 
Growth is vigorous and the plant is a most 
prolific bloomer during the month of June. 
Scattering flowers often appear in the fall. 
Henry Nevard. Crimson-scarlet of fine large 
form; very fragrant. Very free flowering. 
All Hybrid Perpetual Roses, each $1.25 
Large-Flowering Polyantha or 
Floribunda Roses 
Betty Prior. Plant Patent No. 340. Large 
branching clusters of single two-tone red 
and pink blooms, resembling red dogwood 
in shape, size and color, are borne continu- 
ously on erect plants, 3 to 31% feet in height. 
Permanent Wave. Plant Patent No. 107. 
Wavy-petaled blooms of rich rose-pink 
come in clusters of six or more from unique, 
bronzy buds. Each flowering branch makes 
a long-lasting charming bouquet. Growth 
2 to 2% feet. 
Red Ripples. Plant Patent applied for. This 
thrilling beauty is sensational when gaily 
decorated with its open clusters of vivid 
scarlet, wavy-petaled blooms. The dainty 
stream-lined, scarlet buds make perfect 
boutonnieres. Height 214 feet. 

66 HENRY F. 
MICHELL CO., 
516 AND 518 MARKET ST., 
PHILADELPHIA 5, PA. 



