Michel's Hardy Garden Roses 
SELECT LIST OF OUTSTANDING ROSES 
Dormant Roses will be shipped up to April 10, 1946. 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. 
Price of Pot-grown Roses, each $2.00; 3 for $5.75, except where noted 
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. 
Betty Uprichard. Long-pointed buds, open- 
ing to large, long-lasting, very fragrant, 
salmon-pink flowers; reverse carmine with 
a coppery sheen. 
Blanche Mallerin. Plant Patent No. 594. 
Pure white, fragrant. The petals are as 
white as alabaster, with a live satiny sheen. 
The streamlined buds come erect on 
healthy, upright plants. Lovely for cut- 
ting. Each $2.50; 3 for $7.25. 
Christopher Stone. Alluring Damask fra- 
grance is only one of the fascinations of this 
Rose, for it has lIong-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. 
Condesa de Sastago. Fragrant yellow and 
raspberry-red bicolor. This gay Rose with 
the colors of sunny Spain will liven any 
planting. 
Countess Vandal. Plant Patent No. 38. 
Noted for the long tapering buds of orange- 
copper. Flowers are carried on long stems 
and last well. 
Crimson Glory. Plant Patent No. 105. 
Glorious in its perfect form, its size, and 
its fragrance. The deep vivid crimson, 
shaded ox-blood-red and finished with a 
velvety nap, is still ‘tops’? among red 
Roses. Each $2.50; 3 for $7.25. 
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 Amer- 
ica. By all means include it in your gar- 
den. Each $2.50; 3 for $7.25, 

Rose, Crimson Glory 
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Editor McFarland. Deep pink blooms. 
Vigorous, upright plants are freely fur- 
nished with beautifully modeled buds and 
fragrant blooms on strong, wiry stems. 
Etoile de Hollande. This Rose charms 
continuously with its delightful crimson 
color. One of the finest, most richly fragrant 
everblooming red Roses. 
Fred Edmunds. Plant Patent pending. 
Burnt-orange buds open to glorious 25- 
petaled blooms of vivid glowing coppery 
orange color, which slowly changes to 
soft apricot. Each $2.50; 3 for $7.25. 
Grande Duchesse Charlotte. Plant Pat- 
ent pending. The lovely burnt-carmine 
color of this Rose is unmatched by any 
other. The enchanting, streamlined 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. Each $2.50; 
3 for $7.25. 
Horace McFarland. Plant Patent pending. 
A Rose of beautiful exhibition form and 
glorious color. Deep apricot-colored buds 
open to rich buff-salmon, which changes 
slowly to a pleasing coral-pink. The flow- 
ers are large, of 40 to 45 petals which are 
also large, firm and long lasting. Strong 
stems hold the long, tapered buds firmly 
upright, well above the leathery foliage, 
making it an excellent variety for cutting. 
Plant of medium height; flowers spicily 
fragrant. Each $2.50; 3 for $7.25. 
Lady Ashtown. Long-pointed buds and 
perfect carmine-pink blooms with a golden 
underglow. 
Mme. Cochet-Cochet. Plant Patent No. 
129. The long, 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. 
Mme. Jules Bouche. Large, beautifully 
formed buds of creamy white open with a 
dainty flush of pink in the center of the 
flower. 
Mirandy. Plant Patent No. 632. Winner 
in All-America Rose Competition for 1945, 
Destined to 
Hybrid Tea for years to come. Has a 
splendid plant habit, the bush growing 
erect and symmetrical. It is clothed to the 
base with broad, olive-green, heavy- 
textured foliage. Huge, 50-petaled, deep 
crimson flowers open slowly from ovoid 
buds, often long-pomted, and filled with 
rich, penetrating Damask fragrance. Each 
$2.50; 3 for $7.25. 
Mrs. Erskine Pembroke Thom. Long, 
shapely buds of large size, developing into 
full, double flowers of deep lemon-yellow 
color; sweetly scented. 
Mrs. 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. 
Peace. See page 75 
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 cerise-red. 
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be a most popular crimson . 

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 ts a blood-red 
sport of the great President Herbert Hoover 
Rose, and has all the good qualities of its 
parent. 
Large-Flowering Polyantha or 
Floribunde Roses 
Each $1.50; 3 for $4.25, except where noted 
Betty Prior. Plant Patent No. 340. Large 
branching clusters of stnzle 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. 
Floradora. Plant Patent pending. For 
scintillating brilliance this new Rose sur- 
passes all others. The color is bright cinna- 
bar with shades of scarlet and geranium- 
red. It can only be matched by the most 
brilliant azaleas which bloom for two weeks 
in the spring, while the vivid, exciting 
blooms of this new Rose are borne con- 
tinuously for five months in the year. 
Permanent Wave. Plant Patent No. 107. 
Wavy-petaled blooms of rich rose-pink 
come in clusters of stx or more from unique, 
bronzy buds. Each flowering branch makes 
a long-lasting charming bouquet. Growth 
2 to 2% feet. 
Pinocchio. Plant Patent No. 484. Free- 
branching, continuous-blooming _ plants, 
withample dark green foliage, grow 20 to 24 
inches in height and provide quantities of 
exquisitely lovely, full-petaled blooms of 
salmon-pink, flushed with gold. As a 
border plant, Pinocchio is charming. The 
dainty blooms, coming in sprays, can be 
used for mass decorations. 
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 
streamlined, scarlet buds make perfect 
boutonnieres. Height 214 feet. 
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All Rose-lovers will be interested in the 
new introductions. When you know exactly 
what Red Radiance or Crimson Glory will 
do in your garden, then greater thrills are 
ahead when planting a Rose with a new name 
and a new plant habit. 
PA. 
