orange hips, lasting all winter, indoors or out ... In this altogether lovely rose, 
Kathleen, we have a simple beauty that even the hardened modern cannot resist. 
It is a descendant of the old Musk rose from which it gets its exquisite fragrance and 
from which it inherits its vigor and extraordinary resistance to neglect. I grow 
this rose in both deep shade and full sun, in good soil and in the poorest, and have 
come to greatly respect its tolerance for adverse conditions. Its flowers display an 
Open countenance and an intimate charm—the kind of rose that will talk to you, 
if you understand its language.” 1.75 
Kazanlik. R. Damascena. (Ancient.) This is the famed perfume rose of 
the Balkans, grown there for generations in the production of attar of roses. Flowers 
are semi-double, in clusters mostly three to five, about two inches across, rosy 
pink. Plant is bushy, spreading, about four feet tall, well shaped and “with a bright 
and happy look.” 2.00 
KofK. (Kitchener of Khartoum.) H. Tea. (1917.) Noted for its semi- 
double, dazzling scarlet blooms, over a long season, on a well-branched, healthy 
plant. If you are a lover of brilliant red roses (and what man isn’t) you will hunt 
through many catalogues to beat this one. 1.50 
La France. H. Tea. (1867.) This is the first Hybrid Tea variety, which 
alone, should justify a place of honor in every rose garden. But La France needs no 
historical interest to merit that honor—the large, very double, silvery pink blooms, 
delightfully fragrant, are reason enough. We quote again from Mrs. Keays in “Old 
Roses”—With pleasure we relate the ancestry of this lovely forerunner of a great 
class, a rose which ‘has staying powers which in horses and athletes win the race’ says 
Bravy, a Tea rose of 1848, cream white, large and full, symmetrical and fragrant, 
our so-quotable Dean Hole. From various sources we gather the story that Mme. 
beautiful and much admired, was pollenized with Mme. Victor Verdier a Hybrid 
Perpetual of 1863, carmine-crimson, large and full, fragrant and of globular shape, 
considered outstanding in that class of superb roses. The result was La France.” 1.75 
Lady Ashtown. H. Tea. (1904.) Mrs. Lester’s favorite rose-pink hybrid 
tea; large, double, fragrant, consistent bloomer, bushy, spreading habit, rich green 
foliage. 1.50 
Lady Forteviot. H. Tea. (1928.) A fine golden-yellow, touched with 
shades of tawny-brown; large, double, very fragrant; excellent blooming habit. Bush 
form is low growing, spreading; climber vigorous, but adaptable; striking bronze 
foliage. Highly regarded here and abroad. 
Both bush and climbing types available. 1.50 
Lady Hillingdon. Tea. (1910.) Nobody with an “‘anti-apricot complex” 
should be permitted to write descriptions of Lady Hillingdon and the many fine roses 
of similar hue; at best he will ‘damn them with faint praise.” Lady Hillingdon 
can take more “damning” than this humble writer could give her and still emerge 
one of our most popular tea roses, described by the authorities—‘“‘Bud long pointed; 
flower semi-double, open, fragrant, deep apricot-yellow. Foliage bronzy, bushy. 
Characteristic steady Tea blooming habit.” For the lovers of the apricot shades in 
roses—unexcelled. 1.50 
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