MRS. SAM McGREDY—One of the most satisfactory roses when grown from my 
plants. It is difficult in the midwestern states unless it has afternoon shade. I know 
that one of my customers won a sweepstake with it in a midwestern show a year 
ago and I list it in show roses even though it is one of the most popular garden 
roses. It is still a very heavy show winner. Because of poor reports from it when 
grown from other sources I have previously been cataloging it as not for the hot 
middle states. But since so. many of my customers have contradicted me that I now 
believe that plant quality has a lot to do with the performance of the variety. It has 
long, pointed, scarlet-copper buds opening to a double high centered bloom with 
every petal edge rolled back at the edge—its open color is apricot to salmon pink, 
DECOM TOP W EATEN tee Ree OF Wes re t8S oe oe EN ee: es et ee $1.50 
SIX DOLLAR SPECIAL — Now All Postpaid 
This is my second grade of plants. Some are not named for various. reasons 
such as mixtures in the field or quantities too small to catalog and too small to go into 
my top grade listings or for the reason that the roots may be cut short. In a word, most 
of these will in time equal my top grade but usually not the first season. This offer is 
good only for Washington and Oregon coastal areas—not for the mountain areas or the 
rest of the U. S. If you order them ignoring this selling instruction, your money will be 
refunded without explanation. You will have my usual generous count of a dozen plants. 
These must be taken as put up or not at all as they are put up in about fifty bundles 
at a time. Do not ask for description of any variety you find in them that ‘you do not 
know—if you do not want to buy them this way, O.K. There are no Polyanthas in these, 
but usually there will be one climber. I suggest that you ask others about the value of 
these special dozens, and I promise you that you will be more than pleased if you have 
ever bought rose plants before from any dealer. Indeed most of these will do as well 
as the top grade from other sources. These bundles will have a complete color range, 
although there will be some coastal varieties mixed with them. 
COLOR DESCRIPTIONS 
There is much confusion as many people do not know what color is which. Here is 
a very limited help. 
A pastel shade is not simply a soft color but one which has a certain amount of 
neutral gray in its composition. 
Crimson is spectrum red with a certain amount of blue as well as black to darken it. 
Scarlet is spectrum red with yellow in varying amounts, thus the best color of 
Christopher Stone is a blackish scarlet, that is a scarlet darkened to make it very rich. 
‘Salmon is a pale spectrum red or it could be called a very deep pink with enough 
orange to make the color. 
Coral is an orange scarlet with a salmon cast. 
Peach is scarcely a description as it varies with the imagination of the user. 
Cream is a very pale yellow with a touch of Sienna. 
There will be constantly put before you a flood of new names with a lot of ballyhoo 
and I will not even try to have the most of them as they are simply slight variations 
without being any better varieties and in some cases the rose will be inferior to existing 
varieties. I knew this would happen quite a few years ago when I desperately sought 
to keep the American rose society in the hands of the amateurs and have a privately 
owned test Garden, but with the death of Marion Hatton and this surge of greed that 
grips the world it is now indirectly controlled by the few big rose interests with no check 
or rein on introduction of new varieties in their relation to existing varieties. 
