



The Only 
THORN- 
LESS 
Red Ever- 
blooming 
Hybrid Tea 
Rose. 
{ At Last 
A Thornless 
We are licensed distributors of the Rose 
“Festival” Thornless Rose. 
Imagine a hardy Hybrid Tea Rose with excellent foliage, 
fine growing habit, and extremely free blooming quality, 
brightest red color, and bearing magnificent 47-petaled, 
large, double blooms on long stems which are Free From 
Thorns! 
Almost makes you believe the milennium has arrived, 
doesn’t it? Well, it has as far as red Roses are concerned. 
No more thorns in your fingers when setting the plants out; 
no more thorns tearing at your clothes or 
flesh when spraying or cultivating plants; 
no more thorns to dig from your hands or 










Mies cent FOES 
A Bright 
Scarlet, 



Sport of 
the Famous 


| THORNLESS | | 
arms after cutting a bouquet of Roses. 
“Festival” gives you everything that is 
good in fine Roses—monthly blooming, 
hardiness of its parent, “E. G. Hill”, quick 
growth, abundant blooms all summer and 

U. S. Plant Patent No. 545 
TEOT VAL 
A bright scarlet, thornless sport of the 
famous “E. G. Hill” which is loved 
wherever good Roses are grown. 
The FIRST and ONLY THORNLESS 
red Hybrid Tea Rose. A brilliant sport 
of the famous “E. G. Hill”. All the hard- 
iness, good growing qualities and prolific 
blooming habit of its ancestor, but with 
the NEW QUALITY of having CANES 
FREE FROM THORNS. Truly ‘the 
marvel of the age in Rose development. 
Brightest red color; and will begin bloom- 
ing in six to eight weeks after planting. 
Produces abundantly from then on until 
freezing fall weather. We offer only 2- 
year, No. 1, field-grown and budded 
plants. See prices above. 
Stems as smooth as the branch 
of a willow. 
Copyright 1946 
R. M. Kellogg Company 
Three Rivers, Michigan 

fall, excellent bright red color, and NO 
THORNS. You'll be amazed at “Festival”, 
just as we were when we first ‘saw it. 
ar CHIL 



Guaranteed to bloom the first normal 
blooming season after planting. A festi- 
val of all that is good in fine Roses. 
Prices: 
Each *2.00 
3 for 5.50 
The Ideal Rose For 
Massed Plantings 
9799 
“Festival’s” bright red color makes a 
striking display when used for massed 
plantings. Its abundant blooming habit 
assures a supply of blooms practically 
every day of the season from June until 
frost. 
The $10,000 Rose 
The Krider Nurseries paid the remark- 
able sum of $10,000 for “Festival”, by 
far the largest sum ever paid for the pat- 
ent rights on any Rose. We think it was 
ey : : . Festival’, the Thornless Rose, 
worth it—-worth it to give you something with leaf stems left on. At right 
you have always dreamed of; a bright 4 section of stem of regular 
He : = Rese. “If thorns prick your 
red Hybrid Tea Everblooming Rose hands, it isn’t ‘Festival.’ ” 
without thorns. 
[2] 

At left a section of stem of 
