

© % Debonair 
1948 
THE NOVELTIES 

* GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY. H.T. (Mordi- 
gan.) Plant Pat. Pending. The new Rose of the 
year, named in celebration of our own Golden An- 
niversary. It took an outstanding Rose to carry 
that significant name, but this is an outstanding 
Rose. It is a sport of Good News, with flowers as 
handsomely formed but a fine, rich old-gold color, 
flushed orange-gold at times. Best of all, it is a 
golden Rose on a truly vigorous, well-branched 
plant with dense foliage right down to the ground! 
For the plant retains the sturdiness, shapeliness 
and leaf mass of its parent, all the more remarkable 
in a yellow Rose. The plants under test have 
bloomed heavily and continuously; no other H.T. 
In the entire test plot has been able to keep up 
with them. $2.50 ea.; 3 for $6.75. 


%*DEBONAIR. H.T. (Lammerts.) Plant Pat. 677. 
Yellow. Jaunty, perfect, yellow buds on a vigorous, 
compact plant with unusually handsome foliage. The 
beautiful, high-centered flowers open primrose-yellow, 
passing to butter-yellow. Dark, shiny, healthy foliage. 
$2 ea.; 3 for $5. 
*DIAMOND JUBILEE. H.T. 
ary fpplied For. All-America Award winner for 
XX 1948. This new winner is a Rose to be jubilant 
about—an exceptionally good plant that is lavish with 
its lovely blooms of soft peach-gold. The petals have a 
wonderfully heavy texture, and the flowers open slowly 
and Jast well on the bush or when cut. Blooms are 
double, high centered and fragrant. In habit of growth, 
vigor and disease resistance, the plant approached per- 
fection throughout its trials. The stems are long and 
straight, well covered with rich dark green foliage. $2 
ea.; 3 for $5. 
(Boerner.) Patent 
Rose Index, Page 39 
Star Rose-Growers * West Grove, Pa. 

© Ernie Pyle. 
* ERNIE PYLE. H.T. (Boerner.) Plant Pat. 673. 
Warm rose-pink flowers of good size and fine clear 
color distinguish this new Rose named to honor one 
of America’s best-loved war correspondents. A 
bushy, vigorous, healthy plant of medium height, it 
is said to have been developed from the hardy wild 
Rose of Alaska. Opening blooms are cup-shaped, 
suffused with yellow at the base of each petal; slow 
opening, long lasting, fine for cutting. $1.50 ea.; 
3 for $4. 
*FANTASTIQUE. H.T. (F. Meilland.) Plant 
Pat. 574. The 3%-inch flowers are light yellow, with 
each petal edge feathered carmine like a picotee 
tulip. Low growing and “different.”’ $1.25 ea.; 
3 for $3.35. 
*FRED EDMUNDS. H.T. (Meilland.) Plant 
WARS, Pat. 731. All-America Regional Award win- 
‘ner. Burnt-orange buds open to 50-petaled 
blooms of vivid, glowmg copper-orange, one of the 
most brilliant and beautiful of Roses. Fruity fra- 
grance; very shiny foliage. (One park superin- 
tendent was asked by a visitor if the leaves had been 
varnished!) Some growers have found this Rose 
difficult but others have found it one of the most 
brilliant novelties in years. $1.50 ea.; 3 for $4. 
* Fred Edmunds 


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