Austrian Copper. Brier (1596). Says Louise Beebe Wilder in 1916— 
“The Austrian Copper is a true sweetbrier, with nicely scented leafage, and bears 
its wonderful burnished blossoms, vermillion on the underside and yellow on the 
upper surface in lavish profusion; it is the most brilliantly striking rose of my 
acquaintance.” It gives but once each season but that once is splendid indeed— 
unexcelled by any rose of any color for brilliancy and sparkle. 175 
Austrian Yellow. Identical with Austrian Copper just described, except 
its flowers are brilliant yellow, prettily shaped. These boon companions should be 
grown together—a gay pair. 1.75 
Banksia. While we have too few for the coming season to justify the cata- 
logue space required, we cannt resist quoting the delightful Dean Hole, whenever 
in such good form—"“Would that Burns had gazed and written upon the lovely 
little ‘Banksian Rose’. He would not have esteemed the wee modest daisy one iota 
the less—he was too true a florist for that—but he would have painted for us in 
musical words a charming portrait of this button-hole Venus, this petite mignonne, 
which, singly, would make a glorious bouquet for Queen Mab’s coachman, or, 
engroupe, a charming wreath for a doll’s wedding, such as I remember to have 
attended once in my childhood, when, horrible dictu! the bride upon her way to 
the altar, fell prone from her rocking horse (a nuptial grey) and broke her bridal 
nose... The yellow and White varieties—the latter having a sweet perfume, as 
though it had just returned from a visit to the violet-—should be in every collection 
of Mural roses.” 
Please specify white or yellow. 2.00 
Baronne Prevost. H. Perpetual (1842). Hale and hardy in all climates. 
Flowers are large, clear rose-pink, opening wide—blooms freely in spring and autum; 
needs space. 1.50 
Beauty of Glazenwood. (Fortune’s Double Yellow) Noisette (1845). 
Rose G. Kingsley writing from London in 1908, tells the story for us—‘That 
singularly beautiful rose, Beauty of Glazenwood, is classed among the Noisettes, 
though it has nothing but its beauty in common with them. Requires a very dry, 
warm situation, when, if it is never pruned, it will flower abundantly.” One of 
the first to bloom in this locality; its brilliant tones of yellow, orange and red, 
fairly shout a spring greeting from many an old cottage, barn and fence. 2.00 
Belinda. H. Musk (1936). Garden notes, 1948—“Very lively growth, 
dark emerald-green, long-pointed foliage. Blooms profusely in large trusses similar 
to the perennial phlox—counted two canes with 100 buds; starts bright rose-pink, 
with lighter centers, ages very slowly and pleasantly to mauve. Consider right up 
with the best of our newly tested roses—wonderful for hedge and neat pillars.” 2.00 
Belle of Portugal. H. Gigantea. Rampant is the word for the ‘Portugese 
Hussy.” Its great canes refuse to be confined, and from them hang in great profu- 
sion, enormous, semi-double, pale-pink blooms of rare beauty, over a long spring 
season only. Not hardy in severe climate, completely healthy elsewhere. 1.50 
Belle Blanca. H. Gigantea. This is the white Belle of Portugal, otherwise 
identical in habit and bloom. The long, curling buds open frequently to six inch 
blooms. Admirers of the pink should have Belle Blanca also, a beauty in white 
satin. 1.50 
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