“In gardening, the division between the amateur and the profes- 
sional is often but a matter of words or financial interest. The 
only real difference between one interested gardener and another 
is the time available for study, the seeing eye, and retentive 
memory.” —OLD GARDEN Roses 
Sow, 
Mme. Jules Bouche. H. Tea (1911.) Weare happy to have still another 
quote from our analytical rose-friend, Gordon Beals of Omaha—*With me, this 
one rates either at the top of them all or next to it. It has three qualities good and 
different, I’ve never seen stressed in a catalog description— 
1. It produces an exceptional number of blooms per season. 
2. Blooms have a blush center in spring, but are larger and pure white in late 
fall; petals have a sort of transluscense (you spell it) I haven’t seen in other roses. 
3. The stems, tho unusually thin and graceful, still hold the blooms upright, 
after a rainy day has pulled down to the ground, the big thick-stemmed varieties. 
4. (For good measure)—Out of 97 varieties including such good “smellers” 
as The Doctor, Will Rogers, Crimson Glory and Heart’s Desire—Mme. Jules has 
the sweetest fragrance, and, next to Gruss an Teplitz, the most powerful. Wonder 
if we could induce Mr. Beals to write ALL the catalogue descriptions for our “truth 
about a rose” critics. 
Bush and Climbing. 1.50 
Mme. Victor Verdier. H. Perpetual (1863.) “Classical” is the type 
for Madame. Everything about her is big, and curvey, from plant growth to the 
clusters of fat red buds, which cover her from top to toe over a long spring season. 
She stands (or better, sits) at the foot of the path leading to the hill garden; there is a 
“come-hither” about her which is almost a bit “bawdy”—if you will pardon the 
expression. (Gentlemen gardeners may safely order.) 1.50 
Mrs. Anthony Waterer. H. Rugosa. (1898.) We have viewed this 
beautiful and unusual rose under many conditions, here and elsewhere, and consider 
it one of the most interesting, in our collection. Plants are strong growers, the 
handsome ribbed foliage most attractive except in the late season, and its deep crim- 
son almost purple blooms are unlike any other rose we know. Intensely fragrant, 
profuse and constant flowering. 
Garden Notes, 1948. “Even the ‘anti-blue’ visitors stop to look at this royal- 
purple beauty, and when they get their first whiff of its exquisite fragrance, Mrs. 
Waterer is usually recorded on the ‘must’ list. Good friend, Dr. Marshall of Watson- 
ville, says this rose has the finest odor of anything in his large garden. ‘This is a real 
compliment; take a bow, my good lady.” 175 
Mrs. John Laing. H. Perpetual (1887.) | We quote from B & A catalogue, 
1948—"Clear pink; double; very sweet. Blooms continually; 45 petals.” Come now, 
Mr. Bobbink, is this description fair to a lovely lady? Still rated by us this season, 
among the most delicately, illusively beautiful roses in our display gardens—a satiny 
silver-pink, whose rare shade alas, will not show in the illustration included herein. 
Says master word-artist, Dean Hole—‘Not only in vigour, constancy and abun- 
dance, but in form and features, Beauty's Queen.” 1.50 
Mrs. Wakefield Christie-Miller. H. Tea (1909.) A McGredy crea- 
tion in rare tones of blush, salmon and vermilion-rose—seldom seen in today’s cata- 
logues, but much too fine to be lost in the rush of newer varieties. 
Supply limited until 1950. 1.50 
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