AHARS Means ~ 
America’s Finest Roses 
AARS stands for All-America Rose Selections, a national non- 
profit organization set up to scientifically test all new roses and 
to select the best of each year’s introductions for national awards. 
AARS is now recognized nationally and internationally as the 
most important rose testing Organization. 
All entries are planted for official test in 18 carefully selected All-America trial gardens scattered 
throughout America and representing each important rose growing climate and location. Eighteen 
of the most capable rose judges in this country score these new roses for a 2-year pet riod on a 
uniform point basis. At the end of each testing period, the scores are totaled and the top scoring 
rose or roses are then given All-America Awards. Any new rose origination from any country 
or from any entrant is eligible to compete. The final awards are strictly impartial and are baséd 
entirely on the merits of the roses in competition. You can be sure that any AARS Winner 
(designated in this Catalog by the AARS insignia) is a good rose because it has come out 
on top after a scientific, nationwide, competitive test. Each year the All-America jury becomes 
more exacting in its requirements and more discriminating in its annual selections. 




































1950 AARS Winner 
Bagatelle Winner 
SUTTERS GOLD 
After 100 years, gold is again discovered in California—this time by 
Armstrong Rose Hybridists in a striking, new, golden rose. Sutter's 
Gold is a fitting commemoration of the discovery of gold at Sutter’s 
Mill and of the 100th anniversary of California’s statehood. 
California can be justly proud of this golden daughter for it is the first 
rose ever to win both the top national and international awards. 
Sutter’s Gold has received an All-America Rose Selections Award for 
1950 for its performance in this most competitive and important of 
rose trials in America. In June 1948, it captured the Foreign Gold 
Medal of the famous Bagatelle Rose Trials in Paris. It is the first 
truly international winner. 
The outstanding feature of Sutter’s Gold is its beautiful, long-pointed 
yellow bud, richly shaded with orange and red. Because the plant is 
so strong, vigorous, and free-branching, it produces great quantities 
of these extraordinarily fine buds, each one borne on a long straight 
stem just right for cutting. An abundance of large glossy leaves makes 
the plant a handsome one. The flower has a rich Tea fragrance not 
found in any other yellow rose. The 24-petaled flowers are high- 
centered and richly colored when they burst open, but, sometimes in 
certain weathers, they tend to open quickly and lose their brilliancy, 
this being the only serious fault of the variety. Resistance to foliage 
trouble is a valuable characteristic of Sutter’s Gold. Originated in the 
Research Department of Armstrong Nurseries by H. C. Swim. Plant 
Pat. App. for. $2.50 each; 3 or more, $2.10 each. 
Two Bagatelle Gold Medals 
For the second year in a row, top honors at the famous 
Bagatelle International Rose Competition at Paris came 
to the Armstrong Nurseries when Sutter’s Gold won the 
Foreign Gold Medal in June 1948. One year previous, 
in June 1947, another Armstrong Rose, Applause, won 
the sole Gold Medal in the same competition. ‘This is 
the first time in autery that an American breeder has 
taken the Gold Medal 2 years in succession in competi- 
tion with the new roses of Europe and America. The 
Bagatelle Contest is sponsored by the Republic of France 
and the City of Paris. It has been in existence longer 
than any other similar trials. 
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