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AARS stands for All-America Rose Selections, a national non- 
profit organization set up to scientifically test all mew roses and 
to select the best in 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. 18 of 
the most capable rose judges score these new roses for a 2-year period 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 based 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 discriminating in its annual selections, so discrim- 
inating that it decided that no rose in the most recent competition was good enough to be given 
a 1951 All-America Award. Accordingly, the latest winners are those that won the 1950 Awards, 
Sutter’s Gold, Fashion, Capistrano, and Mission Bells. 
BUITER'® GOLD 
e AARS Winner 1950 
e Bagatelle Gold Medal 
e Geneva Gold Medal 
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 from any country to make almost a clean sweep of the top 
national and international awards. Sutter's Gold 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, and thus became the first truly international win- 
ner. The Bagatelle contest is sponsored by the Republic of France and 
the City of Paris. In June 1949, these honors were confirmed when it 
won the Gold Medal and the handsome Cup of Geneva at the Con- 
cours International de Roses Nouvelles de Geneve at Geneva, Switzer- 
land, which rates as one of the most thorough and comprehensive of 
rose competitions. 
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. 
Wherever it has been planted in this country—and it 
has been tried out now in almost every state—the same 
reports have come in, of a big lusty plant, long stems, 
and gloriously beautiful buds. Originated at Armstrong 
Nurseries by H. C. Swim. Plant Pat. No. 885. 
$2.00 each; 3 or more, $1.70 each. 
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