Castilian. (Rose of Castile) Ancient. One of the oldest roses known to 
history—truly the Rose of Romance. Flower is double, soft pink, entrancingly 
fragrant with the true attar of roses. In our damp location, Castilian cannot open 
to perfection, but customer reports are enthusiastic elsewhere. Worth an honored 
place in every old-fashioned garden, if for its perfume alone. 1575 
Champion of the World. H. Perpetual. (1894.) The offspring of good 
old Hermosa and Magna Charta. When the writer first noticed this old-fashioned, 
double, pink rose, on a visit to the Lester Gardens, he remarked—‘‘What is this 
lovely, delicate old-timer.” ‘Champion of the World,” I was told. Shades of John 
L. Sullivan! Why do some beautiful roses carry such incongruous names? 1.75 
Chaplin’s Pink Climber. Says its originator, Chaplin Bros. Ltd., Wal- 
tham Cross, England, in 1933, “A very striking pink, maintaining its colour 
to the last. Produces large trusses of medium-sized semi-double flowers, which 
remain on the plants for a long time, from the middle of June onwards, with 
occasional flowers in the autumn, altogether making a grand display. Handsome, 
glossy foliage and quite hardy. Awards—Gold Medal, N.R.S., Cory Cup for the 
best new climbing rose, Award of Merit, Royal Horticultural Society. It is the 
best pink climber ever raised.” Pretty strong statement for a conservative Britisher, 
we agree, but its beauty on the summer house each spring places it among our favor- 
ite climbers. We ae: 
Cherokee Rose. Demand has been so insistent, we can now furnish to the 
first who order a very limited supply of this lovely climber in white, red or pink. 
The beauty of its large single blooms and handsome “varnished” foliage is too 
well-known and loved to need added comment here. 
Please specify color preference. 1.75 
Chestnut Rose. (China.) R. Roxburghi. (1825.) Probably the most 
unique rose in our gardens, and one of the most beautiful. Vigorous, upright grower, 
with rich green foliage resembling the leaves of the locust tree, abundantly grown 
from the gray-green stalks. Ours is the double variety, about 21% inch blooms of a 
lovely but indescribable rose-pink, shading lighter to the edges. “They resemble 
the French artificial roses we used to wear on our straw hats,” says Mrs. Keays, in 
“Old Roses.” Both buds and hips are so covered with bristles as to closely resemble ‘ 
a chestnut burr. With us, always in bloom; a truly remarkable rose. 
“I could do a better description of your Chestnut Rose than yours, because I 
would add that in winter when it sheds its leaves, it still is beautiful with its gray- 
green mottled branches, the large lower branches shedding bark almost white like 
a sycamore, and the bush itself making a lacy pattern like a lovely lace doily.” 
—Kitty M. Smpson, SHREVEPORT. 2.00 
GhOMTHNE: (1894.) Produces freely, large globular blooms of satin flesh- 
pink, on long, graceful stems. Aroused the enthusiasm of old-rose master Roy 
Shepherd, Medina, Ohio, whose many thousand varieties leave him a bit blase to 
any but the best. LD 
Clytemnestra. H. Musk. (1915.) A healthy, happy and very active 
climbing or pillar rose, blooming profusely and constantly throughout the entire 
season; its salmon-chamois, semi-double blooms come in clusters up to 20—mighty 
pretty, especially in fall, needing only an occasional snip of the pruning shears, 
when the old blooms are over-persistent. 1.75 
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