added 42 adequately-tested new varieties to our list, including a few revivals and our own 
introductions for 1950. We present these with a good deal of confidence that you will be 
delighted with both their beauty and performance. 
Let me tell you about some of these beauties whose charms as seen last summer even 
now flash upon the inward eye: One of the biggest thrills of the season was Strawberry 
Peach, a pinky-buff of wonderful substance and marvelous ruffling. Patrol, a luscious 
golden-buff, was also a real bell-ringer. The still-very-new Pactolus is defiintely an eye- 
stopper in the garden and is probably destined to be grown more extensively than any 
other blotched variety in history excepting perhaps the old Mrs. Frank Pendleton. While 
we are on the buffs, I should also mention the oddly-marked Manchu which was a dream 
of a cut-flower last summer. 
Dark glads with white throats have always been scarce and never previously very 
outstanding. We found a good one in Carnival from Len Butt, the Canadian originator 
who has given us so many fine reds. Distinctive Tarawa is another scarlet beauty which 
we felt merited a place on our list. Salmony Cherry Jam surprised us with its quality 
last summer. Skyway is a truly halcyon pink that is going places as a commercial. In 
Sandman we found a smoky of more-than-usual beauty and in Twinkles a 200-size glad 
that you will all wish to have. Nila is another good thing in deep rose-red from that very 
modest introducer of so many good things, Robert Pruitt. 
Since my own offerings for 1950 are fully described elsewhere, I won’t take space to 
mention them here. But I would like to give you an interesting bit of history relating to 
our new color-gem, Little Gold. This first bloomed in 1937 and was so small that for 
many years I called it Lilliput. Propagation was nearly nil, but I saved it anyway for my 
own enjoyment. For ten years it refused to propagate. Then in 1948—coincident with 
the installation of our irrigation system—with less than a tray of stock at that time to 
start with, it suddenly became a runaway propagator, as it was again last summer. It also 
NOWETA ROSE Was in a Class by 
Itself in Our Trial Ground 

