Gurney’ HYBRID 
TEA IX 
When our Roses are dug and brought in from the fields, 
grades 
we separate them into 3 
1. Select Two-year No. 1. 
2. Standard Two-year Medium. 
3. Light. 
Most nurseries make a separate grade of the Jumbo ones, 
and charge a premium for them. 
ones right in with the Select Two-year No. 1, 
the extra value. 
We put these extra large 
so you get 
We do not sell ‘“Light’’ grade. You wouldn't want them. 
We put those back in the ground to grow some more. 
Gurney's is a member of the American Association of 
Nurserymen, and our grading complies faithfully with their 
Horticultural Standards, You can’t buy any roses anywhere 
that are better, regardless of how much you pay. 
Gurney’s Prices for 
(Except George W. Gurney, 
Select 2-year No. 1..........+-.+++ 
Standard 2-yr. Medium............ 
Hybrid Tea Roses 
Patented, and Brownells) 
Each Per3 Per6 Per I2 
heeter 1.10 2.98 5.69 10.50 
wrap diate al 2.49 4.75 8.75 
Be sure to specify grade on your rose order. 
1 each of these 12 Roses: 
Poinsettia, Red Radiance, Cynthia, 
% Pink Radiance, Golden Charm, Pres. Hoover, Editor McFar- 
$ land, White 
Gredy’s Yellow and Talisman 
Radiance, Rouge Mallerin, K. A. Victoria, Me- 
$ 
> A2553X—I2 Select 2-yr. No. | Plants for 8.98, ppd. 
$ A2554X—12 Standard 2-yr. Medi 
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A2555X—} 
jum Plants for 7.80, ppd. 
Favorite Four 
CONTRAST 
A3514— One of the most 
beautiful Tea Roses, 
more beautiful than this pic- 
4 ture. It is a gorgeous rose of 
§, unusual color combination, and a 
* good grower. 
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Super Hardy 
So Hardy that We Guarantee Them to Live 
One Full Year Despite Your Climate 
These are the Brownell Hybrid Tea Roses which are 
becoming more popular every 
year because they won't 
kill out even if temperatures dip to 25 degrees below zero. 
t of all, they are free blooming, long-stemmed, with 
flowers that last a long time. Give far more blooms than 
ordinary hybrid teas. 
POSTPAID PRICES (Except 
2-year field grown plants: 
A3403 — Country Doctor. 
Brand new Brownell. Huge 
blooms on strong canes. Very 
resistant to black spot. 
A3424—YV for Victory. (Pat. 
No. 543.) Very large and double. 
A3400— Anne Vanderbilt. 
Semi-do . Fragrant. Blooms 
constantly. 
A3419—Shades of Autumn. 
Vigorous erower and resistant to 
spot. 
A3412— Lily Pons, Has an 
indescribably delicate beauty. 
A2502X—Special Brownell Collec- 
tion of 2- Jumbo Grade. 1 each 
Roe Visors nd Break O'Day Alt 
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for 6.50, postpaid. : 
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eae eae 1.75 5.00 
Select 1 Sogl Se Sea {.50 
ty Good 2-yr. Commercial Grade. .{.25 3.50 
A3416—Queen of the Lakes. 
Beautifully long 
pointed bud. Large, well shaped 
Strong straight stems. 
In Select Grade only, 2.00 each, 
Queen of the Lakes), all 
Each Per 3 Per 12 
4.25 
(2.75 
A new Brownell. 
flower. 
ppd. 
A3402 — Curly Pink. Fully 
double with curly petals. 
usual and very fine. 
A3421 — Tip Toes. 
like fragrance. 
A3401—Break O’Day. Large 
and very double. Blooms most of paid 
the time. Long, vigorous canes. 2 
yr. Commercial Grade 
_ Bushy plants covered with clusters of large, 
‘double roses just like regul 
ar Tea Roses. Brilliant- 
ly colored blooms cover the bushes from spring 
until frost. Use in rose bed, for borders, among 
evergreens or shrubs, or in any place you want a 
splash of color all summer. PRICES: 98c each; 3 
for 2.75; 6 for 5.10, postpaid. (Except Goldilocks 
and Lavender Pinocchio.) 
A3670—Red Lafayette. 
Stands dryness better 
than other roses. Fine cut 
flower. Long, pointed 
buds; wide spreading 
flowers. 
A3667—Lavender Pinoc- 
chio (Pat. Applied For). 
Really lavender colored— 
no fooling. Opens up an 
entirely new _ series of 
color arrangements both 
in garden and home. 2.00 
each; 3 for 5.00, ppd. 
'_A3656—Dagmar Spath. 
Clusters of large, semi- 
double blossoms. 
A3665—Goldilocks. (Pat. 
No. 672). Buds in many- 
§ Floribunda Collection 
§ A2630X—1 Cecil Brunner. 1 
Red Lafayette, 1 Dagmar Spath, 
i Seared 4 for only 3.39, 
flowered clusters that re- 
semble miniature tea 
roses. Gradually opens to 
full, large blooms. 1.50 
each; 3 for 3.75; {2 for 
15.00, ppd. 
A3657—Eutin. As many 
as 125 blossoms in one 
glowing cluster! 
A3658—Else Poulsen. 
Not illustrated. Big clus- 
ters of large blossoms of 
apple blossom pink. Al- 
ways in bloom. Hardy. 
Good for cemetery, bor- 
ders, beds. 
A36564—Cecil Brunner. 
Not illustrated. The 
“Sweetheart Rose.’’ Small, 
exquisite buds and flow- 
ers of light pink with yel- 
low base. Blooms all sum- 
mer. Fine in garden, 
beautiful for corsages and 
buttonhole bouquet. 
really 
Un- 
; : Long 
pointed buds opening into gor- 
geous tea roses. Enjoyable spice- 
A2503X—Special Collection of 2- 
Brownell 
Curly Pink, 1 Shades of 
Anne Vanderbilt, 
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Break O’Day—all 4 for 4.49, ppd. 
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We guarantee all Gurney’s Roses to 
be large, two-year-old, field-grown plants, 
healthy and free of disease. They are 
state and government inspected, and 
carefully handled, packed and shipped. 
We guarantee all Gurney’s hybrid tea 
roses will bloom the first year. 
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Hybrid PERPETUAL ROSES 
Prices: 98c each; 3 for 2.75; 6 for 5.10, ppd. 
Super hardy roses and the best roses for the 
northern midwest. Double blooms, very hardy. 
Bloom all summer. 
A3676—Pink Glory. Hardiest and most free 
blooming of all June Roses. This is an old, old 
rose that we don’t even know the name of so 
we have called it Pink Glory. Has huge, dou- 
ble, deep pink, fragrant roses lovely to see. 
Blooms in June only. 
A3476—American Beauty. Rose of romance. 
Large fragrant deep pink. No other rose will 
ever be better known or liked. 
A3481—F. K. Druschki. The perfect white 
rose, loaded in June and again in September. 
A3482—Gen. Jack (Jacqueminot) Deep glow- 
ing red. An old favorite still popular. Each 
branch just weighted down with flowers. 
A3491—Paul Neyron. Largest of all rose 
blossoms: sometimes as large as bread and 
butter plates. Pink. 
Hybrid Perpetual Rose Collection 
A2531X—1I each of all 5 of the above 
Hybrid Perpetual Roses for only 3.98, ppd. 
ROSE DUST 
Controls Black Spot, Mildew, 
Rust Mite and many chewing 
and sucking insects that af- 
flict roses. Keeps them clean 
and blooming. 
4063—% ib. in dust gun, 
75c; 3 lb. bag, 1.50. 
4064—Or % Ib. in dust gun 
plus 1% Ib. bag (2! Ibs. to- 
tal), both for 1.50. All Post- 
See Page 27 for ROSE- 
TONE, a formulation for 
growing roses with more 
luxuriant growth and ear- 
lier, better blooms. 
Pictured above is “Ideal,” described below. 
Everblooming POLYANTHUS Roses 
Prices: 89c ea.; 3 for 2.39; 6 for 4.19, post- 
paid. 
These are the extremely hardy bushy roses that 
are absolutely covered with blooms all summer. 
Very compact growing. To be used in rose beds, 
among shrubbery, grand for cemetery planting. 
Will stand a great deal of neglect and still give a 
great deal of showing all through the summer. 
A3660—Golden Salmon. Bright orange-scarlet 
flowers in huge clusters. Growth vigorous and 
bushy. First really orange Polyanthus. 
A3663—Ideal. Dark velvety crimson blooms. 
Compact and bushy with glossy leathery leaves in 
shapely trusses. Blooms profusely. 
A3653—Catherine Ziemet. An _ indispensable 
rose for the garden or perenial border. Always 
covered with its dainty little double white flowers 
in great clusters over clean fine cut foliage. 
A2622X —1 each of Golden Salmon, Ideal, 
Catherine Ziemet—all 3 for only 2.19, postpaid. 
“Northwest’s Largest Seed and Nursery House’’—GURNEY’S, Yankton, So. Dak. 
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* Below are six brand new items of nursery stock. But 
while anything new is interesting, we do not present these 
only because they are new. We offer them to you either 
because they are better, or because they fill a need that hasn’t 
been filled before. Each item already has been thoroughly tested. 
MORAINE 
LOCUST 
This is a vigorous, fast- 
growing, seedless tree shaped 
much like American Elm but 
not susceptible to disease. It 
is a clean tree with no ugly, 
dangerous’ thorns, 
fine that 
grass. 
Its branches arch up and 
out, giving it a wide-spread- 
ing vase shape that reaches 
above a two story house 
without obstructing the view 
Fine fo- 
liage makes plenty of cool 
or air circulation. 
shade, but lets enough sun- 
light through for good lawn 
growth, but not enough for 
crab grass growth. 
It will thrive 
years. It 
and no 
seed pods. The leaves are so 
when falling, they 
practically disappear into the 
in spite of 
smoke and soot, on all kinds 
of soil, in all kinds of weath- 
er, from Mexico to Canada, 
and should live hundreds of 
is hard wooded; 
This is a picture of a young Moraine Lo- 
cust. It soon will get more vase shaped. 
bends under strain of wind and snow but rarely breaks or splits. 
A4258—This tree is covered by Plant Patent No. 836, and the prices 
are standard throughout the U. S. They are: 5 to 6 ft. whips, 5.00; 
6 to 7 ft. branched sizes, 8.00 each; express not prepaid. 
A HARDY Orchid 
B82068—(Bletilla hyacinthina). 
A Chinese Terrestrial true or- 
chid. Has several 12” 
tial shade. 
plant. 
period, then starts again. 
each; 3 for 1.49, ppd. 
PARK—a New Black Raspberry 
A2854—The finest black-cap we have ever jn 
seen. Rigid tests have proved it superior to 
all other black raspberries. 
Des Moines, Iowa and discovered by a former 
secretary of the Iowa 
State Horticultural 
The berries are 
enormous, smooth, attrac- 
meaty, 
very rich in quality and 
: Plants are hardy, healthy, produce 
= enormous crops. Nearest to disease free rasp- 
berry we know of. 3 for 98c; 12 for 3.69; 25 
for 6.98; 100 for 19.75, postpaid. 
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Red Rich 
Strawberry 
See Page 20 for full description 
of this important new Strawberry. 
Hydrangea 
VINE... 
A3223 — (Hydrangea pe- 
tiolaris). We are very 
happy to be able to offer 
you this very fine vine this 
spring for the first time. 
Has beautiful snowy white 
blooms all summer, and.is 
one of the few vines that 
will climb on stone. It is 
slow growing when young, 
but moves rapidly once it 
gets started. Will climb 50 
feet or more. Best on north 
and west side of buildings 
where it does not get too 
much sun early in the 
spring. Needs rich soil. 
Strong pot plants, about 
18” high, 1.69 each, post- 
paid. 
45 
stems 
bearing up to 6 beautiful orchids. 
Can be grown successfully with 
average garden care. Likes par- 
Suggest that from 
Missouri north you take it in 
during winter, treat it as a house 
Has occasional dormant 
59c 
New Hardy Carnation 
CRIMSON KING 
B203!1—A brilliant new carna- 
tion of shining scarlet. Has fully 
double, crinkled petals. Blooms 
coritinuously all summer and has a 
rich clove fragrance. 49c each; 3 
for 1.19, postpaid. 
Originated at 
So- 
juicy, and 
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