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BALLET GIRL (160043). Vigorous, upright but somewhat 
open growth to 7 feet. Leaves medium green. Flowers usu- 
ally 2 to 3 in head but often grouped in large masses, hose- 
in-hose, 2” across, Light Jasper Red, with blotch of 
Pomegranate Purple dots. General effect is orange red. 
Early to mid-April. 
BEACON (160085). Erect but eventually over-arching 
growth to 5 feet. Leaves rather narrow, dark green. 
Flowers 2 to 3 in head, 134” across, almost pure Rose 
Doree but in garden effect nearly Scarlet in color. Does 
not sunburn. Mid-April, early May. 
BETTINA (182866). Bush erect with ascending branches 
to about 5 feet. Leaves rather small, Kurume-like, medium 
green. Flowers 2 to 4 in head, heads often grouped, freely 
produced, 1142”-2” across, carmine. Mid-April. 
BISHOP (160120). Rather erect growth to 5 feet, eventually 
with broad top. Leaves not over 2” long, dark green. 
Flowers 2 to 5 in head, the heads sometimes clustered; 
1%4”-1142” across, rather symmetrical, margins waved. A 
Rose Color self, as the Tyrian Rose dots of the blotch 
count rather as a darkening hue. There is an underlying 
tone of yellow that enlivens the color. Anthers dark. Mid- 
to late April. 
BLIZZARD (163784). Bush habit broad spreading but prob- 
ably never over 5 feet. Leaves dark green. Flowers 1 to 3 
in head, 234”-3” across, a very fine white, chartreuse throat, 
wudier margins, very few Phlox Purple stripes. Mid- to late 
ay. 
BLUSHING MAID (160114). Rather open Kaempferi-like 
habit to 7 feet. Leaves medium green. Flowers usually 
3 to 5 in head, 2”-214” across, almost round, margins 
sinuate, between Thulite Pink and Spinel Pink. Late April, 
early May. 
BOLIVAR (163928). Spreading habit to 4 feet. Leaves dark 
green. Flowers 1 to 2 in head, freely produced, 234” across, 
broad lobes, Deep Rose Pink, blotch made up of distinct 
small dots of Tyrian Rose that give effect of a color stain. 
Mid- to late May. 
BOPEEP (160009). Rather erect to 5 feet, eventually spread- 
ing to 4 feet in diameter; leaves medium green. Flowers 2 
to 4 in head, heads sometimes clustered, single, 2”-214” 
across, white tinted from margins. The color tint is a little 
paler than Rose Pink. Dots in the blotch are deep Rose 
Pink. Blotch not solid but lateral from central axis and 
passing to side lobes. Carries in garden as tinted white. 
pay. flowering like its sister seedlings Dayspring and 
aress. 
BOUNTIFUL (163956). Bush habit rather broad spreading, 
but probably will reach 4 feet in height. Leaves medium 
green, hairy. Flowers 1 to 3 in head, 3” across, frilled, 
Phlox Purple, with blotch of Tyrian Rose dots. (‘‘Phlox 
Purple’ is a lavender pink). Early to mid-May. 
BOWMAN (163764). Bush habit, developing into broad- 
topped, densely twiggy form rather more broad than high 
but up to 5 feet. Leaves dark green. Flowers usually 1 to 
3 in head, freely produced, 2”-214” across, carmine pink. 
Mid-April. 
BRANGAENE (182868). Bush erect with ascending branches 
up to 7 feet. Leaves medium green, rather harsh. Flowers 
1 to 2 in head, heads often grouped, 2”-214” across, deli- 
cate rose with yellow undertone giving salmon effect, 
conspicuous blotch on upper lobe. Mid-April. 
BRAVO (163811). Bush habit somewhat more erect than 
most, somewhat like a taller Kurume, but not over 5 feet. 
Leaves smallish, dark green. Flowers 2 to 4 in head, very 
floriferous, 14%” across, Tyrian Pink, Tyrian Rose blotch, 
scarlet tube. Mid-May. 
BRIDAL VEIL (160006). Rather open, upright growth to 
5 feet. Leaves medium green, somewhat hairy. Flowers 
usually 2 to 5 in head, 3” across, somewhat starry. white 
with Chrysolite Green blotch on upper three lobes. Flowers 
here before R. mucronatum, or mid-April. 
BUCCANEER (141903). Erect to tall spreading to 5 feet. 
Leaves medium green. Flowers 2 to 4 in head, freely pro- 
duced, 2” across, a brilliant orange red with darker tone 
on upper lobe. Mid-April. Sunburns in the open. 
BURGUNDY (160003). Vigorous, upright growth, becoming 
spreading with age, to 6 feet. Leaves dark green. Flowers 
2 to 3 in head, 2” across, Rose Doree darkening to Nopal 
Red on margins, heavy blotch of Tyrian Rose on upper 
three lobes; carries as deep brownish red. Mid-April. 
CADENZA (163884). Bush habit low and broad spreading 
but probably up to 4 feet. Leaves medium green. Flowers 
1 to 3 in head, 2” across, extremely variable in the same 
plant. The original seedling plant is a ruffled white, lightly 
and irregularly flaked with few stripes of Magenta. This 
is the type propagated. These, like the parent, may throw 
out self-colored blooms of Rosolane Purple, at times with 
white center, that should be cut out. Mid-to late May. 
