Castilian. (Rose of Castile.) One of the oldest roses known to history, 
truly ancient. Flower is large, double, soft deep pink, entrancingly fragrant with 
true attar of roses. Worthy an honored place in every old-fashioned garden . . . 
charming! 
Many were disappointed last year—now we should have enough to go 
‘round. 2.00 
Cherokee Rose. Demand has been so insistent, we are growing for 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 pref- 
erence. 
We have a fair quantity—zgsz. 2.00 
Chestnut Rose. (China.) R. Roxburghi Plena. (1825.) Probably the 
most unique rose in our gardens, and one of the most beautiful. Vigorous, up- 
right 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 
2% 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 bris- 
tles 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 ts 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..'—Krirty M. Simpson, 
SHREVEPORT. 2.00 
Chromatella. (Cloth of Gold.) Noisette. (1843.) A famous, old mem- 
ory rose, still found in Southern gardens, included herein for the many who have 
asked us for it. Not suited for severe winters,—a very vigorous and profuse 
climber for Southern California and all warm sections. “‘Round and deep, each 
flower resembles such a chalice of gold as Hebe might have presented to the Gods.’’—DEAN 
Hote. 1.35 
Clio. H. Perpetual. (1894.) Literally covered in spring with large, glo- 
bular, double blooms in satiny flesh-pink on long stems—repeats for us in fall. 
Awakened the interest of Hybrid Tea master-specialist, Harris B. Darcy of Aus- 
tin—who saw Clio in our growing fields—think he is beginning to suspect there 
may be other sorts than those ‘‘painted Geishas’’ (Hennessey) which are worthy 
of his ‘‘way with roses.”’ 1.50 
Comtesse Riza du Parc. Tea. (1876.) (Ree-zah-dieu-Parr.) Says Wil- 
liam Paul, “‘Flowers salmon-rose tinted with copper; large, full and globular,—a dis- 
tinct, effective and most floriferous variety..’ Thank you, Mr. Paul—your description 
needs no verbiage. 1.50 
Se 
A pleasing departure from the usual method of growing roses is the ‘pegging-down 
system. Grown this way, the long shoats are carefully bent down, horizontal to the ground, 
with hooked stout wire or pegs. Buds will then push out all along the shoots, and a corre- 
spondingly large number of blooms be obtained. —H. B. Ertwancer, 1882 
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