GREEN ROSE—Ovr “‘Uc ty DuckLinG”™’ 
Green Rose. (1856.) Whenever we book an order for this rose, we are 
fearful lest our good customer may be expecting something in form and substance 
like Crimson Glory, except in sea-foam green or Chinese Jade. Certainly this rose 
is an interesting novelty,—but for beauty, it has only “‘ugh!’’ Its flowers are no 
flowers at ali but a strange and quite unexplained freak of foliage; the buds open 
to double leaf green ‘‘flowers,’’ edged with bronze. 
“The Green Rose, my ‘ugly duckling’ is now growing splendidly and ‘blooming’ prolzfi- 
cally. When about half open it is an arresting foil for small bud corsages. I use it with 
Floradora and always make a ‘conversation piece’ .’'—Hortense Wild, Cary, Illinois. 
“A strange thing happened to my Green Rose. Planted in the front of my display gar- 
den, it attracted much attention. One customer in particular was so interested she offered 
$20.00 for it (gosh!). One morning, I arrived at the nursery to find a large hole where the 
Green Rose had been, and a five dollar bill tucked under the door.’’—Mrs. Gertrude 
Guthrie, Magic Gardens, Wilmington, California. Will either the twenty dollar, 
or even the five dollar lady contact us immediately, please. V3 
Gros Provins Panache. Gallica. (Grow-Prov-van Pa-nash-ay.) With 
our addition of still more striped varieties, competition for first honors waxes a 
bit warmer this season. Last summer, good customer, Walter T. Bauer of Bremen, 
Indiana, made these comments,—"*. . . produced some of the finest striped roses I have 
ever seen on bush or in picture. While I do not know all the Gallicas, I wonder if any striped 
rose could be more beautiful.’’ Our husky field plants have been loaded with those 
big double blooms in ‘‘raspberries and cream.”’ The catalog-writer was born 
stubborn and loyal—and Variegata di Bologna was his first “striped love’’ but 
think he could be tempted by ‘“‘Grow-Proy-van Pa-nash-ay.’’ (Unknown to- 
Variegata, of course.) 1.50 
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The more subtle and less easily precetvable its fragrance, the more noble the flower may 
be regarded.”’ —Lin YuTANG 
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