MRS. ANTHONY WATERER—‘'So Very Mauve DeEcapDeE”’ 
Mme. Gregoire Staechlin. (Spanish Beauty.) Creation’ of the famed 
Spanish expert, Pedro Dot. A very lusty, climbing hybrid perpetual, blooming 
lavishly from laterals in spring and early summer. “‘Its fairy-airy pink loveliness 
reminds one of that sweet young thing who passes you at garden parties, looking 
cool, fresh, and altogether charming, in organdie and garden hat, while you are 
perspiring in your best wool Sunday suit. 
Voted among the first ten large flowered climbers by the National Rose So- 
ciety, England, 1950. 
“Surely one of the most exquisitely formed, delicately complexioned of all roses.’'— 
Mrs. John Gibbs, Conn. 1.50 
Mme. Victor Verdier. H. Perpetual. (1866.) In spite of Mrs. Gibbs’ 
charming Victorian word portrait—and my assurances in last year’s catalog, 
“gentlemen gardeners’ do not have the courage to order the ‘‘come hither”’ 
Mme. Verdier. We drop this buxom lady from our collection (of roses) with deep 
regret. You will find her in Collectors’ Items,—just a few for the courageous. 
Mrs. Anthony Waterer. H. Rugosa. (1898.) We discard our own pro- 
saic description for fresher and more entertaining words. From Aulton B. Smith, 
Charlotte, N. C.—'‘Our selection of 23 plants of Mrs. Waterer, thanks to your advice, 
was most excellent. Altho planted late, they sprang to life, showered us with those deli ght- 
fully fragrant, crimson-purple blooms, and now have closed the gap of four foot plantings, 
reaching a height of three feet, for the perfect driveway hedge we wanted. They are wonderful 
plants and have amazed those who have watched them grow. 
And from San Marino, Cal.—"‘I could never pass Mrs. Waterer without a smile. 
She always seemed to me an Edwardian dowager in lavender ruffles, ensconced on a green 
plush sofa—so very mauve decade, so very ladyltke."’ 
Again from San Marino, Spring, 1951,—‘‘Mrs. Anthony Waterer is bestrewed with 
her inimitable purple tissue adornments. When I read in the catalo g of Mr. Smith having 
a hedge of 20 I felt as tho it were impossible,—like having duplicates of your favorite 
great aunt.’ 3 for 4.00 each 1.50 
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