ROEDINGS QUALITY 
BUSH ROSES 
FOR 1954 
The list here presented is representative of the finest rose varieties ... the aristocratic 
names of roseland whose owners have faced the test of time and popular favor in 
California gardens to come through with flying colors. We can recommend them for a 
wide variety of uses. When you start right with Roeding’s Quality Bush Roses you 
can have as many as 300 or more blooms the first year from a dozen bushes. Plant 
from mid-December through March. 
FRED EDMUNDS 
APPLAUSE: (Plant Patent No. 829.) Winner of the Bagatelle Gold Medal 1947 
@ at the famous Bagatelle Gardens, France. The big fragrant buds are 
a sparkling, dazzling light red in color. The blooms open to a per- 
ARS fect shaped 50-petals, are heavy with fragrance. A descendent of 
the famous Charlotte Armstrong. $2.00 each; 3 or more $1.75 each. 
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BLANCHE MALLERIN: (Plant Patent No. 594.) A beautiful white, fragrant 
Hybrid Tea Rose, sometimes showing greenish reflections. Its streamlined buds 
come erect on healthy, upright plants and open to well-formed blooms 3¥2 to 
4 inches across. Lovely for cutting. $2.00 each; 3 or more $1.75 each. 
CALIFORNIA: (Plant Patent No. 449.) Long buds of unusual ruddy orange, 
toned with saffron yellow open to magnificent flowers; outer side 
(DP) of petals overlaid with saturn rose. A vigorous grower with healthy, 
Ae, glossy foliage; delicious fragrance. $1.50 each; 3 or more $1.30 
each. 
CECILE BRUNNER: Small pointed pink buds. $1.50 each; 3 or more $1.30 each. 
CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG: (Plant Patent No. 455.) Slender, long carmine-red 
buds open to magnificent spectrum-red flowers. Free-blooming plants 
are strong, vigorous, branching; foliage handsome. An excellent 
§ rose for cut flowers. $2.25 each; 3 or more $2.00 each. 
CRIMSON GLORY: Typical urn-shaped buds open to full well-formed, deep 
vivid crimson blooms. Highest rated red rose nationally. Delightfully fragrant. 
$1.75 each; 3 or more $1.55 each. 
ECLIPSE: (Plant Patent No. 172.) Clear yellow, profuse slender buds for cut- 
ting. National favorite yellow rose. $1.75 each; 3 or more $1.55 each. 
ETOILE DE HOLLANDE: Brilliant red, strong growing; quite resistant to mil- 
dew; fragrant. $1.50 each; 3 or more $1.30 each. 
FANDANGO: (Plant Patent No. 894.) Deep scarlet in the bud, the opening 
flowers are an unbelievably gay and bright Chinese red and they remain 
attractive until the last petal falls. $2.00 each; 3 or more $1.75 each. 
CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG 
ARS, 
FORTY-NINER: (Plant Patent No. 792.) A 1949 AARS. Its contrasting colors are 
startling in their brilliance, yet they blend together beautifully. A 
(Pr vivid Orient Red inside of petals, while the outside is a chrome 
AA yellow, changing to a straw yellow. The long buds open to a well- 
shaped bloom of 25-40 petals. $2.50 each; 3 or more $2.20 each. 
FRED EDMUNDS: (Plant Patent No. 731.) Beautiful buds of burnt- 
orange open to lasting blooms of reddish apricot aging to orange- 
AAIRS pink. Sturdy, glossy foliage. $2.00 each; 3 or more $1.75 each. 
GRAND DUCHESS CHARLOTTE: (Plant Patent No. 774.) Bud very long pointed, 
chestnut color; flower exceptionally large, double, full, unusually 
Kral lasting, bright tomato red, shaded geranium red on long, strong 
AAXRS stem. Large glossy foliage; vigorous, bushy. $2.00 each; 3 or more 
$1.75 each. 
HEART'S DESIRE: (Plant Patent No. 501.) Long-stemmed buds of superb form, 
opening to shapely blooms of pure luminous red, but the color is 
not all, there is no other rose so sweetly fragrant. $1.75 each; 3 or 
more $1.55 each. 
HORACE McFARLAND: (Plant Patent No. 730.) A magnificent rose with long- 
shaped light, coral-rred buds that open to luscious full-petaled 
(D> flowers of salmon-buff. Fruity fragrance. All-America for 1944. $2.00 
AAXRS cach; 3 or more $1.75 each. 
SATURNIA 
