Names for Musk Seedlings. After carefully considering all names submitted and customer comments 
thereon, we have decided on WIND CHIMES as best expressing the illusive quality of Musk Seedling No. 5, 
and MUSKETEER for the bigger and bolder blooms of the DOUBLE MUSK SEEDLING. We hope 
these names will enjoy majority approval. 
New Yorker H. T. patent 823. We have found to our sorrow that unpopular names frequently kill 
interest in worthy roses—so when New Yorker appeared brilliantly on the rose horizon, we reacted unfavor- 
ably and looked the other way—modestly (?), mind you, the catalog-writer being a native-born New 
Yorker himself. But this striking ‘“‘red, red” rose belongs to the nation . . . we succumb to customer 
pressure from all points . . . we agree it is a beauty and a grand performer! 3 for 5.25; Each 2.00 
Nora Cunningham. Climber. H. Tea. (1920). Still another good reason to be grateful to 
the great Australian hybridist, Allister Clark. We have yet to find a “dud” among his many creations. 
This is a vigorous, free-blooming climber, remontant with us, producing large, semi-double, flesh-pink 
blooms, paling to the center. Altogether charming. Each’ 1.75 
Opera Hosts Patent 1017. Fresh over from la belle France, and bedecked with Gold Medals in inter- 
national competition at Bagatelle, London and Geneva. Brilliant scarlet, suffused golden at the base, beautifully 
formed and very richly colored. “Thirty million Frenchman can’t be wrong,’ not to mention the Swiss 
and the British. \ 3 for 5.25; Each 2.00 
Pink Satin. H. Tea. A very hardy hybrid tea with Floribunda blooming and growth habit .. . 
compact, bushy, moderate height. Produces in constant profusion, clear rose-pink, large cupped blooms with 
showy golden stamens. Highly endorsed by one of our favorite nurserymen, Bobbink & Atkins, and 
much admired by us. Each 1.50 
Portadown Fragrance. H. Tea. (1931). Thanks to the special interest of the late Dr. 
John Gage, we have revived for discriminating rosarians, one of the best of the McGready Irish creations, 
in brilliant and most unusual tones of orange-scarlet, and salmon-pink . .. verbena and tea fragrance. 
Have enough only for the connoisseurs in 1953. Each 2.00 
Stella Polaris. 4. Rugosa. A very free-blooming, single, silvery white rugosa which competes with 
rugosa Blanc Double Coubert for first honors in its color and class. Produces those big orange hips, so 
handsome in fall. The catalog-writer cannot decide between them ... we can grow but one... will 
customers please make the decision. Each 1.75 
This Addenda will serve to announce the retirement of Mrs. Marjorie W. Lester from 
the partnership of Lester & Tillotson Rose Gardens, effective at the close of season 1952. 
Mrs. Lester will continue to greet visitors in her picturesque garden of old roses, on the 
Brown Valley Road, Watsonville, at its best from mid-May to July Ist. 
The business will carry on under the direction of Will Tillotson, ably assisted by “Hon. 
Secretary,” Mrs. Dorothy Stemler, and the same crew, whose fine packaging received 
many compliments this year. 
Will Tillotson assumes full responsibility for orders already confirmed by the partner- 
ship, together with credits, replacements, etc. The all-important details of shipping 
advices and correspondence pertaining to orders, will be centralized under one direction, 
to the great improvement of our service to customers. 
No rose-grower escapes occasional bad luck . . . there are good and not-so-good 
seasons for all of us, and perfection remains an ideal to strive for. No-one trys harder 
than we to do the job right, and to merit the continued confidence of those who buy 
our roses. 
In closing, the “‘catalog-writer” is reminded of the words written in our first catalog, 
1946, following the death of one of the rose-world’s great gentlemen, Francis E. Lester, 
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