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ENA HARKNESS $1.50 
This English rose is gaining in popularity for its excellent 
bright red color and velvety texture. It is most attractive 
in the bud and is fine for cutting although it is not too 
double in the open flower. Fine fragrance. Best in cool 
climates. 
ETOILE DE HOLLANDE $1.50 
One of the best of the red roses. A beautiful dark, velvety 
maroon red that seldom blues. Very fragrant and excel- 
lent as a cut flower. Growth sometimes rather slow the 
first year, after that a vigorous grower with an abun- 
dance of disease-resistant foliage. A prolific bloomer. 
EVEREST $1.50 
An excellent large flowered white hybrid perpetual of 
40-50 petals. Foliage is a soft green, clean, and semi- 
glossy. The flowers open to huge, flat blooms. Here is a 
white that will do well in warmer areas or in our fog 
belt along the coast. 
FANDANGO (Swim ’50) $2.00 
The bright scarlet buds of this fine rose open to brilliant 
cerise flowers that have a crisp, ruffled appearance. An 
early bloomer it has glossy foliage and makes a very 
compact and colorful show in your garden. Fragrance is 
mild. 
PLANT PAT. 894 
FIRST LOVE $2.29 
An outstanding new rose for profusion of bloom. The 
flowers are a dainty rose-pink shading to dawn pink and 
are borne singly on long stems. The buds are long, slender 
and urn-shaped with each of its 20-30 petals coming toa 
sharp point. Mild fragrance. Fine for cutting. 
PLANT PAT. 921 
FORT Y-NINER $2.50 
A most brilliant rose of vivid Oriental red with a reverse 
of chrome yellow changing to straw yellow. Buds are 
well shaped and have from 25 to 40 petals. Moderately 
fragrant. Plant is a strong grower with medium size, 
dark glossy foliage. A distinct novelty, which is at its 
best in the spring and fall. 
PLANT PAT. 792 
FRAU KARL DRUSCHKI $1.25 
This hybrid perpetual is one of the oldest in commerce 
today and one of the purest whites. The buds are large, 
long-pointed, tinged with carmine pink and open to snow- 
white blooms. At its best in the warmer climates. 
FRED EDMUNDS $2.00 
For our coastal regions and in the cooler climates, 
sp Fred Edmunds is a glorious rose. The slender 
pointed buds of burnt orange, open to beautiful roses 
of 25 petals of coppery orange changing to soft apricot. 
The plant is a moderate, bushy grower with beautiful 
glossy, dark green foliage. 
PLANT PAT, 731 
4 ALL-AMERICA ROSE SELECTION 
FRED HOWARD (Howard and Smith ’51) $2.50 
This 1952 All American Selection is an extremely vigor- 
ous grower. The foliage is glossy, quite disease resistant, 
and covers the large bush very well. The pale yellow to 
buff flowers are borne singly on sturdy stems. The flower 
is large and very double. 
PLANT PAT. 1006 
GIRONA $1.50 
A good strong grower of great productivity and fine fra- 
grance. The buds are long, pointed, of fine form, and are 
turkey red and golden yellow; a most pleasing combina- 
tion. The plant is a strong upright grower, with long, 
sturdy stems, having leathery, disease-resistant foliage. 
GOLDEN SCEPTER (Spek) $2.00 
A new golden yellow rose of profuse blooming habits. 
The buds are high-centered, semi-double, compact and 
of a deeper color than Eclipse. This is probably not too 
good an exhibition rose for the flowers tend to come in 
clusters. You will like it for its profusion of bloom. Foli- 
age is a dark, glossy green. Plants are open and free 
branching. 
PLANT PAT. 910 
GOOD NEWS (Meilland ’40) $2.00 
The buds of coppery pink open slowly to a very large 
double blossom of 60 or more petals of a soft, satiny, pale 
pink. The plants are vigorous and tend to grow tall but 
do not become “leggy” as the foliage is maintained to the 
ground. 
PLANT PAT. 426 
GRANDE DUCHESSE CHARLOTTE $2.00 
These long, claret red to chestnut red buds open to firm 
petalled blooms of tomato red. In the open flower the pet- 
als recurve to make a delightful relaxed rose of artistic 
beauty with a faint carnation fragrance. Plants are tall, 
vigorous, and well branched with blooms that are borne 
singly on sturdy stems. A good cutting rose. 
PLANT PAT. 774 
GRUSS an COBURG $1.50 
This rose seems to adapt itself especially well to difficult 
surroundings, such as partial shade, windy corners, etc. 
The very floriferous plants produce yellowish buff 
flowers with varying outside shades. An extremely vigor- 
ous bush, of an upright nature. A late bloomer and very 
fragrant. 
HELEN TRAUBEL (Swim 752) $2.75 
This lovely All American Selection will produce quanti- 
ties of luminous apricot to sparkling pink blossoms de- 
pending upon the weather. The buds are long, tapering, 
and open to a large full blown bloom of excellent fra- 
grance. The plant will be one of the largest in your garden 
with foliage that is disease resistant. It is an excellent 
bloomer and will produce quantities of blossoms the first 
year. 
PLANT PAT. 1028 
HINRICH GAEDE $1.50 
The bud is a clear nasturtium red opening to a large 
very double flower of orange red with a good fragrance. 
A most prolific bloomer; bush is a vigorous grower with 
glossy bronzy green foliage. 
