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PATENTED HYBRID TEA ROSES (Continued) Each 
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Mirandy. Patent No. 632 (Retail $2.25). 1945 All American Award winner. 
This gorgeous, fragrant red rose readily takes its place among the best 
reds of all time. The ovoid buds are deep rich dark red with black 
shadings, opening to lovely chrysanthemum-red velvety textured 
flowers of huge proportions. Its delicious fragrance will make you 
inhale deeply, for the damask perfume is the essence of rose perfection. 
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Mission Bells. Patent No. 923 (Retail $2.25 each). Pointed, well shaped 
buds are deep, glowing, salmon-pink, opening to flowers of clear 
shrimp-pink color. Rich fragrance. Big, strong heavily branched plant 
with attractive foliage. 1950 All American Award winner. 1.25 1.12% 
New Yorker. Patent No. 823 (Retail $2.00 each). Huge, high centered 
flowers of a clear, sparkling shade of red are produced in continuous 
succession. Has a delightful raspberry fragrance, and the heavy tex- 
tured petals hold their color. Plant is hardy and resists disease. 
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Nocturne. Patent No. 713 (Retail $2.00 each). Long pointed buds of perfect 
form open slowly to blooms of bright cardinal red with dark shadings. 
Coppery-red during very hot weather. Blooms have a unique form with 
wavy petal style. Fragrant. Vigorous plants. _..... 110 1.00 
Peace. Patent No. 591 (Retail $2.50 each). The only All American Selection 
of 1946. The ovoid buds are golden-yellow etched with pink. As they 
open they change from canary-yellow to pale gold to iridescent cream. 
The petals are edged with apple-blossom pink that deepens as the 
flower slowly opens to glorious 5 inch blooms, —......--.__ 1.40 1.25 
Rubaiyat. Patent No. 758 (Retail $1.75 each). Both the buds and flowers 
of this robust rose are extra large and have a damask-rose fragrance. 
The flowers are usually somewhat paler than the scintillating rose-red 
or crimson buds. Keeps up a never-ending succession of long-lasting 
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San Fernando. Patent No. 785 (Retail $1.75 each). A magnificent thirty- 
petaled rose of glowing currant-red, changing to bright glowing scarlet. 
Pronounced fragrance. AARS award winner for 1948. __ 1.00 87 
Show Girl. Patent No. 646 (Retail $2.00 each). Very beautiful, perfect, 
long, deep pink buds, almost carmine in the spring. Flowers are long 
lasting and have big heavy-textured petals. Tall plant with big heavy 
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Sutters Gold. Patent No. 885 (Retail $2.25 each). Beautiful, long pointed 
buds of yellow richly shaded with orange and red is outstanding fea- 
ture. Buds are borne in great quantities on long straight stems excellent 
for cutting. Flowers are high centered and richly colored with a tea 
fragrance. Plants are strong, vigorous and free branching. 1950 All 
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Taffeta. Patent No. 716 (Retail $2.00 each). Outstanding feature is ability 
to produce many long-stemmed, perfectly formed fragrant buds in rich 
pink and salmon shades. Color is generally a rich carmine-rose in the 
bud, begonia rose in the open flower. Pronounced fragrance. Plant is 
larger#than, average, vigorous and uprights 22 = 2 151.0 1.00 
Tally-ho. Patent No. 828 (Retail $2.00 each). Deep cardinal-red buds open 
slowly to exquisite fully double bi-colored flowers. Colors are not in 
great contrast. Inside of petals is varying and unusually delightful 
shade of pink; outside varies from crimson to cardinal-red. 1.10 1.00 
PATENTED CLIMBING 
Cli. Crimson Glory. Patent No. 736 (Retail $2.50 each). Bright crimson 
Glimbings Orinsofs bushyroses@rimson, Glory. eee ee eee 1.40 1.25 
Cli. Floradora. Patent No. 1054 (Retail $2.00 each). Climbing form of the 
very popular floribunda. Double scarlet and geranium red flowers in 
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