THE FAIRY 
A shrub-type rose growing broader than it is high and making a 
dense, ever-blooming hedge. Flowers are shell-pink and carried in 
huge sprays. Foliage is virtually disease proof. $1.25 each, 5 for 
$5.00. 
VALENTINE 
(Pat. 1029) A nice, new little fellow growing only 18 to 24 inches 
high, but making a sturdy, colorful hedge that is both dense and 
colorful. Flowers are bright red, 2% inches across, and borne in such 
big clusters that they cover the plant with color. $2.00 each, 3 
for $5.25. 
VOGUE 
(Pat. 926) An All America winner for 1952, this new floribunda is 
of a glowing rose, flushed with salmon. It grows 2% to 3 feet tall, 
has fine, dark green foliage, and a good fragrance, which is a rare 
thing thing in floribundas. $2.00 each, 3 for $5.25. 
YELLOW CECILE BRUNNER 
Sweetheart type flowers, but this time in a clear yellow climber, $1.35 
each, 3 for $3.25. 
CLIMBING YELLOW SWEETHEART 
(Pat. rights reserved) This is an improved Cecile Brunner type, which 
means both larger flowers and more of them, still preserving the 
Sweetheart form. Each $2.00, 3 for $5.25. 
Novelty Roses 
MINIATURES 
ESTRALIA 
Picked from the plant without foliage, you would hardly recognize 
this to be a rose flower, since it is so tiny. The petals are white, and 
they form a pert little single row around the yellow stamens at the 
center. Plants grow only 1 foot high, and are virtually ever-blooming. 
85c each, 3 for $2.00. 
OAKINGTON RUBY 
Blooms only one inch across when fully open, but a perfect, fully 
double, ruby-red flower. Plants grow just 8 inches tall, but are exact 
duplicates of the large roses in everything but size. May be grown 
in pots or outdoors. 85c each, 3 for $2.00. 
ROSA ROULETTI 
Imagine how pleased you'd be with a 6 to 8 inch high permanent 
edging or border of these hardly little bushes. Lots of perfect little 
bright pink fully double flowers about 1 inch across. These plants 
may be potted, too. 85c each, 3 for $2.00. 
GROUND COVER 
DANCING DOLL 
(Pat. rights reserved) Here’s a new rose and a new idea. This 
unique variety has prostrate branches from which flower stems dance 
daintily above the ground at a height of about 1% feet. Makes a 
marvelous ground cover, evergreen in the South, with a single plant 
spreading to 6 feet wide. Profuse blooms of the double polyantha 
type, in medium pink shade. Very glossy foliage. $1.50 each, 3 
for $3.90. 
MARSH'S Hybrid Tea ROSES 
AUTUMN 
Handsome buds of burnt orange, open flowers heavily suffused with 
russet-brown and bronzy-red on a background of rich yellow, remin- 
iscent of autumn foliage colors. $1.25 each, 5 for $5.00. 
BLANCHE MALLERIN 
(Pat. 594) Pure white, 3% to 4 inches across, satiny textured, and 
above all, really fragrant. Plants are upright and healthy. $2.00 
each, 3 for $5.25. 
BRAVO 
(Pat. 983) Big cardinal-red blooms that retain their color even in 
hottest weather. Their shapely petals lend added distinction to this 
fine new red rose. $2.25 each, 3 for $6.00. 
BUCCANEER 
(P.A.F.) New for 1953, this is a yellow rose that blooms steadily 
all season long, with buttercup yellow flowers that hold their color 
remarkably well. The plants are very tall and vigorous, sometimes 
reaching a height of 6 feet. $2.75 each, 3 for $7.20. 
CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL 
(Pat. 953) Glowing crimson blooms have the added attraction of a 
fine fragrance. Plants are nearly thornless, vigorous in growth, and 
produce very long-stemmed biooms. Foliage is coppery-green. $2.00 
each, 3 for $5.25. 
CAPISTRANO 
(Pat. 922) 1950 AIl America Award. Beautiful buds and open 
flowers all of clear pink without shading. Flowers are extremely 
large and full. Plants sturdy and vigorous with healthy foliage and 
long stems for cutting. $2.25 each, 3 for $6.00. 
CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG 
(Pat. 455) One of the most popular roses in the country, it pro- 
duces a steady succession of vivid cerise flowers from lovely carmine- 
red buds. Long-stemmed; dependable. $2.25 each, 3 for $6.00. 
1954 CATALOG 
CHIEF SEATTLE 
(Pat. 1030) Buds are of a delicious shade of warm orange, changing 
as the flower opens to an apricot-buff of pleasing softness. Blossoms 
are large, very double, and bloom well even in hot weather, Mildly 
fragrant. $2.50 each, 3 for $6.60. 
CHRISTOPHER STONE 
One of the finest red roses. Brilliant crimson-scarlet becoming deeper 
as the flower ages. Does not ‘‘blue’’ or fade in heat. $1.25 each, 
5 for $5.00. 
CHRYSLER IMPERIAL 
(P.A.F.) The All-America Selections winner for 1953 and one of the 
finest red roses of all time. Selected from a cross between Charlotte 
Armstrong and Mirandy, it carries the best characteristics of each. 
The buds are gorgeous in form and open very slowly into long-lasting, 
deep crimson-red flowers. The plants are large, vigorous and disease 
resistant. You'll enjoy this rose like no other in your garden. $2.75 
each, 3 for $7.20. 
CONTRAST 
A delightful and unique bi-color, with the outer side of the petals 
white, tinged with bronze, and the inside a superb shade of orange- 
rose. $1.25 each, 5 for $5.00. 
COLIN KELLY 
(Pat. 752) Our own introduction. Colin Kelly seems to be particu- 
larly well adapted to warm regions, where it outblooms many other 
roses. The color is a beautiful, lively pink, changing to cerise red 
according to the weather and the season. But it is the unforgetable 
fragrance of this rose which endears it to every gardener. If you 
like your roses good and sweet, then Colin Kelly is for you! Supply 
very limited this year. $1.75 each, 3 for $4.65. See illustration inside 
back cover. 
COUNTESS VANDAL 
Long pointed buds of coppery bronze suffused with soft gold open 
to large beautifully formed flowers with long pointed petals. No 
other rose is like it. Recognized as one of the finest. $1.25 each, 
5 for $5.00. 
