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ROSES (Continued) 
PATENTED HYBRID TEA ROSES (Continued) Each 
10-19 20&Up 
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 1.121% 
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. 1.10 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 goid 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. _ 1.00 878 
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 upright. __--_---------___- 1.10 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 
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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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Cli. Peace. Patent No. 932 (Retail $2.50 each). Climbing form of the 
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