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Frau Dagmar Hartopp Lipstick 
Shrub Te SES 
Grootendorst Each $1.75, Three $4.65, Doz. $18.60 
An improved variety having large, fringed, cherry-red flowers borne 
on a fine large, well foliaged bush. Excellent as a hedge. 
ROSA RUGOSA HYBRIDS 
Rugosa Roses are particularly valuable for hardiness, healthiness, and 
ability to thrive under most adverse conditions of soil and climate, 
withstanding almost anything. They are distinguished by erect, very spiny 
stems, and by their tough, curiously wrinkled or Rugosa foliage. Particularly 4 e a ce ae ME ~ +19 
valuable for hedge or shrubberies in seashore gardens and regions where Sir Thomas Lipton Each $1.75, Three $4.65, Doz. $18.60 
the winters are very severe. Many are everbloomers. It is one of the earliest Roses to bloom, starting to open its semi- 
Some of the hybrids do not have the true Rugosa foliage, but this does 
not mean that they are not as hardy. Nothing could be hardier than the 
Grootendorst type, yet their foliage does not appear to have much Rugosa 
in it. 
Planting Distance: Hedges—1'/% to 2 feet. Shrubs—3 to 4 feet. 
double, pure white blossoms in late May and continuing freely until late 
fall. The exceptionally fine fragrance alone qualifies it as a garden 
Rose. For hardiness, tolerance and usefulness, Sir Thomas Lipton has 
no equals. Maximum height 4 to 5 feet. Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois 
Test Garden Bulletin of July, 1940. 
Pruning: Shrub types—cut out old canes and shorten new canes to 4 feet. 
Height: 4 to 5 feet except where noted. 
Frau Dagmar Hartopp Each $2.00, Three $5.25, Doz. $21.00 
This is a fine new low growing Rugosa Rose, excellent for foreground 
planting or ground covering. Like all Rugosa Roses it loves the sea- 
shore and does remarkably well on the poor sandy soils which are 
usually found in such localities. The foliage is rich green and heavily 
crinkled, no black spot or 
similar troubles. The sil- 
very pink flowers are 
studded all over the 
plants and rise just above 
the foliage from early 
June until frost; will 
stand below zero tem- 
peratures. Plants are 
eae and hardy. An ROSA HUGONIS 
excellent Europe - 
riety of Fonent introduce | A splendid Rose for the shrubbery 
duction you will want border with delicate yellow, single flow- 
for those difficult places ers produced on long, arching sprays early 
not to mention for those in May; after it has finished flowering it 
sections cf the country remains an attractive decorative bush for 
where Hybrid Tea Roses the balance of the season; perfectly 
do not survive. Average | hardy. 
height about 12 to 18 eee WY) ete A 
inches. Each $1.75, Three $4.65, Doz. $18.60 
CNew Old-Fashioned DPosette Poses 
CRIMSON ROSETTE (Plant Patent No. 901) 
The crimson clusters of brilliant red Roses, acting as a hood or cloak, 
cover the dark green, heavily foliaged bushes in a continuous display 
of velvety red. The medium sized buds expanding slowly, finally cul- 
minate into open flowers of vivid crimson. Every flower in the spray, 
when fully expanded, is an exquisitely formed red rosette. Great vigor 
is manifested in the spreading clusters of crimson, ci 
the clusters lasting for days and days. 
Each $1.75, Three $4.65, Doz. $18.60 
PINK ROSETTE 
(Plant Patent No. 902) 
Pink Rosette definitely links together the glam- 
our and beauty of the present with the style and 
charm of the past. The sprays bearing many pure 
peach-pink buds unfold to open flowers of perfect 
Proportion and form, yet for all its up-to-the- 
SHRUB ROSE 
Lipstick Each $1.75, Three $4.65, Doz. $18.69 
A “shrub” Rose which will reach a height of 5 to 6 feet. It blooms 
continuously during the summer, forming large clusters of semi-double 
flowers. The color is a clear cerise 
with salmon shadings. This European 
variety certainly is a most interesting snl Rosette 
addition. There are so few tall grow- P 
ing Roses; it will be most welcome. 
Crimson Rosette 
» minute newness, there is about the Rose 
that indefinable quality that connects PINK 
‘ ROSETTE with the quaint style, primness and ?* 
beauty of Colonial charm. The plants are 
extra strong in growth. The deep green foli- 
age is excellent. One croo of flowers is fol- 
i lowed by another. The Rose lasts for days ea 
¢ when cut. 
Each $1.75, Three $4.65, Doz. $18.60 é 
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