BELLE: ISIS: Gallica! -3 = 4:ieet:  {(Eee-sees:) 
From Belgium originally, comes this charming beauty—the prettiest flesh- 
pink, double blooms imaginable. 2.00 
BELLE OF PORTUGAL. Hybrid Gigantea. 20 feet. 
Rampant is the word for the ‘Portuguese Hussy.” Its great canes refuse 
to be confined, and from them hang in great profusion, enormous, semi- 
double, pale-pink blooms of rare beauty, over a long spring season only. 
Not hardy in severe climate, completely healthy elsewhere. 1:75 
BELLE BLANCA. H. Gigantea. 15 feet. 
This is the white Belle of Portugal, otherwise identical in habit and bloom. 
The long, curling buds open frequently to six inch blooms. Admirers of 
the pink should have Belle Blanca also, a beauty in white satin. TAG 
BESS LOVETT. Large Flowering Climber. 15 feet. 
Among the creations of the American hybridist, Dr. Walter van Fleet to 
whom we are indebted for several of the most beautiful climbing and 
shrub roses in this catalog. Produces over a long spring season, cup- 
formed, fragrant, large double flowers, in a distinctive light-red shade— 
glossy dark and healthy foliage. A very pretty lass is Bess. 1.50 
BLACK PRINCE. Hybrid Perpetual. (1866.) 4 - 5 feet. 
A large, cupped, full-petalled rose of darkest crimson, shaded black; 
especially fine fragrance. Vigorous, tall-growing and regal . . . blooms 
profusely, particularly handsome in fall. Likes full sun for greatest per- 
fection. One of the great roses of all time! Honesty requires an admis- 
sion—Black Prince is not at its best under most California conditions. 
“More years ago than I care to admit, we children were permitted to pick as many 
roses as our greedy little hands could hold, in a little park, willed to our city by a 
lady whose great love had been beautiful roses. Among them was a tall, fragrant, 
velvety red which was our favorite. When I grew older we moved away—and as I 
saw no roses like it anywhere, began to suspect my memory had painted too eloquent 
a picture. Imagine my delight when my Black Prince bloomed this spring and 
turned out to be that very same rose—only twice as lovely.’’-—Mrs. Mildred 
Couden. Indianapolis, Indiana. 2.90 
BLANC DOUBLE de COUBERT. H. Rugosa. (1892.) 3- 4 feet. 
(Blon-doobl-duh-Koo-bair.) Of active, spreading habit, with handsome 
rugose foliage, hardy anywhere. Its large semi-double flowers are ‘pure 
as sunshine glancing on a white dove’s wing,” delicately and deliciously 
scented. 
Purity and constancy—an oasis of cool delight among all the brilliant reds, 
vivid pinks and sun-drenched gold of the rose garden.”—Hortense Wild. 
3 for 4.50 each aire 
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