DUMORTIER. Gallica. 4-5 feet. (Dee-mor-tee-ay’.) 
A many-petalled, wide-opening Gallica in light red, with silvery reflexes. 
Anxious as we are to reduce the number of our varieties .. . retaining only 
the best, we are reviving Dumortier—much too good in our growing field 
to be omitted and perhaps forgotten for all-time. 1.50 
DR. W. VAN FLEET. Climber. (1910.) 15 - 20 feet. ARS 87%. 
Very vigorous, with round-leafed handsome dark-green foliage. Blooms 
are large, double, fragrant, of an unusual delicate cameo-pink, on good 
cutting stems. Profuse in spring and early summer. 
“In Connecticut, Dr. Van Fleet far out-rivals any other climbing rose, in growth 
and bloom habit.”,—Diane de Bonneval. 1.50 
EGLANTINE. Sweetbrier Rose. (Ancient.) 8 - 10 feet. 
A tall, very strong-growing shrub rose with the unforgettable apple- 
scented foliage, and small single flowers in spring, ‘exquisite rosey-pink 
jewels, hung on crumpled green leather.’ Memories of sweet English 
country lanes, old legends, famous writings. 
We quote some mellow words—from “PLANTINGS AND RURAL ORNAMENT,” 
London, 1796 . 
“For nosegays, there is nothing more proper than sprigs of the Sweetbrier, when 
divested of its prickles; for they will not only have a good look as a fine green in 
the center of a posey, but will improve its odour, let the other flowers of which it is 
com posed be what they will.” 
And from Dean Hole in a “Book ABout Roses,” England, 1869, ‘So may 
the Sweetbrier, with no flowers to speak of, remind many a gaudy neighbor that 
fine feathers do not constitute a perfect bird, and that men have other senses as 
well as that of sight, to please ... the Eglantine to me, when I passed through 
‘The Sweet Garden,’ as it is called, just after a soft May shower, had the sweetest 
scent of them all.” 2.00 
EVEREST. H. Perpetual. (1927.) 5 - 6 feet. 
A rose of noble proportions, so very large and full, it must have the full 
sun to open at its handsome best. Given a place it likes, the great lemon- 
white blooms on long stems keep coming throughout the season... should 
feed and water heavily. This is a true aristocrat of rosedom! Could be 
“best in the show.” 3 for 4.50 each 1.75 
EXCELSA. (Rambler.) (The red Dorothy Perkins.) 12 - 18 feet. 
The great, almost solid mass of bloom on this rambler, rated officially 
“Tyrian-rose,’’ is of such a positive and dominating shade, should not be 
planted with any delicately tinted flowers. Makes a striking “garden 
accent. Perhaps ‘exclamation point’ would be a better name for it. 
Scared? 1.50 
FANNY BIAS. Gallica. (1819.) 4-5 feet. 
A fine, bushy, dark-green plant, producing mostly in clusters of fat buds, 
opening to double 3 inch blooms of soft warm pink, aging slowly to 
lovely mauve tones... “fragrance such as our first parents breathed in Eden.” 
2.00 
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