GEORG ARENDS—"'That Wondrous Story-Book Pink.” 
GEORG ARENDS. H. Perpetual. (1910.) 5 - 6 feet. 
Perhaps the most difficult rose in the catalog to describe . . . that ‘‘won- 
drous story-book pink’’...the unique satiny crinkle to the petals! ... Still 
remains the catalog-writer’s top favorite old rose of any class ... May | 
suggest you remove the label and rename it for the most delicately beaut- 
iful lady you ever knew. ey 
GLOIRE de DIJON. Climbing Tea. (1853.) 15 - 20 feet. (Glwawr-duh- 
Dee-Zhoan.) Says Austin Faricy of Cardiff, California—‘I hope you 
never decide to leave out of the catalog the Dean Hole paragraph (below) but 
you might add it doesn’t need an old English chapel to be happy. In a couple of 
years it will be the sole support of my aging lath-house.” Alas that we cannot 
hire the good Dean to write all our descriptions of old roses. We quote 
his writing in 1865 as follows—"I obey at once the legate of my Queen. I lose 
no time in stating that the best Climbing Rose with which I am acquainted is 
that which has just announced itself, Gloire de Dijon, commonly classed with the 
Tea scented China Roses, but more closely resembling the Noisette family in its 
robust growth and hardy constitution. Planted against a wall having a southern 
or eastern aspect, it grows, when once fairly established, with a wonderful luxur- 
iance. I have just measured a lateral on one of my plants, and of the last year’s 
growth, and found it to be 19 feet in length, and the bole of another at the base 
to be nearly ten inches in circumference. The latter grows on the chancel wall of 
my church, and has often had three hundred flowers upon it in full and simultan- 
eous bloom; nor will the reader desire to arraign me for superstitious practices 
before a judicial committee when he hears that to this Rose I make daily obeisance, 
because in passing into my church, I must duck to preserve my eyesight: Its flowers 
are the earliest and latest; it has symmetry, size, endurance, colour, fine tints— 
buff, yellow, orange, fawn, salmon, and perfume! It is what cricketers call an “all- 
rounder, good in every point for wall, arcade, pillar, standard, dwarf, en masse 
or singly.” 2.20 
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