RUGOSA MAGNIFICA. H. Rugosa. 4-5 feet. 
Lives up to its resounding name... a spreading plant, handsomely fur- 
nished ... very hardy ... the deep carmine almost purple blooms appear 
throughout the season and very beautiful they are. Recommended to 
everybody, anywhere... you couldn’t be disappointed in this one. 1.75 
RUSKIN. H.Rugosa. (1928.) 4-5 feet 
Mrs. William A. Parks of South Bristol, Maine, writes with such all-out 
enthusiasm, I cannot find anything in her letter to omit. So I give you 
Ruskin, as it appears to Mrs. Parks on July 20, 1953... “Why there isn’t a 
bush of Ruskin in every home north of the Mason-Dixon Line, I don’t know. My 
bush is ten years old, and as my garden has expanded, the rose has been moved 
four times. I have never given it the slightest protection in winter; nor have I ever 
sprayed or dusted it against disease. But aside from hardiness and disease-resistance, 
I think it is the most beautiful rose in the world. The color is really red... very 
brilliant. The new-blown rose glows like a ruby. And such form! The outer 
petals relax as they do in “Picture” while the inner petals retain their high-centered 
bud-shape to the end. Ruskin has the rugosa fragrance, and such foliage! 
. . . bright emerald green. I find it blooms more heavily if I keep it down 
to three feet. It has given me literally dozens of blooms this month and will 
bloom again in September. A magnificent rose for cutting, coming in panicles, 
rugosa-fashion. I cut the first blooms in short stems and float them in bowls 
leaving the remaining buds which open two or three together ... these I can cut 
with long stems. Do please insist that everyone living in a cold climate gets 
Ruskin!” 
And so says the catalog-writer about all the Rugosas .. . a wonderful 
race of roses. If you live in sub-zero climate and have no Rugosas, 
Welll!??1] 1.79 
SAFRANO. Tea. (1839.) 3 - 4 feet. 
Again we quote the famous English authority, Wm. Paul—"Flowers saffron 
to apricot in the bud, changing to pale buff—large and double—cupped. A pretty 
and hardy variety, worthy of a place in every collection.” A famous, heavy- 
blooming old Tea rose which many will remember in ‘’Grandmother’s 
garden.” 1.50 
SANGUINAIRE. H. Rugosa. (1933.) 5 - 6 feet. 
Stalwart, erect shrub to 6 feet, with glossy foliage. Produces recurrently, 
a profuse crop of brilliant, oxblood-red, semi-double blooms, with pro- 
nounced golden stamens... admirable for hedge and ornamental plant- 
ing. io 
SARAH VAN FLEET. H. Rugosa. (1926.) 5 - 6 feet. 
Will call immediately on old customer and friend, Neville Miller, Palmer- 
ton, Pa., for description of the lovely Sarah—"Large, blush-pink, semi-double 
flowers, with hybrid tea form and intense nasturtium-rose fragrance ... blooms 
continuously in full sun. Among my favorite six old-type roses.” evi 
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