"“@ohe ©Favorite CS&ix” 
Most rose catalogs are well sprinkled with Modern Roses, 
listed under such seductive titles as, ‘Famous Dozen,” “Fav- 
orite Three,” “Best Six,” etc., etc. But I had not seen a ’’Favor- 
ite Six’ of Old-fashioned Roses. 
9o...1 wrote to 25 widely-scattered, enthusiastic rosarians, 
known to have a large collection of old roses. They were 
asked this difficult question—'lTf, by some unkind fate, you 
were limited to six, what would be your favorite six old- 
fashioned roses?” (excluding Hybrid Teas and Floribundas). 
The replies were so entertaining and informative, I wish we 
had space herein for all of them. 
A total of 80 different varieties were reported. Perhaps in 
bulletins later, I will give them all to you, but for this catalog, I 
can list only those which were given by two or more rosar- 
ians, grouped as follows,— 
INGLUDED BY .51X Pink Grootendorst 
Austrian Copper *Stanwell Perpetual 
Crested Moss Varigata di Bologna 
BY FIVE BY TWO 
Frau Karl Druschki * Agnes 
Souvenir de la Malmaison Chestnut Rose 
IN Hee poe 
seas gate shee White Maman Cochet 
2h CM Meda d ale Mme. Louis Leveque (Moss) 
Georg Arends Pink Moss 
*Harison's Yellow Rose a Parfum de l'Hay 
Mermaid Raubritter 
Mme. Hardy Tausendschon 
*NOTE: Sorry, not available from us until next catalog. 
The novice with a new yen for some old-fashioned roses, 
will find excellent guidance here. 
“The true pleasure everywhere in every garden is the charm of individual interest 
—whether among the rough stones of the rockery, or in the sunny bit under an old 
wall, or in some other perhaps unfrequented corner of the garden, where grows 
some tender plant whose flowering is watched and waited for. It is the living, 
human love between us and our flowers; the love which impels us to return again 
and again to the same spot and never weary, whatever may be our favorite’s name— 
it is this intense feeling for his plants and this alone, that makes the place dear to 
the soul of the garden-lover.’—SyLvaNa’s LETTERS TO AN UNKNOWN FRIEND 
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