@5he hl ybrid ePerpetuals 
“The Hybrid Perpetuals are the old nobility, the stately blue-bloods of Rose 
aristocracy. The Hybrid Teas—the show girls, the debutantes and glamour girls 
of the Rose kingdom. Each have their place in the garden.” 
—GEorGE E. LippincoTT, GERMANTOWN, Pa. 
Probably Richard Thomson of Wynnewood, Penn., writes with more 
experience and enthusiasm about Hybrid Perpetuals than any amateur in 
the U. S. So I have asked him to comment on them for inclusion in this 
catalog, and especially to list the Hybrid Perpetuals he likes best. His 
reply follows,— 
DEAR WILL: Wynnewood, Pa. 
I hope my views may cause some of your nice people to try the Hybrid 
Perpetuals. While I grow a pretty big list of them, I also have a lot of 
Hybrid Teas, and I can assure you, the Hybrid Perpetuals can hold their 
own with the best of the moderns. 
There is something essentially masculine about them, which I go for 
instinctively. Sometimes I am fed-up with the ‘now you see it and now 
you don't’ colors of modern Hybrid Teas, and it is refreshing to go to the 
good solid colors of the Hybrid Perpetuals. They are husky, hardy and 
good-doers, and can survive treatment, both good and bad, which would 
murder an H. T. 
As for culture, I find if they are fed twice the amount an H. T. would 
thrive on and are kept wet, they will repeat their heads off. It is important 
to cut to a good strong eye when removing spent flowers or cutting for 
the house. They bloom as a rule, from existing wood, not from basal canes 
of the same season. If cut back to two or three eyes, I find the remaining 
stems will bloom again and again. 
Regarding varieties, my list is the result af a lot of weeding—some you 
do not grow, but should. (Thanks Dick—I will.) To do for me, a Hybrid 
Perpetual must give a pretty good summer and Fall show, as well as 
knocking itself out in the Spring. The blooms must be of a distinct and 
interesting color and hold well. Stems must be good length and the 
foliage strong. All I have listed so qualify in my own book. 
All in all Hybrid Perpetuals are among the finest roses in existence. 
People must not compare them with Hybrid Teas, for they just aren't the 
same. They will give great pleasure to others as they are doing fer me, 
if they are accepted for what they are—big, husky plants and blooms, 
with an open countenance and honest dispositions. Great, lusty roses 
with big appetites and thirsts. Feed them well and keep them wet, and 
you can't miss liking them. 
Here is my favorite list—In Pink Shades, Baroness Rothchild, Hon. Ina 
Bingham, Mrs. R. G. Sharman-Crawford, Louise Peyronney, Georg Arends, 
Mrs. John Laing, Paul Neyron, Marchioness of Londonderry, Arrillaga. In 
Red Shades, Henry Nevard, Marshall P. Wilder, Gloire de Ched. Guinoisseau, 
Victor Hugo, Black Prince, Prince Camille de Rohan, Captain Hayward, 
Duke of Edinburgh, General Jacqueminot, Triomphe de 1’Exposition. 
Sincerely, 
DICK (Richard B. Thomson) 
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