GOLDILOCKS. Floribunda. Patent 672. ARS 79%. 2-22 feet. 
Bushy, spreading plant, with bright glossy foliage; blooms in panicles of 
five to ten; crisp, well-curled buds open to 2¥2 inch flowers of bright, butter- 
cup yellow, fading more gracefully than most yellows in this class. Made 
a 79% National rating—after five years and 347 reports. If you will give 
Goldilocks a little help in ‘shedding its dead,” we believe this is still the 
best all-round yellow polyantha for low border and mass planting. 
‘Held its rich color well, even in the strong sunlight of our hot California 
valley,” says Lila McCombs. And Hortense Wild “buttons up” the descrip- 
tion with the following—"Goldilocks at each end of my red Floribunda planting, 
gave it just the neatly gold-buttoned effect, I had pictured.” 3 for 4.00 each 1.50 
GRUSS AN AACHEN. Floribunda. 2 feet. 
Tastes differ in all things including roses, and it is the duty of the catalog- 
writer to give the honest facts and keep his personal preferences in the 
background. But I find it difficult to be merely statistical about Gruss an 
Aachen. The big, lush, cupped blooms which hold so much rose beauty, 
may not be the last word in rose fashion, but for ‘all-season, lavish, pearly- 
pink loveliness, ‘Hortense Wild and the catalog-writer agree, still the best 
low bedder. 3 for 3.85 each 1.50 
INDEPENDENCE. Floribunda. Patent 1036. ARS 80%. 2 feet. 
Fifty-four widely scattered reports give this recent Floribunda an eighty 
point rating. ‘’Fire-cracker red” says expert grower, O. L. Weeks of On- 
tario, California. The flowers of Hybrid Tea form are larger and more 
double than is found usually in this brilliant color, also many come singly 
as well as in clusters. Guaranteed to be blooming on the fourth of July, 
and on the fourth of each succeeding month until frost comes to distress 
the “fall planting’’ advocates. 3 for 6.00 each 2.25 
IRENE OF DENMARK. Floribunda. Patent 889. ARS 73%. 2 feet 
Another from the Danish old-master, Svend Poulsen, so largely responsible 
for the favor of this great race of roses, first in Europe and now in America. 
This is a beautifully formed, sweetheart bud, opening to a 3-inch, forty- 
petalled, pure-white, fragrant bloom. Low-growing, bushy and profuse. 
In bud a dainty miniature for corsages and arrangements—bhalf opened, looks 
like a baby gardenia, and the fully opened blooms resemble a perfect pompom 
chrysanthemum, beautiful in all stages.” —Mrs. Geo. W. Childers. 
Imagine getting a rose, gardenia and a chrysanthemum combined for 
only 3 for 5.25 each 2.00 
KAREN POULSEN. Floribunda. 3-4 feet. 
A gold medal winner in 1933 and still wanted by the many who love its 
vibrant-scarlet, single blosscms, which are borne in steady profusion, 
rain or shine, heat or cold, Europe or America—its all the same to the 
glowing Karen. 3 for 3.85 each 1.50 
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