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LAVENDER PINOCCHIO—’A Color Remembered out of a Dream.” 
LAVENDER PINOCCHIO. Floribunda. Patent 947. ARS 56%. 2 feet. 
It is a color remembered out of a dream 
And out of yesterday ... the lavender 
Of the dress you wore so many Junes ago... 
Yet the rose is new. —ALLEN E. WooDALL 
The catalog-writer wishes that all the ARS critics, responsible for the 56% 
rating could be brought together in one room (hot) and made to listen to a 
tape recording of the enthusiastic comments which Lavender Pinocchio 
has inspired, both here at the cabin, and en masse in our growing field... 
Said critics have a right to their opinion, of course, but this is no ‘‘dirty 
gray” or need it be a ‘weak plant’... not when grown the ’’California 
way. We also like our roses red, but this does not exclude admiration 
for one of the loveliest, rarest shades found in the Floribundas or any 
other class ... (I feel my temperature rising ... best I desist in favor of 
two of the country’s top rosarians.) 
From Richard Thomson of Wynnewood, Pa. ‘Lavender Pinocchio, which 
for some unknown reason, I expected to dislike, is one of the three most beautiful 
roses in my garden. The opening bud is unlike anything I have ever seen in roses— 
lavender-rose brushed with chocolate-brown.” 
And Hortense Wild—‘Oh for a solid bed of Suzon Lotthe, bordered with 
Lavender Pinocchio! ... well, I can dream, can’t I?” 3 for 5.25 each 2.00 
MA PERKINS. Floribunda. Patent 1143. ARS 72%. 27 inches. 
The very fragrant All-Amercia award winner for 1953, and that means the 
country's best experts, in nation-wide test gardens, judging both plant and 
bloom, have crowned a Queen (Ma)! Personally I prefer the color of rose- 
sisters Fashion and Vogue, to the ‘‘salmon-shell-pink” but here again, it 
is your garden, friend. If you have seen and liked this prize-winning 
Floribunda, she’s yours for 3 for 6.00 each 2.25 
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