SHOT SILK—"Nothing More Exquisitely Beautiful.” 
SHOT SILK CLIMBING Ss GUAHS Teal Olea icet. 
A climbing sport of the bush variety (which we have discontinued.) A high- 
centered, double, fragrant rose of unique and beautiful color,—'’Cherry- 
cerise, shot with gold” on strong stems. 
Yielding to the Frank Lester enthusiasm some years ago | planted a Shot 
Silk climber in my garden, at Redlands, California, where those 100 de- 
gree summer temperatures are not too kind to roses—Nothing in that gar- 
den of 225 varieties was more generous of bloom or more exquisitely 
beautiful. (The catalog-writer pauses to shed a nostalgic tear for those 
amateur days when he “‘did amazing and astounding things to roses, still 
expecting them to flourish.”) 
“In my garden grown as a pillar, Climbing Shot Silk’s first blooming produced 
60 flowers, second blooming July Ist, 41 and still buds coming! The most out- 
standing climbing H. T. I’ve ever grown; has taken 3 degrees above zero without 
losing a twig.” Richard Thomson, Wynnewocd, Pennsylvania 
SATURNIA. Patent 349. ARS 81%. 3 feet. 3 fon 4.00 e.eceiimaay 
A highly rated, semi-double, gold medal winner whose brilliant scarlet 
and gold coloring and petallage is magnificent in the coastal or cooler 
districts but not for the desert summer sun. 
“The first rose to thrill me this season was Saturnia,—it bloomed in different 
colors, each combination appropriate to the season until its autumn depth and color 
blended with the fall foliage.’ Mrs. H. M. Alexander, Fayetteville, Arkansas. 
3 for 4.50 each 1.75 
SCORCHER: Climbing H. Tea. (1922), 10 +12 feet. 
Our Garden Notes, over the years on this beautiful Allister Clark climber, 
are an annual eulogy, for its rare and indescribable shade of red, plus the 
graceful form of the large semi-double flower, place it with our very best. 
Has all that anyone could ask in a climber—vigor, profuse and repeating 
bloom, and an out-shining beauty. LS 
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