Hybrid Tea, Peace 
All are ready 
in late April or 
in May and 
are equal to 
bushes plant- 
ed last fall. 
PLEASE NOTE 
Tohold the Roses 
ordered we need 
a 50% deposit 
with your order. 
Hybrid Tea, 
Chrysler 
Hybrid Tea, Mojave 
All-America for 1954 
READ THIS—Each year many Rose buyers, when they come in to make 
their selection in May, find that we are sold out of some of their favorites. 
To avoid disappomtment, send us your order with a 50% remittance NOW. 
We'll reserve your Roses, all 2-year-old, No. 1 grade, field-grown specially 
for us by the leading quality Rose grower of the northwest. Each, grown on 
outdoors from an early start, will be thoroughly rooted in a 7 x 9-inch pot, 
fully alive, in leaf and ready to give full bloom from June on. All are the 
finest quality and best varieties, growing vigorously when you get them. 
The American Rose Society gives every Rose a rating. We show this rating after each: 
9 up = the finest, 8 up = excellent, 7 up = very good, 6 up = only fair 
FORBES HYBRID TEA ROSES IN POTS 
All are strongly rooted, 2-year-old, No. 1 grade, field-grown plants established in 7 x 9-inch pots. 
®Buccaneer. $2.95 ea.; 3 for $8.55; $33 doz. 
The buds are very long, opening into cupped, mildly fra- 
grant flowers of clear shining, fadeless butter-cup yellow. 
The strong plants grow quite tall, are free-branching with 
long stems topped with glorious blooms. 38 petals. 8.4 
®Charles Mallerin. $2.85 ea.; 3 for $8.25; $31.80 doz. 
Both the attractive buds and the large, high-centered, full 
flowers of midnight crimson are very, very dark red with 
a velvety blackish sheen, and the color does not turn blue. 
They have a marvelous fragrance. The husky plants are 
tall but not too symmetrical and have healthy, dark green, 
leathery foliage. They bear the flowers freely on long 
stems. 30 to 40 petals. New. 
®Charlotte Armstrong. $2.60 ea.; 3 for $7.50; $28.80 doz. 
All-America Rose Selection, 1941. The long, pointed, 
blood-red bud opens into a large, high-centered, full flower, 
cerise in hot weather and spectrum-red in cool weather, 
and 3 to 4 inches across. The plants are vigorous and very 
free flowering. The foliage is large, leathery, semi-glossy, 
deep green and highly resistant to mildew. 30 petals. 9.0 
®Christopher Stone. $1.95 ea.; 3 for $5.55; $21 doz. 
A large, semi-double, vivid scarlet flower overlaid with 
velvety crimson, of delightful Damask fragrance. In fall 
the crimson deepens with black shadings. The plants are 
of vigorous, upright growth with bright green foliage, free 
flowering and apparently not affected by heat, as they 
bloom almost continuously. 35 petals. 8.8 
*Chrysler $2.85 ea.; 3 for $8.25; $31.80 doz. 
All-America Rose Selection, 1953. he crimson color 
deepens in the shadows and seems brighter in full light. 
The large blooms are 41% to 5 inches in diameter, with 
broad petals arranged in high-centered form. Buds are 
usually velvety and gracefully tapered. Flowers are 
carried single on strong stems of moderate length. The 
plant is compact in growth. 40-50 petals. 8.7 
®Condesa de Sastago. $1.95 ea.; 3 for $5.55; $21 doz. 
The golden yellow buds are beautifully striped with bril- 
liant orange-red and develop into cupped, open, copper- 
colored flowers of spicy scent. The inside of the petals is 
oriental red, the outside golden yellow, giving an unusual 
bicolor effect. The free-flowering, vigorous plants have 
large, glossy dark green foliage. 50 petals. 7.9 
®Crimson Glory, $1.95 ea.; 3 for $5.55; $21 doz: 
The large, long-pointed buds open to beautifully formed, 
semi-double, cupped flowers of an intense deep vivid crim- 
son shaded oxblood-red and mellowed by a soft velvety 
nap. The wonderfully fragrant blooms are recurrently 
borne on very vigorous, compact bushes with healthy, 
profuse, leathery foliage. 30 petals. 9.5 
®Eclipse, $1.95 ea.; 3 for $5.55; $21 doz. 
With streamlined, tapering buds, often 2 inches long, the 
semi-double, golden yellow flowers are very freely pro- 
duced. The plants are vigorous and upright in growth with 
long, erect stems fine for cutting. They bloom consist- 
ently through the season. 25 petals. 8.5 
®Etoile de Hollande. $1.95 ea.; 3 for $5.55; $21 doz. 
Still one of the best reds. The large-petaled, huge, double, 
cupped flowers are bright red, do not fade and have an 
exquisite old-Rose fragrance. They are particularly 
superb when in the half-open stage. The 214-foot, open, 
branching plants have upright stems, large, soft green 
foliage and bear intermittently all season. 45 petals. 8.9 
®First Love. $2.60 ea.; 3 for $7.50; $28.80 doz. 
Dozens of unusually long tapering, graceful buds in a 
delightful pale dawn-pink. The pale pink flowers, with 
their mild pleasing tea fragrance and gracefully pointed 
petals, open very slowly. The vigorous, fairly upright, 
free blooming plants, carry each flower singly on a long 
slender stem. The abundant, light green, leathery foliage 
Is disease-resistant. 25 petals. 7.8 
®Good News. Not available 
The deep coppery pink buds slowly open to very large, 
double, globular strong-stemmed flowers of silvery shell- 
pink with glowing apricot centers and rich tea fragrance. 
The vigorous bushy plants are healthy and almost con- 
tinuously in bloom. This is an exceptionally fine dooryard 
rose. 60 petals. 8.0 
®Grande Duchesse Charlotte. $2.35 ea.; 3 for $6.75 
All-America Rose Selection, 1943. This delightful aristo- 
crat provides a color previously unknown in Roses. The 
beautiful long, streamlined buds are a glowing morocco- 
red and open to firmly petaled blooms of dusky coral-red 
which do not fade, and gradually merge to a soft coral- 
pink. The petals recurve and form a very artistic flower 
with a carnation fragrance. 25 petals. 8.3 
® Indicates the most fragrant varieties 
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