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Spartan 
A Personal Word 
from C. H. Perkins 
Dear Friends: 
Each year a great sense of personal satisfaction and 
pleasure is increased when I am able to present to you a 
new Catalog. This year I am more pleased than ever, 
because inside this new Fall 1955 Catalog is the World’s 
Finest Nursery Stock. These Roses and Perennials are 
all that we say they are and more, for no camera could 
hope to reproduce the color and texture of our newer 
varieties nor the outstanding qualities of the old favorites. 
Since fall is the best time to plant for bigger and better 
blooms next spring, we are making these outstanding 
varieties available to you now. 
Remember the world-famous J&P guarantee: every 
J&P plant is guaranteed to live and bloom in YOUR 
garden or you will receive a replacement WITHOUT OR 
CHARGE. as 
Order now and we will ship your plants at the best time (0, 
for planting in your locality. 
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Arrangement of Spartan 
(Right) This sleek, ravishing 
Hybrid Tea was a real 
‘“show-stopper’’ at an im- 
mense garden show at Ham- 
burg! Named after the 
world-famous Chancellor of 
Germany, this beauty stole 
the show from the largest 
assortment of flowers ever 
exhibited. The huge, point- 
ed, dark red buds open 
ever so slowly to blood-red 
. and finally to a darker 
shade of red that reflects a 
luxurious velvety sheen! 
Blooms freely during the 
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tremely healthy, vigorous 
plant with strong stem and 
neck. The high-centered 
NEW! THE WONDER — 
FLORIBUNDA ROSE! 
(Above) Greek legend tells us that most beautiful of all women was 
the fair Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta; did not two great 
empires clash over her? And no race of men ever existed as strong 
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and vigorous as the Spartans . . . big, strapping warriors all. So ; 
what better name than “‘Spartan’’ for this amazingly hardy new form and slow-opening char- 
Floribunda . . . a brand-new J&P creation that captures the glow- acteristics ... plus the 
ing beauty and charm of Helen herself . . . together with the dark red color and outstand- : 
ing fragrance have Si 
sturdiness and robust health of her compatriots! 
HUGE ORANGE-RED BLOOMS 
The flowers start displaying their stunning beauty early . . . as 
rocketed this unusual Hybrid 
Tea into the 
class of a 
scores of gorgeous burnt-orange buds begin to appear. Slowly, the Show Rose! 
buds open to huge, high-centered Hybrid-Tea-shaped blooms with (Pl. PatsAp- 
35 to 40 petals . . . of a sparkling warm ORANGE-RED color, plied for.) 
softening to reddish coral . . . with a sweet, old Rose fragrance. $2.50 eachs 
The vigorous plant blooms constantly from early spring to severe 3 for $6.60; 
frost . . . sometimes in clusters, sometimes singly. Enthusiastically 12 for $26.40 
acclaimed by testers, Spartan is destined to become one of the most 
popular Floribundas of all time. (Pl. Pat. #1357.) 
$2.75 each; 3 for $7.20; 12 for $28.80 
COPYRIGHT 1955, JACKSON & PERKINS CO. PRINTED IN U.S.A, 
Konrad 
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