Mio OUDLEY GCROsSs), tea. (1907:) 5-6-feet, 
It's hard to tell whether “Hon. Secretary” or tea rose authority, Thomas- 
ville Nursery is the most enthusiastic about Mrs. Cross. Supposing I give 
you a blend of both opinions, and throw in a personal comment for good 
measure. We are all agreed the bloom is large, perfectly formed, light 
yellow developing delicate pink shadings—thornless and a rank grower. 
I say the odor reminds me of ripe bananas—’’Hon. Secretary” insists it's 
strawberries—Thomasville doesn't say. 
“Give this lusty rose plenty of room ... in two years you will be reaching up 
to cut long-stemmed, high-centered buds. In autumn, you cannot find two blooms 
colored alike. The new growth is so bronzy-red in spring, its almost as pretty as 
a flower.”—Kitty Simpson, Shreveport, La. 3 for 4.50 each 1:75 
MRS. FRANKLIN DENISON. H. Tea. (1915.) Low-growing. 
Another very soft pastel from the Arthur J. Webster, Toronto, collection. 
A McGredy Irish rose, with a long-pointed bud of a pinkish primrose- 
yellow. This is a delicate beauty you will not find widely grown by the 
nurserymen or your neighbors. (Supply very limited until 1956) 2.00 
MRS. JOHN LAING. H. Perpetual. (1887.) 5 - 6 feet. 
Probably the best known and most popular of the big, pink, richly-fragrant 
hybrid perpetuals, winter-hardy just about anywhere ... profuse and 
recurrent bloom. A long-time special favorite of the C.W. Says master 
word artist, Dean Hole—‘No¢ only in vigor, constancy and abundance, but 
in form and features, Beauty’s Queen.” |e 
MUSK ROSE. R. Moschata. (Ancient.) 20 - 30 feet. 
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, 
Where oxslips and the nodding violet grows, 
Quite over-canopied with luscious wood bine, 
With sweet Musk roses and with Eglantine. 
—MipsumMERS NIGHT DREAM. 
This is the wild rose of the Himalayas, of enormous vigour, its great 
canes, frequently growing to unbelievable lengths in a single season. For 
us it thrives and blcoms profusely, in sun, and almost full shade, but 
nothing can stop its lust for living. Certainly not a rose to be confined in a 
tiny city lot but wherever it can fountain in great canes, or ride a fence or 
cover some unsightly spot, the Musk Rose is unexcelled. The magnifi- 
cent corymbs of two inch, five-petalled white flowers cover the plant 
through a long spring season. And any who know not the strange illusive 
scent of the Musk Rose have something rare in store for them. 
The ‘Rose Amateur’s Guide,” Rivers, London, 1843, offers the following, 
too good to omit—‘The White Musk Rose is one of the oldest inhabitants of our 
gardens and probably more widely spread over the face of the earth than any other 
rose. It is generally supposed that the atiar of roses is prepared in India from this 
species, and that this is also the rose of the Persian poets, in the fragrant groves of 
which they love to describe their ‘bulbul’ or nightingale, as enchanting them with 
its tuneful notes. It is much more fragrant in the evening, and probably in the hot 
climate of Persia, only so in the coolness of the night, when nightingales delight 
to sing.” 3 for 4.50 each 1.75 
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