THE HANDSOME HIPS OF RUGOSA 
SOUVENIR DE LA MALMAISON. Bush. Bourbon. (1843.) 4-5 feet. 
(Mal-may-zon.) ... 1 find it difficult to select the right words, for this 
is not just another old-fashioned rose, or can you describe its many subile 
qualities with the usual catalog superlatives. Factually it is very hardy 
. . no freeze-back even in coldest Pennsylvania, a moderate grower, but 
a profuse all-season bloomer. Flower is large, many-petalled—a pearly 
soft flesh-pink, with slightly deeper centers. An old-world rose which 
speaks of history, romance and nineteenth century ‘Paris in Spring.” 
Of the many comments received, I select one from Ralph Dasher, Fler- 
ence, Alabama—"T his is the first rose I remember, since both the bush and climb- 
ing form were in the garden of my Georgia birthplace, and still are, altho I cannot 
remember their ever getting fed, watered or sprayed, or much more than cursory 
attention.” 
Rated among their ‘favorite six old-type roses” by five prominent rosar- 
ians who answered my questionnaire. 2.00 
SARAH VAN FLEET. H. Rugosa. (1926.) 5 - 6 feet. 
Will call immediately on old customer and friend, Neville Miller, Palmer- 
ton, Pa., for description of the lovely Sarah—"Large, blush-pink, semi-double 
flowers, with hybrid tea form and intense nasturtium-rose fragrance . . . blooms 
continuously in full sun. Among my favorite six old-type roses.” 2.00 
SCHOENER’'S NUTKANA. H. Nutkana. (1930.) 6 - 8 feet. 
A fine, upright shrub rose which produces in Spring a great crop of grace- 
ful, 4 inch, single blooms in deep rose-pink. Excellent for neat, compact 
hedges or back-ground planting. Among the happiest of the roses planted 
along the road passing my cabin. LF 
“The greatest ideal that man can aspire to is not to be a show-case of virtue, but 
just a genial, likable and reasonable human being.”—Lin YUTANG 
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