“The fruit of the briar Rose when it is ripe maketh most pleasant meats and 
banquishing dishes, as tarts and such like; the making thereof 1 commit to the cun- 
ning cooke, and teeth to eat them in the rich man’s mouth.” 
—GERARDS HERBAL, 1633 
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SHEPHERD'S STRIPED GALLICA. 4-5 feet. 
Sent us some years ago by good friend Roy Shepherd, Medina, Ohio, and 
just coming into commercial production. Quite different from our other 
striped roses—the color is pale-pink striped and splashed magenta... 
prolific spring bloomer. Will grow bigger and more opulent with each 
successive season. 
Roy's blessing is included @ 1.50 
SUNDAY BEST. Cli. H. Perpetual. (1924.) 8-10 feet. 
Rates three mentions of twelve lines each in friend Roy Hennessey’s... er 
. entertaining catalog, plus an enthusiastic approval by ‘Hon. Secre- 
tary,’ who likes these large, single, red blooms with the white centers... 
and reminds me they keep right on coming all season. Laughs at Jack 
Frost as far down as zero. 
“The petals are ruffled and twirly like the circular skirted dresses little girls wore 
to Sunday School around 1924.”—Mrs. Mildred Couden, Indianapolis. 2.00 
TOUR de MALAKOFF. Centifolia. (1856.) To 7 feet. 
Rated by G. S. Thomas, England “Superlative quality” with the following 
comments: “An amazing rose with glorious large flowers of vivid magenta, 
flushed and veined with intense purple, fading to a uniform, soft lilac-mauve and 
grey. The wide petals are papery and veined. Very fragrant. A great rarity and 
unique in quality and colour; makes a fine large shrub or pillar rose.” 
It's “amazing” alright! 2.00 
ULRICH BRUNNER. H. Perpetual. (1882.) 5-6 feet. 
Stout fellow, is Ulrich and shrugs his big shoulders at pests and diseases. 
Somewhere back in his uncertain ancestry hovers the shadow of Paul 
Neyron, obviously a gay dog in his heyday. Blooms are very large, of 
magnificent petal, characteristically cupped, with those fiery deep car- 
mine tones peculiar to the type. The fragrance might awaken a flutter 
even in Elizabeth Arden and or "Charles of the Ritz.” 1.75 
VANGUARD. H. Rugosa. (1932.) 6-8 feet. 
Certainly has an interesting geneology—R. Wichuraiana x R. rugosa alba 
x El Dorado (copper orange H. T.), and the characteristics of all three are 
clearly shown in this handsome shrub rose. If you are a lover of the 
orange-salmcn tones in roses, with a background of glossy foliage such as 
is seldom excelled in a rcse plant, then Vanguard is for you. Sorry, no, it 
blooms in spring only, but what a bloom! 2.00 
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