JIMINY CRICKET Floribunda. P.A.F. Medium grower. 
This is the latest member of the famous Pinocchio 
family. Lives up to its name... the profusion of 
brownish-red buds seem to “jump” into bloom all 
over the lively plant . . . one cluster is no sooner 
finished than another comes right behind. To-us, 
the open flower resembles Fashion (which is nothing 
against it, of course). Guaranteed to please all but 
the impossible to please. | 2.90 
LAVENDER PINOCCHIO. Floribunda. Patent 947. ARS 957%. 25 
inchés. 
It is a color remembered out of a dream 
And out of yesterday ... the lavender 
Of the dress you wore so many Junes ago... 
Yet the rose is new. —ALLEN E. WoOoDALL 
The catalog-writer wishes that all the ARS critics, responsible for the 57% 
rating could be brought together in one room (hot) and made to listen to a 
tape recording of the enthusiastic comments which Lavender Pinocchio 
has inspired, both here at the cabin, and en masse in our growing field... 
Said critics have a right to their opinion, of course, but this is no “dirty 
gray” or need it be a “weak plant”... not when grown the “California 
way. We also like our roses red, but this does not exclude admiration 
for one of the loveliest, rarest shades found in the Floribundas or any 
other class... (I feel my temperature rising . . . best I desist in favor of 
two of the country’s top rosarians.) 
From Richard Thomson of Wynnewood, Pa. “Lavender Pinocchio, which 
for some unknown reason, I expected to dislike, is one of the three most beautiful 
roses in my garden. The opening bud is unlike anything I have ever seen in roses— 
lavender-rose brushed with chocolate-brown.” 
And Hortense Wild—Od for a solid bed of Suzon Lotthe, bordered with 
Lavender Pinocchio! ... well, I can dream, can’t I?” 3 for §.25 each 2.06 
MA PERKINS. Floribunda. Patent 1143. ARS 79%. 30 inches. 
The very fragrant All-Amercia award winner for 1953, and that means the 
country’s best experts, in nation-wide test gardens, judging both plant and 
bloom, have crowned a Queen (Ma)! Personally I prefer the color of rose- 
sisters Fashion and Vogue, to the “‘salmon-shell-pink” but here again, it 
is your garden, friend. If you have seen and liked this prize-winning 
Floribunda, she’s yours for 2.00 - 
MARGO KOSTER. Poly. ARS 88%. 15 inches. 
With so many newer and better low-growing polys available in the same 
color, and with our avowed policy of growing only the roses we like best, 
we would not be consistent if Margo was offered in this catalog beyond 
season 1954. Certainly highly rated by ARS, and its ranuncular shaped 
orange-red blossoms have had a lot of raves from some who say they 
really know. For season 1954 only. — 
Summer 1954. After writing the above, we are embarrassed to report that 
some Margo Koster got by the “censor” last summer and were budded in. 
So... if its Margo you want, we can supply you in 1955. 
3 for 3.50 each 135 
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