PEACE—Highest rated rose in America. 
@ohe OXSewer QRoses 
“Trying to pick and choose among the delights of the catalog reminds me of 
being seven years old, standing in front of a favorite confectioner’s display of 
French bonbons; the saleswoman hovering with poised tongs, my mother saying 
‘Make up your mind, dear, and that awful pressing sense of urgency and frustration 
because it was impossible among so many temptations, to be sure.” 
The Roses listed under this heading are the varieties we 
would plant ourselves, if we were the proud possessors of an 
amateur modern rose-garden. Not one among them which 
is not deserving the praise we give it,—the ‘adjectives’ are 
not colored for profit, or do we have any commercial reason 
to praise falsely, one rose over another. They were not origi- 
nated by us . . . we are only judge and critic. 
Elsewhere in this catalog we have claimed to have “good 
taste” in roses, not only in our selection of Old-fashioned 
kinds, but in the Newer Roses, also. One learns to judge 
them more expertly, walking the rows in the growing fields 
from spring to frost, in all kinds of weather. Those with superl- 
ative qualities stand out from the others; likewise faults are 
more apparent when viewed side by side with better roses. 
We are testing constantly—adding and improving. 
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