(1954)  Page(s) 71.  
 
Jean Lafitte. Climber....10-15 feet. A very hardy Horvath climber which attracted the catalog-writer's special attention in Roy Shepherd's garden of many hundred varieties, in Medina, Ohio. Blooms abundantly in spring and early summer--large, double, cupped flowers of Willomere pink.

(1951)  Page(s) 72.  
 
COLLECTORS' ITEMS. Listed below are varieties old and new, in VERY limited supply for 1951. They are too few for full catalog description...too many for our own use in propagating...too good to be omitted. Most varieties are those which were especially admired on the writer's eastern trip, 1949, ow in process of commercial production...
Sombreuil Tea. (1951) Creamy-white...wanted by so many will grow it again.
[ed. note: we do not know if this is the first appearance of "Sombreuil/Colonial White" or if this was the true Tea that was later confused with "Sombreuil/Colonial White."]

(1948)  Page(s) 17.  
 
Marie Leonida. Bracteata Hybrid, early 19th Century. Nature has given this tall, bushy plant, the handsomest, most luxuriant foliage of any rose we know. Try hard as she does all season, however, Leonida seems unable, in this climate, to open its full white buds to anything near perfection. We hope some of our friends in the warm, inland valleys will give her a place in the sun, as surely that wonderful foliage deserves a chance to prove itself....

(1948)  Page(s) 21.  
 
Rainbow. Tea. China. Picked up by the Lesters on one of their adventurous journeys through the Mother Lode Country. Origin and history unknown to us. Charming globular blooms, similar to Duchesse de Brabant, start cream color at center and darken to deep crimson at the outer edges....

(1948)  Page(s) 23.  
 
Rosette Delizy. Tea. (1922.) When the rose garden is "quiet," this lively and luxuriant tea rose will be in full-bloom--it literally never stops. Flowers are medium size, pert and well formed; basic color is cadmium-yellow, outer petals dark carmine, in very pleasing contrast...

(1951)  Page(s) 72.  
 
COLLECTORS' ITEMS. Listed below are varieties old and new, in VERY limited supply for 1951. They are too few for full catalog description...too many for our own use in propagating...too good to be omitted. Most varieties are those which were especially admired on the writer's eastern trip, 1949, ow in process of commercial production...
Sombreuil Tea. (1951) Creamy-white...wanted by so many will grow it again.
[ed. note: we do not know if this is the first appearance of "Sombreuil/Colonial White" or if this was the true Tea that was later confused with "Sombreuil/Colonial White."]

(1948)  Page(s) 24.  
 
Souvenir of Wootton. H. Tea. (1888) Rated Hybrid Tea but with Hybrid Perpetual characteristic predominating; tall, lusty, recurrent bloom; somewhat similar to Mme. Victor Verdier in the way it grows strong canes topped with as many as nine enormous blooms; but the color is a deeper, richer carmine and the perfume is heavier.

(1948)  Page(s) 24.  
 
Studienrat Schlenz. Cli. H. Tea. (1926.) ...watch out - - as you get the hang of it, it may fascinate you, as it did this writer when he first saw it listed years ago, in Frank Lester's catalogue. Our parent plant grows tall, under an apple tree in the front garden, and all summer long, its large, satin, pale-pink blooms, with that crisp starched look, smile down at us through the apple foliage.

(1948)  Page(s) 46.  
 
Susan Louise. This is the truly ever-blooming bush form of the beautiful climber, Belle of Portugal, and in our opinion one of the most valuable and delightful roses in existence, regardless of color, form, or age....Buds are very long-pointed, deep pink, excellent for bouquets; the open flower is semi-double, flesh-pink, charming and graceful. Robust grower to 5 feet or more.