From the Clarke Bros. Nursery catalog, 1923, pp. 12-14:

Standard Collection: FINEST EVER-BLOOMING ROSES Price: 15 cents each; set of 12 sorts, $1.25; 2-year-old plants, 35 cents each; set of 12 sorts, $3.00.

American Beauty—One of the largest, sweetest and best of all hardy roses. It is a quick grower, constant bloomer, making magnificent buds and large bold flowers; color, rich rosy crimson, shaded and veined in the most charming manner.

Belle Siebrecht—A true, solid pink of the richest shade, a rare color. The flowers are sweetly perfumed and large, beautifully formed, and of that long, tapering shape, with lugh center.

Dean Hole—An exquisitely beautiful rose of bright carmine pink color with silvery shadings and with the grandeur of American Beauty in form and foliage. Buds of extraordinary length, opening into a mammoth bloom.

Kaiserine Augusta Victoria—A strong, vigorous grower, producing buds and flowers of enormous size. Color, pure white. We have no hesitancy in saying that this rose is unequaled by any other variety of its color. $1.25 per dozen; 2-year-old, $3.50 per dozen.

Lady Battersea—This variety has long, oval buds, sharply pointed, very striking in form. The color is a bright, cherry crimson.

Mad. Abel Chatenay—A rose of extraordinary merit. A free-bloomer, with flowers of good size and substance. Color, beautiful rosy carmine, with darker shadings.

Madame Caroline Testout—A grand rose of the La France type, but with flowers larger and finer. Color, bright satiny pink; very fragrant and free in bloom. One of the handsomest roses and should be planted extensively, $1.25 per dozen; 2-year-old, $3.50 per dozen.

Maman Cochet—This with its white sport we consider the finest Tea Rose ever produced. Very rank growing for a variety of its class. Strong canes almost thornless springing from the base all season long. Magnificent buds opening into flowers of grand size and build; very lasting and of sweet tea scent. Color, deep rosy pink, inner side of petals shaded silvery rose. Fine for massing in beds. $1.25 per dozen; 2-year-old plants, $3.50 per dozen.

Souv. de Pierre Notting—This variety is a seedling of M. Neil and Maman Cochet, with beautiful closely set foliage and a strong, sturdy habit of growth. The bloom is very large, perfectly full, of elegant form; has a beautiful long bud; color, orange yellow, bordered in carmine rose.

Souvenir President Carnot—A strong, clean, healthy grower, with handsome bronze-green foliage, and large, elegantly shaped buds. The flower is of large size, with heavy, thick, shell-like petals; buds long and pointed; color, delicate rosy flesh, shaded a trifle deeper at the center.

Richmond—Color, a magnificent rich scarlet-crimson, the most vivid we have yet seen among ever-blooming roses. Flowers of fine size and form produced on long stems well above the foliage. One of the sweetest roses in existence.

White Maman Cochet—Has all the good qualities of Maman Cochet, but pure white, equally large and fragrant, hardy and productive. One of the very best white ever-blooming roses for bedding, flowering all season long and until late in the Fall. Price, $1.25 per dozen; 2-year-old plants, $3.50 per dozen.

Old Favorite Collection TWELVE FINE EVER-BLOOMING ROSES We know of no better name for this collection than “Old Favorite,” embracing as it does twelve finest ever-blooming varieties, known the world over for their excellency as producers of superb buds and flowers. Price: 10 cents each; set of 12 sorts, $1.00; 2-year-old bushes, 30 cents each; set of 12 sorts, $3.00.

Bon Silene—The buds are handsome and produced in great profusion; color, dark rosy carmine. A great favorite.

Duchess de Brabant—Color, a soft rosy flesh, changing to deep rose, shaded amber and salmon; delightful tea scent.

Duchess of Albany—Similar to La France, but more vigorous in growth and much deeper in color. The color is a bright rosy pink, exquisitely shaded. One of the best roses for general planting.

La Detroit—Shell pink, shading to soft rose, reverse of outer petals cream colored; fragrance like that of old Bon Silene. In form it is large, cupshaped; petals, shell-like. Rich, glossy foliage; a rampant, vigorous grower, producing long shoots. This fine garden rose is a descendant of that grand variety, Madame Caroline Testout and is equally as good in every way.

La France—Although this fine rose has been in commerce for many years and has at this time many rivals in the newer sorts, it is still one of the best varieties in existence. Its fine, strong growing habit, with its freedom of bloom and exquisite fragrance, has caused it to become more generally known than any variety ever produced. The buds are very large, of grand form, unfolding in the most beautiful manner. The open flowers are full and very lasting, making the variety most desirable for cut flowers. The color is an exquisite silvery pink, with pale lilac shadings and a satiny sheen over the whole. One of the sweetest scented of all roses. A fine variety for hedge planting. Young plants $1.00 per dozen; 2-year-old plants, $3.00 per dozen.

Marie Van Houtte—Of a fine, faultless straw-yellow color; outer petals washed and outlined with a bright rosy carmine; occasionally the whole flower will be suffused with light pink.

Papa Gontier—A magnificent red rose; flowers large and semi-double; a vivid cherry red color, shaded yellow, reverse of petals crimson; free-growing and flowering very profusely. One of the very best for open ground. No other red Tea Rose can compare with it.

Rainbow—Beautiful buds and flowers of large size; color, a beautiful shade of deep pink, distinctly striped and mottled with brilliant crimson, elegantly shaded and toned with rich amber; very fragrant and exquisitely beautiful.

Safrano—Bright apricot yellow, tinged orange and fawn. Valued highly for its beautiful buds. Very profuse in bloom and deliciously tea-scented.

Virginia R. Coxe—Color, fiery crimson, with a dark, velvety sheen, very fragrant. The freest blooming rose in existence. The mass of color produced is wonderful, and the handsome foliage adds materially to its beauty. This fine rose is also known as Gruss an Teplitz, under which name it came from Europe. The fact that it has been renamed by an enterprising American florist is sufficient evidence to conclude that the variety has merit. Hardy as an oak tree and very rank grower. Can be trained to climb and is indeed an admirable variety for that purpose.

Viscountess Folkstone—Flowers borne on strong stems, with thick foliage; color, delicately tinted flesh, almost white, with beautful satin finish; one of the most beautiful varieties in cultivation; should be in every collection.

White La France—This magnificent rose is a pure white La France having just a breath of rose-tinted blush, decidedly clouding the depth of its broad petals; the buds and flowers are extra large very full and finely formed.

FINE EVER-BLOOMING ROSES On this page we offer a select list of very best garden varieties in cultivation. Like all the roses on preceding pages these sorts will bloom profusely the first season, even the small plants producing freely their lovely colored and delightfully scented flowers. Two-year-old plants will, of course, yield a greater profusion of flowers, owing to the large size of the plants. Price: 15 cents each; any 8 for $1.00; 2-year old plants, 35 cents each.

Admiral Dewey—A flne new Hybrid Tea Rose of largest size and sterling merit. It is a sport of that peer of roses, Madame Caroline Testout, and is actually superior to that sort in many ways. The ground color is a light flesh tint almost white, suffused with a beautiful blush deepening to a rosy blush in the center.

Antoine Rivoire—Flower large and of Camelia form; clear, rosy flesh, shaded to yellow and flushed with carmine. A grand decorative rose for the garden.

Avoca—Brilliant velvety crimson with large smooth petals and high pointed center, free and vigorous.

Bessie Brown—Of strong, vigorous, upright growth, good foliage, and one of the heaviest bloomers. Color, white, tinged flesh; flowers very large.

Countess of Derby—Center of flower, rich salmon color, shading to delicate peach toward the edge of petals. Buds sharply pointed with high built center, as the flower expends. Exceedingly free flowering.

Earl of Warwick—Soft, rich salmon pink, shaded vermilion and gold. Large full well-formed flowers. A grand bedding variety.

Gustave [sic] Nabonnand—Color, pale pink shaded golden yellow. Beautifully formed buds and flowers. Always in bloom.

Helen Good—A genuine sport of the famous Maman Cochet, having all the flne qualities of that superb variety, but with flowers of a delicate yellow heavily suffused with pink, with the petals distinctly bordered the same color.

Helen Gould—Bright watermelon red. Flowers freely and constantly. A rose of the highest merit for the garden. An old but still one of our best varieties.

Ivory—A pure white Golden Gate, a sport from that variety. Its extraordinary freedom, large size, heavy canes and pure color make it a valuable variety for the garden.

Katherine [sic] Moulton—A superb rose of American origin, producing elegant shaped buds and open flowers of much beauty. Of an exquisite silvery pink color and sweetly perfumed. Large handsome leathery foliage on stout thornless canes.

Lady Ashtown—Pale Rose du Barri, shaded to yellow at base of petals. Reverse side of petals silvery pink. Large, long pointed buds, opening into a beautifully formed flower. A rare and most beautiful variety.

Madame Pernet Duchere [sic]—A good yellow rose that has been revived under the name of Yellow

President Carnot. The color is a solid, perfectly clear waxy golden yellow, free from all apricot tints.

Marquis de Querhoent—Of good strong growth, making a splendid bush for the garden; clean healthy wood and persistent bloomer. Bloom of good size, substance, full and sweet. Color, beautiful china rose, salmon, copper and golden yellow.

Mrs. David Jardine—Immense globular blooms of a beautiful shade of rose pink flushed with silver and fawn. Rank grower, of upright habit. Strong heavy canes clothed with handsome leathery foliage of large size.

My Maryland—The vigorous growing and free blooming habit of this new American rose is little less than marvelous. Flowers globular and very full, with shell shaped petals of waxlike texture. Color, glowing rose pink shaded to flesh at base of petals. We know of no rose which produces fine flowers so freely as does this sort.

Olivia—Superb American pedigreed rose having every requisite of a fine garden variety. Strong, rank-growing, free-blooming, and hardy. Color, rich cerise crimson, very bright and attractive. Glorious bedding variety.

Perle von Godesburg—A seedling from the beautiful German Rose, Kaiserine Augusta Victoria, having all the characteristics of that fine variety, but bearing creamy white flowers shaded to yellow in center.

Prince of Bulgaria—A very vigorous grower, with large bright green foliage, beautiful form of bud, flower very large and full. The outer petals are extremely large, of superb rosy flesh color, center of flower orange; very flne and very free.

Winnie Davis—Color, rich apricot pink, shaded to flesh at base of petals. Beautifully formed buds and flowers. Very free in growth and bloom. So flne a rose that the town of Puyallup, Washington, has made it the official flower of the city.