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Single Roses I Grow and Love
(Dec 1951) Page(s) 179. Cecil... a golden yellow rose... In habit it is very much like the floribundas as the plant is bushy, and blooms often come in clusters of three to five...
(Dec 1951) Page(s) 179-180. Colette Clémente Here in [Oklahoma] 'Colette Clément' is a good rich pink, not coral-red as some say it is in cooler places...
(Dec 1951) Page(s) 178. Dainty Bess undoubtedly the best known of the single roses... It has six soft rose-pink petals which are delightfully informal and artistically notched and fluted... its wine-red stamens are its mark of individuality...
(Dec 1951) Page(s) 179. Dazla blooms much paler here in hot Oklahoma than its catalogue description of orange-scarlet, yet it is a very pretty pink and prized by some of my friends as being especially adaptable in floral arrangements...
(Dec 1951) Page(s) 180. Frances Ashton... Large garnet flowers, wine stamens...
(Dec 1951) Page(s) 180. Innocence Perhaps as a white single, 'Innocence's place has been stolen by 'White Wings'.
(Dec 1951) Page(s) 179. Irish Fireflame... its color is apple blossom...
(Dec 1951) p179. Mrs. K. D. Dorsett, Oklahoma. Single Roses I Grow and Love. Isobel (McGredy, 1916) has five petals. It is rose-pink with apricot shading before the sun strikes it, then it changes to a pastel pink and white. It is the largest single I have found to date, and graceful too. The stamens are light yellow and plentiful. I have grown this rose for many years and taken it to many shows, where it always gets a blue ribbon. Not infrequently after the show some individual with artistic talent has taken it home to make it a model for a painting. Although the one description I have gives its height as 15 to 18 inches, my 'Isobel' bushes are likely to be 3 or 4 feet tall. No wonder I love the lovely 'Isobel'.
p181. ibid. I think it is fun and also a challenge, to grow the five-petaled, lovely 'Isobel' and take her to a show without dressing her up or peeling her down, and see her two days later still with the same petals but with one more blue ribbon to her credit.
(Dec 1951) Page(s) 180. Kathleen Mills ... its pale silvery pink blossoms have a sweet briar fragrance...
(Dec 1951) Page(s) 178. White Wings 'Dainty Bess' all over again even to the wine-red stamens except the petals are white... a prolific bloomer...
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