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Finally, so well hidden by an encircling temple of trees 

 that we nearly missed it, was an open-air theater with turf 

 seats, and along the front of the stage, for footlights, was a 

 brilliant row of blooming roses. There, amid this paradise, in 

 charming French fashion, our host entertained his guests 

 with a musical recital. Can you wonder, therefore, that invi- 

 tations to this garden are cherished? for one can enter by 

 invitation only. Write us, reader, when you are nearing Paris, 

 and let us give you our card to this patron of roses, Mons. 

 Jules Gravereaux, honored by Emperors. 



[From notes and photographs taken by Robert Pyle, 

 President of The Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa., on 

 the occasion when he represented the American Rose Society 

 and acted as judge at the International Contest of Garden 

 Roses at Bagatelle, Paris, June, 1911.] 



The Red Rose Church at Manheim 



We know of no more unique ceremony in America than 

 Manheim's "Feast of Roses." In 1750, Baron Heinrich Wil- 

 helm Stiegel, coming from Germany, settled in Lancaster 

 County, Pennsylvania, and founded the little town of Man- 

 heim. He prospered in business and later deeded to the 

 Lutheran congregation (which he organized in 1769) a plot 

 of ground for the erection of a house of worship with the 

 following stipulation: "yielding and paying therefor at the 

 said town of Manheim, in the month of June, yearly forever 

 after, the rent of ONE RED ROSE, if the same shall be law- 

 fully demanded." 



And now each year, with appropriate exercises, the con- 

 gregation of the Manheim Lutheran Church pays to the heirs 

 of Baron Stiegel the unique ground-rent of "one red rose," 

 and each year recalls the memory of a man who, though 

 "dying in poverty, had yet left the noblest of all memorials, the 

 love, reverence, and gratitude of a community whose industry 

 he had stimulated, whose ideals he had fostered, for whose 

 spiritual welfare he had made permanent provision." (Pub- 

 lished with the permission of the pastor, Rev. A. E. Cooper.) 



