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Roses Like These Around Your Own Home ? 

 Certainly — Easy With My "Fairfax" Plants 



It doesn't take a wizard to grow roses — you learn much by experience, of course, but the great, all-important thing is to start with the right kind of plants. 

 Then, with a few simple, common-sense principles in mind, you will find it a comparatively easy matter, and a most delightful experience, to grow the kind of 

 roses you see here. 



Can't you just imagine what a keen sense of pride you would feel to have this plant growing beside your veranda, and loaded with such flowers as you see here 

 — especially when you had planted and tended it yourself? Well, you can have one like this — as good, or better — if you want it. Get the right kind of a start, 

 with my "Fairfax" plants, and the rest will be much easier. 



WHY Are Fairfax Roses The " Aristocrats of Rosedom " ? 



First of all, it's our location. Right here in Northern Virginia, only a short distance from Wash- 

 ington, are a few square miles of land that Nature seems to have designed expressly for a big rose- 

 garden. The soil is right to establish lots of heavy, healthy roots and good, stout canes. The climate 

 is right; near enough to "big water" not to get too dry in summer; warm enough in the growing months 

 to promote a good rapid growth; severe enough in winter to put the plants in dormant condition and 

 keep them tough and hardy — so they can be transplanted anywhere successfully. This combination 

 lacks only one thing, and I have supplied that — the ability to propagate the best varieties and fill 

 orders accurately and to the satisfaction of customers. 



My Fairfax Roses Have Made Successful 

 Gardens East, West, North and South 



I have customers in every state in the Union, and in many foreign countries. Their expressions of 

 satisfaction, their substantial "repeat" orders, and the fact that they recommend my roses to their 

 friends, all show conclusively the worth of my stock. I take an interest in my customers, and per- 

 sonally superintend the filling of orders. 



My Free Book "Fairfax" Roses 



I have just issued an attractive catalogue on roses and rose culture which I think would interest 

 you, and if you expect to buy any roses this year, I'll be glad to send it to you. It tells about roses 

 from the view-point of one who knows them, admires them, and lives among them. It lists roses 

 of many types and colors, and is illustrated with real pictures of roses. 



It also describes a number of other useful plants and flowers — Dahlias, Gladioli, Bedding Plants 

 and Ferns, Shrubs, etc., describing each in a very practical and helpful way. Write me about your 

 garden now, and I'll send this book by return mail. 



W. R. GRAY, Box 6, Oakton, Virginia 



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Create those Things which 

 People Must Have-Grow Fruit 



American people have about reached the end of the 

 time when they can live by robbing the earth. The cost of 

 living goes higher, health-necessities get scarcer, the daily 

 struggle keener, city life and artificial conditions more in- 

 tolerable. And the man in touch with the soil is the only 

 man whose feet are not "on shifting sands." More 

 and more every year it is clear that the only way to make 

 the land pay is by intensive cultivation. You will secure 

 yourself against profitless labor and make your high- 

 priced land earn interest on your investment in it by 

 growing fruit — the product of the soil that pays best. 



Do the Thing that Pays — Grow Himalaya Berries 



Giant Himalaya Berry is a new fruit, from central Asia, 

 that will revolutionize the berry-growing industry of this 

 country. The plant is a briary vine that does not die down 

 or winter-kill an inch. New shoots start where the last 

 season's growth stopped, and make 20 to 30 feet of wood a 

 season. Fruit is borne all along these canes, on the old and 

 new wood alike. The plants bear at 18 months of age, and 

 for a hundred years. The Berries resemble blackberries, 

 but are larger, meatier, have no core and make a lot more 

 juice or pulp. Ten tons from an acre of 18 months old plants 

 is an average crop— 20,000 pounds, worth at least $1000.00. 



We KNOW that Giant Himalaya Berry is the coming 

 fruit, commercially and for the home — you should find it 

 out. We have told why and how in the Berrydale berry 

 book and have laid aside a copy for you. Write 

 us today where to send it. A£ 



Berrydale Experiment Gardens 



Holland Garden Ave. Michigan 



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Ho! Lovers of tke Queen of Flowers: 



Our 1912 ROSE BOOK Lists the World's Newest and Best. 



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