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A MORE ABOUT 



M Good Roses 



\'oL. 2, No. 1 



Star Rose Growers 



When You Uncover Your Roses 



Do not do it too early, and in stages 



only. The period of most acute danger 

 from frost is at the end of winter when 

 the plants may be subjected to the 

 agony of being thawed out too quickly and 

 too often. It is the rapid change that 

 does the mischief. If the soil has been 

 hilled and manure or straw put in the 

 hollows, remove the latter first, then a 

 few da\s later, when danger of hard frost 

 is past and the soil is thawed and 

 drained, level off the hills. (Light frosts 

 will do no damage.) It is important that 

 these operations be done on a cloudy day 

 as there is danger of the sun injuring the 

 live wood. Do not be impatient, as no 

 harm will come if the protection remains 

 a little longer than necessary-. 



Photograph taken by our Mr. J. H. Nicolas of Mile. Louise Pernet and our president, Robert Pyle, in 

 the secret garden of M. Pernet at Venissieux-les-Lyon in Southern I-rance. 



Inside the Secret Garden of the 



World's Most Famous 



Rose Hybridizer 



Here is the garden enclosed with a ten 

 foot high stone wall, on all four sides, and 

 a heavy iron gate which is kept locked, and 

 in this secret garden of perhaps the world's 

 greatest Rose hybridizer, our president, 

 Robert Pyle and our Mr. J. H. Nicolas, 

 escorted by IM. Pernet's youngest daughter 

 Louise, were given the rare opportunity of 

 viewing not only M. Pernet's most recent 

 introductions, such as "Souv. de Claudius 

 Pernet" and still more recent "V'ille de 

 Paris," but also many of his seedlings 

 which have not yet been introduced and 

 which in the years to come may be expect- 

 ed by the rose-hungry nations. Mr. Pyle 

 has had more than ordinary experience in 

 witnessing great displays of growing roses 

 in all parts of America, including the 

 Pacific Northwest, central and southern 

 California; North-eastern Ireland and 

 many other parts of Europe, but there was 

 something about this guarded planting of 

 M. Pernet's that was different. It seemed 

 to him more dainty, yet more glorious, more 

 fastidious and more fascinating than all 

 the rest. It may have been the sunshine 

 of Southern France, it may have been that 

 the soil had something to do with it, and 

 quite likely the predominance of the light- 

 er and daintier shades of yellow and gold 

 lit up the scene, for it was truly a fairyland 

 of blithesome beauty. No wonder M. 

 Pernet is obliged to keep it under lock 

 and key so that none but cherished guests 

 or the occupants of flying machines that 

 pass overhead, may see inside. 



Among the Roses shown in the above 

 picture are blooming plants of the new 

 Ville de Paris. That is the rose which last 

 June 'at Bagatelle won the Gold j\Iedal 

 offered by the City of Paris. Our Mr. 

 Nicolas was one of the judges. Ville de 

 Paris is an improved Souv. de Claudius 

 Pernet. We have plants for sale. S2.50each. 



February, 1926 



Our Enlarged Rose Garden 



Our office grounds face on the principal 

 highway leading from Maine and New 

 England to Florida. Automobiles of every 

 description, loaded to the gunwales with 

 household paraphernalia, rolling on toward 

 the sunny south, are an everyday sight 

 trirbugri^tlie early wirifer-^'everi hoUses"oh ' 

 wheels, windows up and curtains flapping, 

 with often a lady at the wheel, add variety 

 to the car brigade. 



NaturalU', numbers of our friends pass 

 b\ . Therefore, the importance of our 

 location for displaying our wares annually 

 grows greater, and the Rose Garden plant- 

 ed a few years ago, containing 300 or 400 

 Roses, is already outgrown. To accom- 

 modate the increasing demands of our 

 friends we are much more than doubling 

 the size of the space, and, we hope, the 

 beauty of this "show window." Our rustic 

 summer-house, established last year, looks 

 out upon one axis, at right angles with 

 which is the longer vista of the other axis, 

 that will open up a lovely view to tourists 

 returning from Florida during or before the 

 Rose blooming season. You can be very 

 sure that we shall adapt and iisg as many 

 as possible of the ideas obtained during 

 the European trip last summer, where we 

 took careful notes and measurements of 

 the trellises and pyramids, to say nothing 

 of the _ gracefully garlanded climbers, 

 trained in festoons from pillar to pillar. 

 We are ambitious in this respect, that we 

 hope to have a beauty spot worth visiting, 

 we hope to disappoint no one. It is our 

 idea to have blooming in this garden a 

 sample of every Rose offered in our catalog, 

 and when >ou reach here you will be able to 

 identify the place by the sign of the "Star." 



The Climbing Roses and the trellis at each side of the entrance to our present Rose Garden will have to 

 come down, to make way for "Our enlarged Rose Garden" which will contain over 1000 Roses. 



