Familiar Faces Among The 

 Roses in Europe 



We saw many surprising things in 

 Europe, but one that pleased us most was 

 the fxjpuiarity and the man\' uses of 

 American born hardy Roses where the 

 Tea Roses used to reign supreme. It was 

 a revelation to us and a source of wonder- 

 ment first at Barcelona, to see American 

 Pillar in such quantities in the public 

 parks, on walls, on long pergolas, their 

 enormous, heads of blooms mingling with 

 Mimosas and Bougainvillas. It was the 

 latter part of June and in that climate, 

 where some roses begin to bloom in April, 

 American Pillar was still in its glory. 

 In the same parks, were clumps of 

 Hugonis, already past flowering but the 

 fern-like dark green foliage made a beauti- 

 ful contrast with the gray EucaKptus. 

 From Barcelona, the railroad to Nice 

 follows the Mediterranean Coast nearly all 

 the way, and we had a good opportunity to 

 obser\'e the scener\-, lined with the mag- 

 nificent winter homes on the Riviera. 

 Hanging over the walls and pergolas were 

 American Pillar, Dorothy Perkins and 

 Excelsa, and at Nice, one evening we 

 dined under a huge arbor covered with 

 the hardy American Roses, which were 

 to us like a bit of home. \\ e inquired 

 about the reason wh\- these Roses, generalh' 

 associated with cold climates, were there 

 so prominent and the answer was, their 

 greater outburst of bloom than climbing 

 Teas. They had better foliage, more re- 

 sistant to summer heat, and keep on grow- 

 ing while the others become dormant. 



These were not the onl\' hardy roses in 

 the Riviera. Hugonis is much used in 

 landscape work, and Frau Karl Druschki is 

 doing splendidly. Mary Wallace was 

 already there "on probation," as a Rosa- 

 rian remarked, but it gave every indication 

 of being at home and prosperous. We 

 recognized also Dr. \'an Fleet, but it had 

 already bloomed; the foliage is highly 

 praised as very ornamental. As to Silver 

 Moon, it is fast displacing its ancestor, the 

 Cherokee Rose (R. Laevigata). 



This is the book offered as an addi- 

 tional or super-prize to anyone who wins a 

 first prize from Conard-Pyle Roses at any 

 regularly organized local Rose Show. (See 

 offer on 1st Column, Page 2.) 



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Reminder 



Plant Roses early. The Hybrid Teas 



will bloom in June, and again in July and 

 August "after a fashion." In September 

 and October come great blooms which 

 open more slowly than in June and there- 

 fore more perfect flowers of many varieties 

 delight your heart in the Fall. 



Feed your Roses a balanced diet and 

 be careful not to feed too much. 



A handful of fine ground bone around 

 each plant, well dug in, will provide 

 potash that plants need to give them 

 strong constitutions and help them to 

 withstand disease. Nitrogen helps make a 

 quick soft growth and too much will 

 make weak plants. 



If a Rose is persistently poor, there is 

 probably some trouble with the roots. 

 Vou will gain satisfaction by digging out 

 a poor Rose and planting a good one in its 

 place for a poor Rose requires more care 

 than a good one and gives jou no results. 



ORDER EARLY— IT PAYS 

 Before February 1st we had orders for 

 furnishing two Municipal Rose Gardens 

 and also the order to supply the Members 

 of one of the most influential Rose Societies 

 in U. S. A. These folks know from years of 

 experience that it pays to order earl>'. 



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FOLLOW DIRECTIONS 

 When you plant a Rose, plant it right — 

 give it a full chance to do its best. That is 

 really what it was bought for. 



If you plant it "more or less" carefully 

 you will be likely to get "more or less" 

 results. Complete planting and cultural 

 directions accompany every Rose order. 



Roses can be trained over a common 



wire fence and a plant that would cost you 

 one dollar will, when established, cover 20 

 feet of fence and give you thousands of 

 blooms in June, not to speak of the 

 glorious tinted foliage in the Autumn. If 

 you have a fence why not cover the entire 

 length of it with hardy Roses? Can you 

 figure out any bigger returns for a few 



dollars? 



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21,000,000 pieces of undelivered mail 



were consigned last year to the dead letter 

 office in V.'ashington, because of being 

 incorrectly or illegibly addressed. 



"A word to the wise is sufficient." Six 

 words addressed plainly — "Star Rose 

 Growers, West Grove, Pa." will reach us. 



FROM YOKOHAMA, JAPAN 

 Conard-Pyle Co., December 9, 1925 



Dear Sirs: 



Through the post office I am forwarding 

 you $110, for which kindly forward me as 

 many of your best roses as this amount will 

 cover, together with some Stim-U-Plant 

 tablets and some Dust Mixture. 



Knowing nothing of roses I am leaving 

 the selection to you and trust you will be 

 good enough to select what you consider 

 the best roses, together with full instruc- 

 tions as to how they should be cared for 

 (I have a copy of "How to Grow Roses"). 



Signed, J. E. L., 

 Order No. 28466 Yokohama, Japan. 



Many of the Old Roses Still 

 Unsurpassed 



A few extracts from a letter to our President, 

 Robert Pyle, written by Mrs. Herbert Harde 

 Editor of "Our Garden Journal" after her 1-925 

 trip to Europe. We regret that lack of space 

 prohibits our printing the whole letter. 



"My dear Mr. Pyle:— 



"With reference to my European trip, I 

 know that you will be surprised, without 

 your telling me so, because most of the 

 Roses I made note of, are the older roses, 

 roses we have been planting for years and 

 years and which have been rather forced 

 into the background or forgotten com- 

 pletely by the advent of the newer and 

 newest varieties. 



"* * * * There is, I fear, a growing 

 tendency in our American gardens to 

 ignore the older roses, not because they 

 are less beautiful in form and color, but 

 because they are not the last word in roses. 



"Then too, Mr. Pyle, we have no vast 

 public gardens right in our cities as Faris^' 

 has. Just recall the Tuileries Gardens, the 

 Palais-Royal, Luxembourg, Decluny, Bag- 

 atelle, etc., etc., countless others and roses 

 growing in all of them, roses grown under 

 culture of the highest type — it is diflicult 

 for one, who has not seen them to form an 

 idea of their magnitude and the immense 

 area they cover, and roses, thousands and 

 thousands of roses are everywhere in these 

 gardens, for all to enjoy and delight in. 

 Why, buxom Mme. Caroline Testout, 

 produced blooms so large and of such 

 substance and so richly pink that I hardly 

 recognized my beloved old friend. I saw 

 such varieties as Rose Marie, K. of K., 

 Columbia, Louise Catharine Breslau, Mrs. 

 Wakefield Christie Miller, La France and 

 Los Angeles. 



"Souvenir de Claudius Pernet, vivid and 

 intense, is of course the marvel among 

 yellow roses. (See illustration page 2.) 



"Red Radiance is to be seen in many 

 French gardens and I was glad. Per- 

 sonally, I have had great success with 

 Red Radiance; its color is perfect, it is 

 a sweet and generous rose. Thirty bush 

 Red Radiance with three to five Red 

 Radiance trees in an individual bed, is 

 unbelieveably beautiful and arresting. A 

 friend of mine who excludes all reds from 

 her gardens gives a prominent position to 

 Red Radiance, because it is never har^h 

 or unharmonious. 



"Mme. Butterfly is another favorite and 

 so it should be, dainty lovely blossoms and 

 excellent foliage and always, it seems to 

 me in bud and flower. 



"Mrs. Ambrose Ricardo is a most suc- 

 cessful rose in the open garden, of rare 

 coloring and charming form and what is 

 very much to the point, it is a generous 

 bloomer. 



"Gardenia is highly prized, it is a 

 precious climber and in exposed and trying 

 situations it is hardy. 



"I was amazed to find Birdie Blye 

 climbing a graceful French trellis and pink 

 with flowers in September. Dr. \\'. \'an 

 Fleet is in every French garden and like 

 Hugonis need fear no rival — -Christine 

 Wright was in evidence, also radiant 

 American Pillar and Paul's Scarlet Climber 

 and charming Mary Wallace." 



Ridgefield, Conn. Dec. 2S, 1025. 



January 14, 1926. 

 : and you deserve great credit. One thing that pleases me greatly is the 

 ape of the plant for the entire list. R.M.H. Meshanticut Park. R. I. 



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