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Novelty Star Roses 



For 1934 



• LUIS BRINAS. H.T. (Pedro Dot, 1934.) 

 Orange-copper. See in color on front cover. Plant 

 Patent applied for. The first bloom we saw of this 

 beauty from Spain pleased us greatly, and now, 

 after two years of study, we believe it is one of the 

 finest novelties we have ever introduced. 



Fine pointed buds of orange-copper open slowly, 

 the petals curling back, making a starry flower 

 with a high center. The flower lasts a long time 

 in this condition and gradually a lovely shade of 

 pink overspreads the copper and orange, making a 

 new rose-color. When fully open, the color is soft 

 old-rose, flushed with gold, with an extra-heavy gold 

 flush on the lower part of the petals; over all this 

 is an opalescent luster which changes the color- 

 shades in different lights. There is not a jarring 

 note in the entire color-range from bud to faded 

 bloom. It has a mild, distinctive fragrance which is 

 delightfully clean and fresh. 



The plant is vigorous, upright in form, with 

 bronzy new foliage. Gold Medal, Bagatelle, 1932; 

 First Class Certificate, National Rose Society 

 Trial - Grounds, 1932; Gold Medal, Saverne, 1933. 

 $1.50 each. 



*Mrs. J. D. Eisele. $1.50 each 



LAST summer, when the newspapers 

 ' shouted from coast to coast that a 

 Black Rose was blooming in the great 

 Rosarium at Sangerhausen, I was on 

 my way into Germany. 



I saw the famous Rose. It really was 

 far the darkest maroon Rose I'd ever 

 seen, and under certain conditions so 

 deeply colored that anyone would call 

 it "black." The plants and blooms were 

 of moderate size. It was free-flowering 

 and exquisitely fragrant. 



37 Years Growing Roses 



This firm, incorporated in 1897, is 

 known throughout America as "Star Rose- 

 Growers." It was founded by the very men, 

 Alfred F. Conard and Antoine Wintzer, who 

 had earlier {1868} pioneered here at West 

 Grove in establishing America's first Rose- 

 growing business. It is a bit difficult to 

 realize that more than a full third of a cen- 

 tury has passed during which we have 

 steadily aimed to produce and distribute 

 "The Best Roses for America." In our years 

 of world-wide search for the best of the new 

 Roses, we have won the record among 

 Americans as having most frequently been 

 represented at the Concours de Bagatelle, 

 Paris, where Rose-hybridizers from a dozen 

 different nations annually meet to select the 

 cream from that famous international com- 

 petition. The Bagatelle 25th Anniversary 

 Medal was sent to us as an award for our 

 frequent presence and participation. Each 

 trip to Europe has been marked by visits to 

 shows, to hybridizers, and to every reach- 

 able source of supply for Europe's best in 

 new Roses. 



It is because of those repeated visits and 

 intimate contacts, both abroad and at home, 

 that we are able, in 1934, to offer Star Rose 

 patrons the valuable novelties shown here 

 and on the following pages. 



• MRS. J. D. EISELE. H.T. Plant Patent 

 No. 67. Cherry-rose. See illustration. This 

 splendid Rose was originated by Fred Howard, 

 who gave us such famous Roses as Los 

 Angeles, Miss Rowena Thorn, and Mrs. E. P. 

 Thorn. Its parents are McGredy's Scarlet and 

 Premier. The cherry-red buds open slowly to 

 a spirally formed, high-centered flower of the 

 same color. As it is very double, having 

 nearly one hundred petals, it lasts a long time 

 as a cut-flower. It has wonderful fragrance, 

 defined by a perfumery expert as real Rose 

 perfume. Strong in growth and free in bloom. 

 Gold Medal, Atlantic City, 1932; Gold Medal, 

 New York City, 1933; Gold Medal, Phila- 

 delphia, 1933. $1.50 each. 



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