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For complete shopping 

 convenience, nothing 

 beats ordering by mail. 

 You can do it at your 

 pleasure, day or night, 

 in bed or at the breakfast 

 table, without parking problems 

 or waiting at a checkout counter. Faster 

 . . . and no more expensive. 



If you have qualms about choosing 

 roses from a catalog, you may be assured 

 that you run no risk when your shopping 

 guide is our Star Rose Catalog. Here in 

 pictures we show you how the roses look 

 to us, and in words we try to tell you our 

 impressions of them as they grow right 

 here in our fields where we can check 

 them many times during the growing 

 season. 



So browse through these pages and 

 help yourself to the satisfaction of ordering 

 Star roses from the first company in 

 America to issue a mail-order rose catalog. 



Grandiflora. (The House of Meilland.) 

 UM// //((/') f Plant Pat. App. For. A true bicolor that fairly 

 bursts with life. Buds are yellow at the base, blending into 

 soft orange-yellow at the edge. On the inner side the color is 

 bright orange-red with pale yellow at the base. Buds are of 

 short pointed shape, nicely furled when opening. An individual 

 flower is of medium size and maximum brightness, and a clus- 

 ter is a gay bouquet in itself. Fine as cut flowers and particu- 

 larly lovely at the half-open stage when the orange-carmine 

 color on the inside of the petals first shows. Fragrance is light 

 and pleasant. The bronzy to medium green leaves have a 

 special gloss and thickly cover the bushy, strong plant. Star- 

 burst is of medium height and will fit easily into any planting 

 scheme. 



$3.50 ea.— 3 or more, $3.10 ea. 



Hybrid Tea. (The House of Meilland.) Plant 

 Pat. 2859. A handsome new velvety scarlet 

 rose, whose rich vivid color and form will make it very popular. 

 It has broad, firm petals, somewhat ruffled at the edge. Buds 

 are well pointed, of very dark maroon-red, and when they roll 

 open they show a marvelous glowing scarlet interior with an 

 orange cast. The two shades of rich red are most attractive 

 throughout the life of the flower. 



Good stiff stems hold these large, commanding flowers, as 

 if to challenge comparison with any other rose in the garden. 

 Pharaoh provides many days of enjoyment when cut and 

 brought indoors. The plant is of average Hybrid Tea size with 

 large, glossy dark green leaves. In the Star Rose Garden at 

 the Philadelphia Flower Show last spring Pharaoh won many 

 compliments. 



$4 ea. — 3 or more, $3.55 ea. 



