HOW TO CHOOSE THE STAR® ROSES YOU BUY 



Before you try to pick the roses to buy, you should decide 

 what you want your roses to do for you. Do you want big 

 tall plants for a bed, or low ones for a border or edging? Is 

 fragrance important to you? Or do you want large, perfect 

 flowers above all else? Think first about your wants, and 

 then you will be able to choose the varieties more intelli- 

 gently. 



Suppose you simply want a bed of 12 in your yard for 

 outside color and also to supply plenty of cut bloom for the 

 house — in other words, an "all-purpose" dozen of plants 

 easy to grow and with blooms in assorted colors. Here is 

 a good choice: 



Camelot — orange-pink 



Chicago Peace — lively pink and yellow 



Chrysler Imperial — deep red 



First Prize — two-tone pink 



Golden Girl — yellow 



Miss Ail-American Beauty — deep pink 



Mister Lincoln — scarlet-red 



Peace — yellow tinted pink 



Pink Peace — dusty rose 



Queen Elizabeth — shell-pink 



Scarlet Knight — bright red 



Tropicana — orange-red 



(See page 29 for a Special Offer of this dozen) 



Roses that take pri; 



ks 



at 



the shows are also perfect for 



use as cut blooms in 



your 



home. The American Rose 



Society compiled this 



ist 



from the kinds that won the most 



prizes in rose shows: 









Royal Highness 







Tropicana 



Peace 







Swarthmore 



Mister Lincoln 







Crimson Glory 



Queen Elizabeth 







Chrysler Imperial 



Montezuma 







Tiffany 



Granada 







Camelot 



Our choice of the finest 6 to give you beautiful cut 

 blooms for the house would be: 



Angel Face — lavender 



Chicago Peace — pink blend 



Miss All-American Beauty — deep pink 



Mister Lincoln — deep red 



Peace — yellow blend 



Royal Highness — shell-pink 



(See page 29 for a Special Offer of this six) 



Our favorites among the many-flowered Floribundas are: 



Angel Face 

 Europeana 

 Fashion 

 Fire King 

 Gene Boerner 



Redgold 

 Saratoga 

 Sunspot 

 Tamango 



And here are more 



■ special 



groups that may 



be 



helpful 



for reference: 













TALL 



ROSES 







American Heritage 





Mister Lincoln 







Christian Dior 





Pascal i 







Garden State 





Pharaoh 







John F. Kennedy 





Pink Peace 







Lady X 





Queen Elizabeth 







Laura 





Swarthmore 







SOME VERY FRAGRANT ROSES 

 Angel Face Mirandy 



Camelot Miss All-American Beauty 



Candy Stripe Mister Lincoln 



Chrysler Imperial Oklahoma 



Crimson Glory 



For landscaping purposes, where your chief aim is to 

 make a splash of color in your yard, plant three of the 

 same kind together in a group. For example, if you want 

 a really bright spot with many flowers of yellow, red and 

 orange — all in one — try 3 Rumba planted together; for a 

 dash of deep rich red — 3 Europeana; pure bright yellow — 

 3 Sunspot; salmon-pink — 3 Fashion; pure white — 3 

 Saratoga. 



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For a tall hedge planted in either a straight or a curved line, use 

 Betty Prior. For a low hedge, use The Fairy. 



The new deep red Tamango is a big bush with quantities of 

 large double red blooms that make a real display anywhere. 



As for climbing roses — for quantity of bloom, vigor, toughness 

 and all-round use, nothing quite equals the scarlet Improved 

 Blaze, but the yellow Golden Showers is almost as good. 



For shell-pink blooms and tremendous hardiness and vigor, the 

 climber New Dawn will grow anywhere. 



For high quality, continuous red bloom on long stems, the two 

 climbers Don Juan and Red Empress are excellent. 



For an especially tough, strong, upright bush growing 8 to 10 

 feet, with quantities of continuous color, plant Pillar of Fire. 



Climbing Peace is a strong, colorful plant but is often shy on 

 bloom. The lovely new pink Rhonda is always in flower. It is 

 medium tall growing to 8 feet but a strong grower and quite 

 trouble-free. 



Of all the recent roses, the fragrant, deep rich pink Miss All- 

 American Beauty is outstanding. She'll win a beauty contest 

 anywhere ! Other new roses particularly admired are First Prize, 

 Command Performance, Pharaoh and Laura. But if we had to 

 select one rose above all others, then by a slight margin it would be 

 Chicago Peace. 



The most unusual and distinctive of the recent new kinds is the 

 free-blooming Floribunda Angel Face, with its lovely lavender 

 color, urn-shaped buds, very strong fragrance and perfectly formed, 

 ruffled, full open flowers. It is low growing, so plant it in the 

 front of the rose bed. 



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