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Man is the only creature on earth that knows the delights of working with nature 

 in the creation of garden beauty, for the sake of that beauty alone. That is beyond all 

 animal instinct. Perhaps that is why we feel so close to heaven in a garden. 



Our ancestors built gardens for countless generations and left words to prove 

 that they found as deep and abiding satisfaction in them as we find today. Do you 

 remember the words of Joseph Addison, the famous essayist, poet and statesman, on 

 the pleasures of a garden? 



"You must know . . . that I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden, as 

 one of the most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our 

 first parents before the fall. It is naturally apt to fill the mind with calmness and 

 tranquillity, and to lay all its turbulent passions at rest. It gives a great insight into 

 the contrivance and wisdom of providence, and suggests innumerable subjects for 

 meditation. I cannot but think the very complacency and satisfaction which a man 

 takes in these works of Nature to be a laudable if not a virtuous habit of mind." 



That was written some 250 years ago, but the thought is just as true, timely and 

 apt today. One can find a sense of timelessness, of continuity of the race, in working 

 in a garden. And one can find delight and peace. 



Of all the garden flowers, Roses seem to have been most constantly treasured 

 by mankind throughout the ages. There is unbroken human continuity between the 

 oldest discovered painting of a Rose, probably done 35 centuries ago, in a cave on the 

 island of Crete, and this catalog, fresh from the most modern color press. Always, 

 human beings have loved to gather Roses and have taken pleasure in them. 



In one thing, we are probably more generally fortunate today than people ever 

 were before. Nowadays, actually, almost anyone can grow Roses. It may be a few 

 Miniature Roses in a window box, or a whole garden outside your window, but you 

 can have Roses. Plants are easy to get and to grow. In Star Roses, you can get the 

 best of plants in the best of present-day varieties: hardy, vigorous Roses with the 

 everblooming quality that is their most priceless asset. You can have Roses from 

 spring to frost, if you want them. 



Sincerely, 



THE CONARD-PYLE CO. 



President 



