COMPLETE ROSE-GARDENS FURNISHED 



Our wide experience of over thirty years, constantly visiting the 

 best Rose-gardens in America and also in Europe, together with our 

 practical experience, year after year, in improving our own Rose- 

 Garden has given us an unusual education in the best in Rose-garden 

 practice. When time permits, namely, before our busiest season, we 

 take great pleasure in sharing our experience with our customers who 

 are just starting or are increasing their plantings. 



During the past year we have had the satisfaction of being entrusted with 

 the selection of varieties and, indeed, with complete orders for several 

 prominent Rose-gardens. We are usually furnished first with the landscape 

 architect's designs. With that as a basis, we not only select the varieties but 

 also locate them on a planting-chart which we forward with, or ahead of the 

 Roses. This planting-chart simphfies the entire operation, both to owner and 

 workman. We are not landscape architects; we must have made for us 

 (perhaps you can do it yourself) a plan of your garden, and then we will 

 work out the details for you. 



By going through our Catalog, you will see we are prepared to furnish our 

 extra-quahty Star Roses for shrubbery plantings, for hedges, fences, arbors, 

 banks, and every possible use. We have growing here as a sample, not only a 

 modern Rose-Garden (see illustration, page 3) but also a Species Garden in 

 which are contained a larger assortment of Species Roses than anywhere else, 

 we beheve, in the United States, not excluding the Arnold Arboretum or the 

 Department of Agricuhure, Washington, D. C. Having devoted our lives to 

 the production of the **Best Roses for the American People," we beheve we 

 are prepared, as never before, to serve them in a fashion calculated to gratify. 



Over 2,000 Roses and Well Satisfied 



Order No. 29280 November s, 1927 



"You will please find enclosed our order for I^YIS two-year old No. 1 field-grown Rose plants." — 

 L. O. K., New York. 



After Delivery 



November 28, 1927 

 "We are well satisfied with the Rose plants you have shipped us and wish to thank you for your 

 cooperation in filhng our order." 



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