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From page 68 on you will find offered well-grown, up-to-date assortments 

 of other important plants needed to grace a well-regulated garden. Really, 

 they all deserve more space because, for example, in our 23 greenhouses and 

 on our 173 acres we are growing, each year, a quarter milhon new evergreens, 

 and fully as many shrubs, so these and the perennials, cannas, etc., would 

 occupy more pages, just as they deserv^e, were it not for the Roses. 



For more than two generations we have speciahzed with Roses. "The 

 Best Roses for America" has been our constant aim. We have traveled far to 

 learn; we have visited the best growers we could find from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific and in the Rose-growing countries across the Atlantic. After many ex- 

 periments we have come to ehminate certain stocks and certain methods in 

 favor of better ones. For example, we long ago abandoned growing the ever- 

 blooming Roses on their own roots. Such Roses are the kind usually sold in 

 5 and 10 cent stores. They sometimes do well in the far South, but even in 

 the two-year size are a risky buy in the temperate zones,* as compared with 

 the sturdy two-year-old, field-gro^^Ti, budded Roses. 



Another type of Rose that we sometimes bought for our customers but 

 learned to distrust, and hence avoid, were the so-called bench Roses. They 

 are the spent plants thrown out by growers of cut-flowers after they have 

 given too many years of blooming-under-glass service to be worth keeping 

 longer. As a rule, the assortment is hmited to the few varieties that may be 

 forced. Such are the kinds frequently on sale in department stores or ad- 

 vertised in the newspapers at cut prices. 



We have yet to learn of any firm, any^vhere, offering either of above types 

 of Roses, that is able to show you a sample outdoor Rose-bed of their own 

 greenhouse-grown product. 



Everblooming Star Roses, on the other hand, never see a hothouse. They 

 are brought up from babyhood entirely in the open air, and in the great out- 

 doors are given three years to mature before they are quahfied to wear the 

 Star tag. The root of a Rose is ver^^ important, and on the best roots yet 

 found are budded, for Star Roses, the scions carefully selected to produce 

 the "Best Roses for America." 



To keep up with the constantly increasing demand for Star Roses, we 

 have, this past summer, greatly increased our winter storage as well as pack- 

 ing facihties, and have also added to our land area two splendid pieces of 

 Chester County soil — 78 acres — on the main highway from Philadelphia 

 to Baltimore. The best of leadership, labor, materials, and experience will 

 continue to characterize the growing, the care, the harvesting, and the ship- 

 ping of our products. 



Every business man knows the care that must be exercised to avoid mis- 

 takes, but every Star-Rose patron knows that The Conard-Pyle Company 

 insists upon the pohcy that no transaction is complete until the customer is 

 perfectly satisfied. 



*Further information regarding experiments with these Roses carried out in the 

 temperate zone will be found on page 35 of the 1927 American Rose Annual, edited by 

 Dr. J. Horace McFarland. 



