COME— VISIT STAR ROSE-GARDENS 



cent are offered in our catalog, they can be grown on order and make 

 most attractive plantings for shrubbery-border or park effect. They 

 also afford strains of hardiness, vigor, or artistic quahty that are of 

 untold value in our work of Rose-breeding. 



For use in both the Rose-Gardens, visitors may have our'*Tinding- 

 List" and **Check-List," naming and keying the location of over 400 

 varieties and 1,800 plants. Then, too, each Rose is clearly labeled so 

 that you have here gardens of intelhgence as well as gardens of dehght. 

 Originally planted so that we might primarily test our own products, 

 and also so that all our folks who help care for your orders might be 

 thoroughly well informed, these gardens have proved to be a kind of 

 Rose Mecca for friends, patrons, tourists, garden clubs, and rose 

 societies. Visitors come from most distant points to get the informa- 

 tion and inspiration to be had here, and to some of them a sight and 

 opportunity more worth while than even our Display or Species Gar- 

 dens are the tens of thousands of Roses blooming in the fields near-by, 

 stretching away in long rows and often abounding in a wealth of 

 bloom. Here you will see Star Roses in the making and by the acre; 

 one field of 50,000 plants adjoins the office; other and more extensive 

 fields are on or off the main highway near-by. 



We are located on the direct motor route from New York to 

 Washington, between Philadelphia and Baltimore; also within 2 miles 

 from Avondale on the shortest route from the Lincoln Highway and 

 the West to Atlantic City via Wilmington. (See map; motor map on 

 request.) 



Visitors always welcome. On Sundays the grounds are open but no 

 business is transacted. (From March 15 to May 15, local orders are 

 accepted at office only, for delivery not until the day after.) This 

 is the only way we have yet learned to safeguard prompt delivery of 

 prior orders that are mailed to us by distant customers. 



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