STAR ROSE SERVICE, continued 



Star Rose, with the whole of our reputation and reliability back of 

 it. It should remain on the Rose. 



Every improved method which will tend toward delivering to the 

 customer these fine Star plants in perfect condition is followed. The 

 packing for shipment is elaborately careful, and is alike moisture- 

 conserving and frost-proof. We are proud of our packing and our 

 packages, and we find our customers also are proud of what they get 

 through them. 



Further provision toward removing the risk of Rose-growing is found in the 

 succinct directions sent with each order telling how to handle the Roses when they 

 are received. Success too is promoted through the information and figures on 

 pages 10 and 11 showing various Rose forms, thus permitting the choice of those 

 best adapted to the particular place in mind. 



We make choice easy not only by the Star Index to bush Roses on 

 page 8, but by grouping the Climbers on pages 58 to 69. The hardi- 

 est bush Roses for very cold climates are all together on pages 46 to 57. 

 The important "Baby Rambler" family is discussed on pages 44 and 

 45. The Tea Roses are on page 37, and the safest and best of the new 

 Roses are described on pages 38 to 43. 



The most important section for the largest number of our Rose 

 friends includes the twenty-one pages — 16 to 36 — of the so-called 

 "Everblooming Roses." Within this important class there are sepa- 

 rations into color groups. The various shades of red appear on pages 

 16 to 21; the pink roses on 22 to 27; the white and tinted Roses on 

 pages 28 to 33 ; the yellow Roses on pages 34 to 36. 



What About New Roses? 



Not many of the newer Roses appear in that wonderful list on 

 page 8. Each year from 100 to 200 new Roses are introduced, over 

 80 per cent of them coming from Europe. A very small proportion 

 are enough better than existing sorts to make them really desirable. 

 It has seemed to us, therefore, better to assume the cost and the risk 

 of testing these new Roses ourselves, and to ofi'er only those new 

 sorts (see pages 38 to 42) in the interest of our desire to take the risk 

 out of Rose-growing, which our own trials and the trials to which we 

 have access convince us are worth a place in these pages. 



Our Research Department considers the new Roses of all the world, studies 

 them, compares them, and values them toward acceptance if worthy, or rejects 

 them in the absence of some notable advantage. We want every Rose furnished 

 anyone anywhere within the Hmits of our Star Rose Service not only to justify 

 our broadly-made guarantee, but to give pleasure and satisfacUon through its 

 value, distinction and true service. 



PRESIDENT 



December lo, 1924 The Conard-Pvle Co. 



