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A RED-LETTER DAY 



Tliey say that everythin^^ comes to him who 

 waits — so we waited patiently, and it came . . . 

 the day last fall when finally everything was ready 

 and we could move into our new office building. 

 To everybody here, it was a red-letter day on the 

 calendar. The old, conAerted stable and carriage 

 house which we had occupied for 63 years had an 

 air of quaintness about it. and an aura of the im- 

 practicable. We outgrew it, bursting at the seams. 

 Now we have twice the space — every inch of it 

 designed for its purpose, which is to serve you 

 quicker and more efficiently. It is in keeping with 

 our highly advanced rose growing methods, and 

 with our desire for excellence and steady progress 

 in meeting the needs of Star Rose customers. 



RED ROSE RENT DAY 



The 229th anniversary of the first payment of 

 one red njse as rent for this land on which we grow 

 roses became history last September 10 when many- 

 hundreds of [)eople interested in roses gathered 

 here to celebrate the occasion. Once again, a 

 direct descendant of William Penn, founder of 

 Pennsylvania who once owned this land, accepted 

 the annual "rent"; and once again, it was a fine 

 day for people to enjoy the roses, the exhil)it of 

 arrangements and other events, including hearing 

 two tof) hybridizers of new roses tell about their 

 new introductions. Both Alain Meilland of 

 France and Gladys Fisher of Massachusetts were 

 on hand to introduce Suspense and Fascinating, 

 respectively. Others prominent in the j)rogram 

 were Harry O'Brien, noted as the Plain Dirt 

 Gardener of Better Homes & Gardens; Congress- 

 man Paul Dague of Pennsylvania; and .1. Ben- 

 jarmn Williams, outstanding rosarian of the 

 American l^ose Society. Red Rose Rent Day this 

 year will be September 9. Why not jot it down 

 and |)lan to attend.^ 



PRESS PARTY 



A distinguished gathering of garden writers and 

 editors visited Star Hoses on September 9 to see 

 the rose fields and to get a })re\ievv of our new rose 

 introductions. Among them were such notables as 

 Bal[)h l>ailey of House «.V (Jarden Magazine, 

 I'loreuce l>akerof the Philadelphia liupiirer, ( Jarrv 

 (ie(;rs of WCAI -T\ , Charles (Jravi's of the \e\v 

 York Herald-Tribune, Hichard Hussellbee of 

 {■"lower \ (iarden Magazine, .lack .Johnston of the 

 Jl.rald-'IrilHme. Boy Kersey of \VFIL-T\, H. 

 Gleavoii Mat loon of I lorl icult ure Magazine. 

 Weldon Miner of Flower (Jrower, Arno \ehrling 

 ol IJorli'ulture. Mur\ O'Brien of Popular Gar(l(>ri- 



ing, Harry O'Brien (The Plain Dirt Gardener\ 

 Margaret Ohlander of Flower Grower, Tom 

 Stevenson of the Washington. D. C, Post, Ted 

 Weston of American Home Magazine, Dr. C>nthia 

 Westcott (The Plant Doctor), and Bill Youngman 

 of the Washington Star. After a broiled chicken 

 and corn-on-t he-cob lunch in the grove, the group 

 spent the afternoon in the rose fields and gardens, 

 visiting nearby Longwood Gardens, and wound up 

 at Longwood Inn for cocktails and dinner. 



FLOWER SHOW FEVER 



There's no surer sign of spring along the Eastern 

 Seaboard than the opening of the big Flower Shows 

 in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washing- 

 ton. They occur just about now — as you read this 

 — in early March. The hundreds of thousands of 

 people who enjoy them are seeing the l>eautiful 

 results of work that was planned months earlier. 

 Here at Star Roses, for instance, we begin to 

 think about and plan for our exhibits in the 

 Washington and Philadelphia Shows in November, 

 four months before you actually see them. It is 

 then that Flower Show Fever sets in among the 

 people here whose responsibility it is to })repare our 

 Show gardens. It is a running fever which starts 

 slowly, increases steadily during the winter and 

 reaches its crisis the day the show opens. 



NEW MEMBERS OF THE 

 STAR ROSE FAMILY 



In our list of roses for 1961, we are proud to be 

 able to offer you eight lovely new Star personalities. 

 all of which were officially launched with due 

 ceremony on Red Rose Rent Day . . . Suspense. 

 Vassar Centennial. Invitation. Fascinating. 

 Simone. Polka. Pixie Rose and Pixie Gold. The 

 last two are new Miniature Roses; Polka is a Flori- 

 bunda, and the others are Hybrid Teas. All ap- 

 pear in your spring catalog; and some in this 

 issue of "Success." 



CHARLES MALLERIN 



The passing of Charles Mallerin of France at 

 the age of 83 last Oct()l)er will be sad news to ?uany 

 of \ou who love his rose origiiudions. He was the 

 "grand old man" of the world's Inbridizers. His 

 hesl-known rose creations are LoNxeil I houms. 

 Mrs. P. S. (hi Pont. Ami Ouinard. Blanclie Mal- 

 lerin. Spectacular. Mme. H(M»ri Guillol. Horace 

 McFarland and Bed Ijupress. His latest is 

 Simone. which we are introducing this year. It is 

 I»i(lure(l on the next page. 



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