34 Years' Experience Builds STAR * ROSES 



Each plant is labeled with a durable celluloid Star tag I our trade-mark i, and is guaranteed to "make good" 



Reduced Prices 



No, we have not cheapened the high 

 quality of Star Roses, but there has been 

 some reduction in prices. 



$5 novelties have been reduced, some to S2 and 

 $1.50. In climbers and Polyanthas arc reductions of 

 25 per cent; and even greater advantages arc offered 



in prices of collections. Note quantity rates. 



Quality Counts 



In Roses, more than in almost anything 

 else, quality is remembered long after price 

 is forgotten. 



Poor quality or cheap Roses 

 to start with may result in 

 total failure and all your labor 

 and money lost. This is as 

 true today as it ever was. 

 There is no investment that 

 you can make in anything that 

 will pay so surely and so well 

 as a slightly higher price spent 

 to secure Roses of a much 

 better quality. 



Mrs. Pierre S. du Pont is now 

 recognized as a top yellow. 

 Mme. Gregoire Staechelin is 

 the most distinguished of hardy climbers. 



The Latest Novelties 



We offer in this book a range and display 

 of novelties surpassing all previous records for 

 distinguished kinds and valuable additions. 

 Please note especially introduction to pages 

 4 and 5. 



We have the honor to add to our list, with 

 all too little room to tell about them, Roses 

 with which it is a joy to compliment our 

 highly esteemed and widely honored con- 

 temporaries: 



Dr. J. Horace McFarland, President and Editor 

 of the American Rose Society, and horticultural 

 author; Leonard Barron, long editor of Garden 

 Magazine, now American Home; Thomas A. Edison, 

 who, to vast achievements in electrical and mechan- 

 ical science, is now adding the fruits of research in 

 horticulture. No Roses could be too good for them. 



OUR GUARANTEE 



\A/E guarantee every Star 

 Rose to bloom at the first 

 blooming period after purchase, 

 failing which we agree to re- 

 place the Rose or refund 

 its cost. 



Plants That Are Satisfactory 



As the years go on (and our business is 



alreadx past the third of a century mark), 



there is to us abundant satisfaction in the 



repeat and increasing orders that come from 



those who plant Star Roses. 



Read the words of satisfaction in notes on the 

 pages that follow, and you will realize the economy 

 practised by spending money for Star Rose plants 

 that do not disappoint. 



Improved Methods 



Now, for many, many years, we have been 



improving our methods, 

 increasing our care, and 

 right here on the garden- 

 spot of southeastern Penn- 

 sylvania we have learned 

 to grow better Roses than 

 we've ever sold before. 

 They deserve to be called 

 Star Roses. 



You can feel as secure 

 as we do in our generous 

 guarantee. It is not the guarantee that makes 

 the Roses bloom, but the quality of the plants 

 that enables us to make the guarantee. 



Visit Star Rose-Gardens 



Increasing interest attaches to our gardens 

 of Star Rose plants in bloom. 



As we write, there are blooming about us right 

 here at West Grove a full third of a million Rose 

 plants alone, destined for our autumn harvest. 

 Similar quantities of evergreens, shrubs, and peren- 

 nials grace our 200 acres. 



Our patrons, both professional and amateur, from 

 all over America come and fairly revel in Roses that 

 are food indeed to their beauty-hungry appetites. 

 "Souls starve as well as bodies," but bodies are not 

 neglected, for right in the heart of this famous Rose 

 district is quaint, modernized, and comfortable Red 

 Rose Inn. There you can be comfortable and you 



are always welcome. 



Robert Pyle, President 



WE RECOMMEND FALL PLANTING. Plants are fresh from the fields, full of stored-up vital- 

 ity, and your ground is in mellow condition for pleasant and proper planting. You need not lose a single 

 Rose. If you do we will replace promptly. Fall-planted Roses will bloom ahead of spring-planted Roses. 



•GRENOBLE 



Leader of 1931 Novelties 



H.T. _ 



(Charles Mallerin) 



INTRODUCED TO AMERICA BY THE CONARD-PYLE CO. 



See front 

 cover 



Scarlet-crimson. Named for the City of Grenoble in France, the home of the originator, Charles 

 Mallerin, who has provided so many fine Roses that thrive in our trying American climate. From an 

 ovoid bud comes a large, full-petaled, fragrant flower of clear crimson, veiled with a sunshiny orange 

 glow, brilliant and noticeable among any other reds. The plant habit is excellent, being upright and 

 compact, with dark, thick, leathery, disease-resistant foliage. This free-blooming Rose is splendid for 

 bedding, but individual blooms of great size can be obtained if the plant is disbudded and only one 

 bloom left on each bloom-stalk. $2.50 each. 



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