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About our Roses, elsewhere in this catalog are these words: "No millionaire in the world 

 can have any better!" This is a rather remarkable fact, when you come to think about it. 

 Because, for most material things that people treasure, the best is expensive. By and large, 

 this is especially true of beautiful things that add to the grace of living. Yet here are Roses, 

 the most widely treasured flowers of all, in the best plants that money can buy, ranging from 

 $1 each for Miniatures to a $2.75 top for this year's newest and highest priced big Star Rose. 



Yet I doubt if this unique economic fact about Roses has very much bearing on the great 

 popularity of Rose gardening as a hobby and a sport. Roses and Rose-growing have too many 

 other and even greater attractions. A wealthy visitor here, who said he had "given up horses 

 for Roses," was not impelled to the change by economic considerations. Rose-growing has a 

 vast number of different attractions for different people. Some enjoy it as a challenge and a 

 competition ; others have found it a soothing cure for tensions and troubles of mind and body. 

 There are as many ways to enjoy Roses as there are different varieties to be enjoyed. 



For a beginning gardener, as well as an experienced one, Roses have a host of advantages. 

 There is no long waiting period, to have Roses blooming in your yard. You can start a Rose 

 bed this fall and those plants will bloom next spring, right along with your neighbor's bushes 

 that may have been there for years. To have fine lawns, big trees and bloom-filled shrubs 

 usually takes years of cultivation. But your new Star Rose bushes that you get this fall, properly 

 planted and cared for, will be blooming like veterans and looking like mature plants before the 

 end of their first year in your garden. The following spring, Climbing Roses ordered now will 

 add their bloom and height, ready to cover a trellis, fence, or other support. You can get a 

 finished garden effect and all-season bloom more quickly and easily with Roses than you can 

 with any other kind of plant. 



In that "all-season bloom" lies what is probably the greatest advantage of modern bush 

 Roses. Even a tiny garden, full of Roses, can give glorious color and fragrance from late spring 

 to freezing weather. If you have never counted the annual crop of blooms from a group of well- 

 grown Rose plants, you should do it some year. They add up to an astonishing total. 



The newer Roses this year seem to be an exceptionally fine lot. Personally, I am especially 

 fond of Love Song, Sun King, Red Wonder, Tiffany and Queen Elizabeth. Circus, Spartan 

 and Montezuma also have much to offer, and many other people will no doubt prefer them. 

 In Roses, there are splendid varieties to suit all tastes. 



I spent six weeks in Europe this year, searching for still newer fine kinds. Hybridizers there 

 are doing much interesting work and we shall have a big job, testing their best for American 

 growing conditions. We intend to make sure that our Star Rose customers will always have the 

 best there is; and that "No millionaire in the world can have any better!" 



With all best wishes, 



Sincerely 



THE CONARD-PYLE CO. 



President 



