To Our Customers, Greetings! 
It doesn’t seem possible that another year has turned and that Spring is prac- 
tically upon us! But the calendar, like Nature herself, is inexorable—and the date 
says it’s time for you to start thinking about this year’s garden and how we can 
help you to make it once more “‘a thing of beauty.” 
Here at Star Roses, all of us have been working hard to grow enough top-quality 
plants to go around. Meeting the tremendous demand for Star Roses in all popular 
varieties is, as Shakespeare might say it, a “labor of love.’? We love to do it be- 
cause you love our Roses. This work extends, where we are concerned, to the develop- 
ment and introduction of entirely new Roses such as the lovely and wonderfully 
successful Grand’mere Jenny last year—our new “‘American Beauty,” President 
Eisenhower, which is this year’s Cover Rose—and the brilliantly beautiful Love 
Song, a certain success for 1956. 
We enjoy the excitement of discovery, and we think you will, too, when your 
delighted gaze first falls upon the glorious pink and gold of this new Star in your 
own garden. 
Now—a word of thanks is in order. We appreciate your understanding of and 
love for Roses of outstanding quality. Your own sense of appreciation as reflected 
in your purchases of Star Roses through the years has, in turn, fortified our resolu- 
tion never to sell you other than the best that can be produced. Your complete 
satisfaction is our most earnest desire. 
Sincerely, 
THE CONARD-PYLE COMPANY 
AIF Mal 
President 
