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Order Star Roses for your flower-loving friends. They make a lovely, lasting and appreciated Christmas gift. 



1. At Christmas time, the friends for whom you order 

 Roses will receive from us an attractive Christmas card 

 announcing your gift. We will mail the card to arrive at 

 the proper time. It is best to send your Christmas orders 

 as early as possible, and this will help you, too, to avoid 

 the rush of many things to do at the last moment. 



2. By ordering Star Roses as Christmas gifts, you 

 avoid the tiresome annoyance of pushing through 

 Christmas shopping crowds, and have the satisfaction 

 of knowing your present will be joyfully received, even 

 if it is duplicated by someone else. There is always room 

 for more Roses in a flower-lover's garden. 



3. Be sure to give full names and addresses to which 

 the Roses are to be sent. Please print names and 

 addresses plainly to avoid any chance of error in shipping. 



4. On the gift card we write your name as donor, 

 the names of the Roses ordered and the date when the 

 plants will be forwarded. We attend to the shipping 

 time. Full planting and cultural directions go with each 

 order. 



5. Please make all gift orders on a separate sheet 

 from other orders. 



6. In selecting varieties, we suggest some of the 

 following, which are fine kinds in good supply: Peace, 

 Crimson Glory, Crimson King, Horace McFarland, 

 Girona, Good News, Mme. Cochet-Cochet, Mrs. Pierre 

 S. du Pont, Poinsettia and Soeur Therese. If you select 

 other kinds, please indicate a second choice. 



7. Or you can order $2.50 and $5 or larger gift cer- 

 tificates for your friends to make their own selections. 



MINIATURE ROSES. Hardy 



3-in. Pot-Grown Plants, Postpaid 



Fall shipment for outdoor planting in the south. For 

 outside, north of Washington, D. C, we advise spring 

 planting. 



For indoor winter flowering, plants should be rested 

 outdoors until after January 1, then brought in, repotted 

 in fresh soil and placed in a sunny window where they 

 will bloom in a few weeks. We can supply rested plants 

 any time after January 1, for indoor flowering. They 

 will not thrive in a dry atmosphere. 



• MIDGET. Plant Pat. 466. The tiniest rose-red, fully 

 double Miniature Rose. Almost thornless. 75 cts. ea.; 

 3 for $1.88. 



• PIXIE. Plant Pat. 408. The world's tiniest double 

 white Rose. It shows pink shadings in cool weather. 

 75 cts. ea.; 3 for $1.88. 



• ROSA ROULETTI. Small, rose-pink, double flowers 

 are about an inch in diameter. 65 cts. ea.; 3 for $1.65. 



• SWEET FAIRY, (De Vink.) Plant Pat. 748. NEW. 

 The first Miniature with true Rose fragrance. Dainty, 

 dark pink buds open to charming very double, 1-inch 

 blooms of apple-blossom-pink. $1.25 ea.; 3 for $3.15. 



•TOM THUMB. Plant Pat. 169. Deep crimson buds 

 grow slightly lighter as the bloom opens, later disclosing 

 a bright eye in the heart of each flower. Beautifully 

 formed, perfect, tiny Roses. 75 cts. ea.; 3 for $1.88. 



SHRUB ROSES 



3 MINIATURE ROSES $2.35 



• Midget. Plant Pat. 466. Rose-red. 



• Pixie. Plant Pat. 408. White. 



•Sweet Fairy. Plant Pat. 748. Apple-blossom-pink. 

 ASK FOR OFFER 122 



NEW PRICES FOR FALL 1947 



Please note our lowered prices on many Roses in this 

 catalog, including the 50-ct. reduction in the price of 

 Peace. The weather here has helped us produce a bigger 

 and better current crop of Rose plants than for some 

 years past. This advantage we are passing on to you — - 

 not only in better plants but in new, lower prices. The 

 group offers give you further savings. 



Our packing and shipping problems, which have been 

 so annoying these past few years, are being solved and 

 we are rebuilding the force of trained workers essential 

 for shipping orders promptly during the short season 

 when planting conditions are most favorable. We expect, 

 this fall, to again supply a high standard of service to 

 our customers, which we have not been able to do in 

 recent years. 



And this year's crop of Roses is looking fine! 



• MARTHA LAMBERT. An everblooming Shrub 

 Rose with large clusters of intense scarlet, single blooms 

 like heads of phlox. Hardy, healthy and attractive 

 $1.15 ea.; 3 for $3. 



^rTHE FAIRY. This Rose is one of the finest and most 

 useful plants ever introduced. "A regular Busy-Lizzie 

 for bloom." Rosettes of seashell-pink come in large 

 sprays on a medium-low, spreading bush. The small, 

 shiny, attractive foliage seems to be proof against disease 

 or neglect. For adding a charming spot of constant bloom 

 in front of a shrub border or anywhere else in the garden, 

 it has no equal. $1.15 ea.; 3 for $3. 



-j/rMAX GRAF. A very hardy trailing Rose for em- 

 bankments. The large, clear pink, single blooms come 

 profusely and make a lovely show in June. $1.15 ea.; 

 3 for $3. 



HYBRID PERPETUALS 



• FRAU KARL DRUSCHKI. The world-renowned 

 snow-white Hybrid Perpetual Rose that repeats its 

 blooms throughout the growing season. Not fragrant, but 

 unsurpassed in form and size. $1.15 ea.; 3 for $3. 



• HENRY NEVARD. This delightfully fragrant, deep 

 crimson Hybrid Perpetual Rose repeats its glowing 

 blooms in the fall. $1.15 ea.; 3 for $3. 



FOR MORE PLANT ENJOYMENT 



"How to Grow Roses" is the 

 title of a book now in its 19th 

 edition, begun to meet the needs 

 of our customers. (The last three 

 editions have enjoyed the joint 

 authorship of J. Horace McFar- 

 land and Robert Pyle, and con- 

 tinuing heavy annual sales. I 

 "Success with Roses" for more 

 than a dozen years has been a 

 kind of news letter to our custom- 

 ers regarding interesting people 

 and events in the Rose world, 

 such as important personages 

 visiting Star Rose Gardens, the 

 payment of Red Rose Rent, etc. 



The American Rose Society, 

 while it was still needing to be 

 nurtured, for a dozen years made 

 its headquarters as a guest tenant 

 in our office. Now a far greater 

 enterprise and one of some-dav 

 hemispheric dimensions is tem- 

 porarily housed here. Please ask 

 for information regarding and 

 join the American Horticultural 

 Council, Inc., organization Com- 

 mittee for "United Horticulture 

 for the United States." 



These, together with other such 

 organizations, are destined to 

 assist plant lovers more fully to 

 know and to enjoy their plants. 

 Therefore, as loyal citizens in the 

 Democracy of a Nation we love, 

 we are committed to such support. 



Price, $2, postpaid 

 or, with a $10 order, 

 only $1.20, postpaid 



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25 cts. a year, or 

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