Catalog No. 27 SOUTH’S LEADING ROSE NURSERY Tyler, Texas 
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You Are Invited to Attend 
The Annual East Texas Rose Festival on October 11 and 12 Each Year 
at Tyler, Texas—the geographic and business center of America’s greatest 
field-budded Rose area, producing 6,000,000 field Roses annually 
The photographs above were taken in October, 1933. In upper right group is Dr. J. Horace McFar¬ 
land, Editor of American Rose Annual, and President Emeritus of the American Rose Society. Visitors 
at this Festival came from 75 cities in 15 different states. 
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Home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. De Shong, Paris, Texas, who have many Dixie Roses in their garden. 
Some of our customers have several thousand Dixie Roses in their home-grounds. 
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FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY of Dixie Rose Nursery is $250,000.00. The owners of Dixie 
Rose Nursery are A. F. Watkins, Manager; W. V. Henson, Vice-President and Manager of 
Texas Pecan Nursery, an experienced nurseryman; and R. W. Fair, President of Texas Pecan 
Nursery. REFERENCES: Dun & Bradstreet, Tyler Chamber of Commerce, any Tyler bank or 
banker. Our methods and our guarantee are dependable. 
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