STELL ROSE NURSERY 
Route 9 Tyler, Texas 
9 MILES NORTHWEST OF TYLER ON 
MINEOLA HIGHWAY NO. 37 
RETAIL PRICE LIST 
FALL 1940 SPRING 1941 
You will find no beautifully colored pictures in this little 
catalogue. Man has made wonderful progress in lithograph work but 
still is helpless to get the true shading and blend of colors that nature 
produces, and in most instances his efforts are downright mis-leading. 
These pictures are very costly and their cost must be added to price 
you pay. So, in order to put the greatest possible per cent of the 
dollars you send me, back in the bundle of bushes I send you, I am 
leaving off the pictures, for in truth you are not buying pictures, 
but Rose Bushes that will produce beautiful flowers that no picture 
can truly represent. ' 
Please remember that all plants are perishable, and it is 
impossible to handle them like ear corn ■ or potatoes. You will have 
much better chance of success by buying from some reliable nursery¬ 
man direct than by buying from truck peddlers, bargain counters, 
etc., as it is impossible to pack Rose Bushes so that tops are exposed 
so that you can see them and keep vitality in bush. 
Since a plant’s chance to live depends so much on care you give 
it, drouth and free2es and other things beyond my control, I cannot 
and no other honest nurseryman can guarantee plants to live. You 
can quickly see that if I give one customer two or more plants for 
the price of one, I am not honest with the one who gets only one 
plant for the same money. 
