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Small enough to know you .. . Large enough to serve you.” 
The writing of a rose-catalog offering 319 varieties, old and 
modern, is a task of no mean proportions, once again says 
the catalog-writer, who has completed the rose descriptions, 
and disposed of his empty “sack of adjectives.” 
First a special word of greeting and apology to the 
many who have received earlier editions. Would that I 
might make this one more interesting to you, by omitting all 
of the old quotations, descriptions, and ‘‘quips and quirks.” 
But I find that the compostion of a catalog is much like the 
development of a rose collection. If you have nothing better 
to include, best to retain what you have. Is there any “im- 
provement’ for Dean Hole? 
Roses started with me asa hobby. I do not consider myself 
a “professional” in knowledge or viewpoint, or have I ever 
expected to make my fortune through them. But because of 
roses, | have formed real friendships, well-founded and 
lasting, “Than “this, there is: no greater iortune: 
Much that you read in this catalog will seem a bit remote 
from the ‘Queen of Flowers,” especially to new readers. But 
I would like you to know us as people,—not only as rose- 
growers, soliciting your orders. We want you to believe in 
the sincerity of our hopes, plans and purposes—for, to suc- 
ceed in these, we shall need you. 
May we introduce ourselves—'‘Honorable Secretary,’ Mrs. 
Dorothy Stemler, who will be your chief correspondent— 
loves her roses with ‘passionate pride’ and intimate know- 
ledge. Likes humans. 
Fred Hamisch, who watches over the planting of the under- 
stock, the budding, cultivation, fertilization, pest control and 
harvesting—the head-man behind the many all-important 
growing operations. Nice guy—you would like him. 
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