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Small enough to know you . . . Large enough to serve you.” 
Special greetings to the many customers and rose friends 
whose encouragement and support have made a growing 
business out of little more than a hobby, in less than ten 
years. 
While we welcome the beginner and envy him the enthus- 
iasm and experiences through which he will become a 
“rosarian”, this catalog is written chiefly for those who have 
learned that not all rose beauty is contained by the much- 
advertised hybrid teas, floribundas and “‘grandifloras ,—that 
there is a great field for exploraton and keen enjoyment, of 
other classes, types, forms, colors and scents, known as the 
“old-fashioned roses.’ These are our specialty and we shall 
try to interest you in them. 
The beginner will not find herein the customary “instruc- 
tions for planting”, or culture. Those who include in catalogs 
so positively, how you should fertilize, water and control 
your rose pests, know far less about your soil and climate 
than your local rose society or your successful neighbor. 
Theirs is the “best evidence.” Catalogs are written for 
national distribution. What may be good rose practice for 
Houston, Texas, is not likely to fit gardening conditions in 
Bangor, Maine. 
This catalog will not try to impress you with great “pro- 
fessional knowledge”, which we do not claim .. . rather that 
we have ‘good taste’ in roses, and those which we offer 
from the hundreds available to us for propagation, all 347 
of them, are distinct rose personalities. We do not think 
the ideal garden can be limited to all modern or all old- 
fashioned kinds. Each has its place and purpose. 
‘All these variations of form and general outline blend with a 
mutual grace, one enhancing the other’s beauty”, says good Dean 
Hole, much quoted herein. 
