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\'oL. 2, No. 1
Star Rose Growers
When You Uncover Your Roses
Do not do it too early, and in stages
only. The period of most acute danger
from frost is at the end of winter when
the plants may be subjected to the
agony of being thawed out too quickly and
too often. It is the rapid change that
does the mischief. If the soil has been
hilled and manure or straw put in the
hollows, remove the latter first, then a
few da\s later, when danger of hard frost
is past and the soil is thawed and
drained, level off the hills. (Light frosts
will do no damage.) It is important that
these operations be done on a cloudy day
as there is danger of the sun injuring the
live wood. Do not be impatient, as no
harm will come if the protection remains
a little longer than necessary-.
Photograph taken by our Mr. J. H. Nicolas of Mile. Louise Pernet and our president, Robert Pyle, in
the secret garden of M. Pernet at Venissieux-les-Lyon in Southern I-rance.
Inside the Secret Garden of the
World's Most Famous
Rose Hybridizer
Here is the garden enclosed with a ten
foot high stone wall, on all four sides, and
a heavy iron gate which is kept locked, and
in this secret garden of perhaps the world's
greatest Rose hybridizer, our president,
Robert Pyle and our Mr. J. H. Nicolas,
escorted by IM. Pernet's youngest daughter
Louise, were given the rare opportunity of
viewing not only M. Pernet's most recent
introductions, such as "Souv. de Claudius
Pernet" and still more recent "V'ille de
Paris," but also many of his seedlings
which have not yet been introduced and
which in the years to come may be expect-
ed by the rose-hungry nations. Mr. Pyle
has had more than ordinary experience in
witnessing great displays of growing roses
in all parts of America, including the
Pacific Northwest, central and southern
California; North-eastern Ireland and
many other parts of Europe, but there was
something about this guarded planting of
M. Pernet's that was different. It seemed
to him more dainty, yet more glorious, more
fastidious and more fascinating than all
the rest. It may have been the sunshine
of Southern France, it may have been that
the soil had something to do with it, and
quite likely the predominance of the light-
er and daintier shades of yellow and gold
lit up the scene, for it was truly a fairyland
of blithesome beauty. No wonder M.
Pernet is obliged to keep it under lock
and key so that none but cherished guests
or the occupants of flying machines that
pass overhead, may see inside.
Among the Roses shown in the above
picture are blooming plants of the new
Ville de Paris. That is the rose which last
June 'at Bagatelle won the Gold j\Iedal
offered by the City of Paris. Our Mr.
Nicolas was one of the judges. Ville de
Paris is an improved Souv. de Claudius
Pernet. We have plants for sale. S2.50each.
February, 1926
Our Enlarged Rose Garden
Our office grounds face on the principal
highway leading from Maine and New
England to Florida. Automobiles of every
description, loaded to the gunwales with
household paraphernalia, rolling on toward
the sunny south, are an everyday sight
trirbugri^tlie early wirifer-^'everi hoUses"oh '
wheels, windows up and curtains flapping,
with often a lady at the wheel, add variety
to the car brigade.
NaturalU', numbers of our friends pass
b\ . Therefore, the importance of our
location for displaying our wares annually
grows greater, and the Rose Garden plant-
ed a few years ago, containing 300 or 400
Roses, is already outgrown. To accom-
modate the increasing demands of our
friends we are much more than doubling
the size of the space, and, we hope, the
beauty of this "show window." Our rustic
summer-house, established last year, looks
out upon one axis, at right angles with
which is the longer vista of the other axis,
that will open up a lovely view to tourists
returning from Florida during or before the
Rose blooming season. You can be very
sure that we shall adapt and iisg as many
as possible of the ideas obtained during
the European trip last summer, where we
took careful notes and measurements of
the trellises and pyramids, to say nothing
of the _ gracefully garlanded climbers,
trained in festoons from pillar to pillar.
We are ambitious in this respect, that we
hope to have a beauty spot worth visiting,
we hope to disappoint no one. It is our
idea to have blooming in this garden a
sample of every Rose offered in our catalog,
and when .ou reach here you will be able to
identify the place by the sign of the "Star."
The Climbing Roses and the trellis at each side of the entrance to our present Rose Garden will have to