should prosper through defoliation. The 
supposition is fallacious. Terrible no 
end. The truth lies in the diametrically 
opposite direction. 
Rose plants without adequate foliage 
starve to death. Roses prosper in direct 
ratio to their volume of foliage—it is 
the law of jungle and garden. 
The restoration of a vigorous root sys¬ 
tem during the first year after trans¬ 
planting is directly dependent upon ade¬ 
quate foliage upon the plant and should 
be the primary object and consideration. 
If through removing flower stems all 
new growth is removed from a recently 
transplanted plant, the plant is without 
adequate foliage to secure and digest the 
food required for its restoration to full 
vigor. 
It is thus of vital importance that the 
first flower stems produced by a recently 
transplanted plant be left on the phuit 
that their foliage may feed the plant. 
Each year the heat of August sees the 
passing of many feeble rose plants that 
knew great vigor before transplanting, 
rose plants persistently kept feeble by 
want of food resulting from unwise re¬ 
moval of their foliage as rapidly as pro¬ 
duced. Permitting a transplanted rose 
plant to retain all new growth and fol¬ 
iage until mid-season is amazingly pro¬ 
ductive of plant vigor that will pay divi¬ 
dends for years to come. 
The age-old myth that newly trans¬ 
planted rose plants should not be permit¬ 
ted to bloom should be disregarded. We 
respectfully request that all plants that 
go out from our field be permitted to 
bloom according to their pleasure. 
Cutting Thereafter 
Blossoms should be removed from rose 
plants only when adequate foliage will 
remain after the removal. It is a wise 
policy to leave one half of the blossoms 
produced upon the plant for plant pros¬ 
perity. The resultant vigor and produc¬ 
tivity will result in a far larger number 
of blossoms to cut if one half be left. A 
productive rose plant devoid of foliage 
would be a miracle. 
A Year Hence 
A year hence the production of the 
marvelous Gloriana will have been in¬ 
creased ten fold. 
Black Knight, Ireland Hampton, and 
Nellie E. Hillock will have been carried 
forward, one hundred twenty-five thous¬ 
and plants were budded to the latter 
variety during the past summer. 
Dream Parade (also to be patented) 
will be available for meager dissemina¬ 
tion, some four or five thousand plants. 
A stupendous thrill awaits the rose 
world in Dream Parade. In the spring¬ 
time_amber. In heat—the delicate but 
vivid pink to be found on the inside of a 
seashell. In late autumn—burnt-orange. 
And in between, combinations and shad¬ 
ings of those colors—colors tenaciously 
held in the open blossom. A companion 
rose to Gloriana, another seedling of 
Condesa de Sastago, with vigorous, up¬ 
right growth, and amazing resistance to 
petal-destruction by heat. Stunning 
beauty combined with great worth. 
Other un-named varieties of proven 
merit will have been carried forward 
against the day of introduction—notably 
certain varieties resulting from a cross 
of Nellie E. Hillock by Golden Dawn. 
An Invitation 
It appears that the great Fair at Dal¬ 
las and the famous Centennial Celebra¬ 
tion at Fort Worth will be carried for¬ 
ward through another summer. In that 
event many lovers of the rose will doubt¬ 
less be in attendance. 
Our home station, at Arlington, is lo¬ 
cated midway betw'een those cities upon 
the wide thoroughfare that joins them. 
All varieties above-mentioned will be 
standing in the field at Arlington. We 
would be delighted for you to see them. 
Plant Patents 
All Hillock roses have been or will be 
patented, the Patent Bureau granting. 
The roses above-mentio 2 ied are but the 
first of a line of Hillock roses already 
in existence and undergoing multiplica¬ 
tion preparatory to introduction after 
extended and widespread test. 
Plant origination has seldom proved 
profitable upon this continent, quick loss 
of control by the originator having pre¬ 
vented recovery of the primary costs of 
such origination, with profit. The Plant 
Patent Act, so called, was passed upon 
the theory that more extended control 
by the originator would stimulate plant 
origination to the ultimate benefit of the 
public. 
We will profit directly from patent 
protection granted to us in the name of 
the public. It would appear that the 
public should profit directly also. New 
roses of real merit now appearing in our 
hands with continuing regularity, not 
only offer to us direct profit through 
patent protection, but also offer the pos¬ 
sibility, and feasibility, of a business 
unique in rose annals—a business devot¬ 
ed to the origination, propagation and 
dissemination of our own varieties and of 
them alone. A business so ordered does 
not exist upon the earth. We are mov¬ 
ing directly towards such consummation, 
and rapidly. 
We believe that the public should also 
profit directly from patent protection 
granted in its name. Therefore, instead 
of the more advanced prices at which 
new rose varieties are habitually intro¬ 
duced, Hillock roses will be introduced 
henceforth at One Dollar per plant, un¬ 
less, and until, experience proves such 
introductory price impossible and inade¬ 
quate. 
1/. §. HILLOCK, Originator /Irlinqton^ Te^a$ 
