THE PIONEER OF A NEW RACE OF ROSES 
A NEW 
SPECIES 
“HUGONIS” 
UNLIKE ANY 
OTHER ROSE 
Recently brought from China by Plant Explorer Wilson and obtained by us through Veitch, of England , 
just before the war. 
This is an illustration of the individual flowers and 
shows the masses of bloom each slender branch will pro¬ 
duce. The branches arch gracefully, like the Spiraea Van 
Houttei. Our plants are on their own roots. 
REPORT BY 
Plant Explorer E. H. Wilson 
OF THE 
ARNOLD ARBORETUM 
Who Discovered This Rose 
in China 
“It is an upright-growing shrub with 
slender and spreading branches on which 
the fragrant flowers are borne in yard-long 
sprays of soft yellow. As I write in mid- 
November, the foliage is still on the shrub 
and has assumed a dark purple tint.” 
Order No. 855!). April 23, 1918. 
The Rugosa magnifica plants are fine and the Hugonis 
and Pillar Roses also. They are the kind of stock that 
justifies the reputation which your firm has acquired in 
Rose-culture.—A. C. M., Caldwell. N. J. 
We had Hugonis in bloom during the last snowstorm and I 
never saw a more beautiful sight.— Mrs. W. Van Fleet, 
Washington, D. C., spring, 1917. 
Hugonis is unlike any other Rose we know. We have 
watched it for years and have never yet known even a 
tip of a single branch to winterkill. The same excellent 
report comes from trials made in Massachusetts and 
Wisconsin. 
It bloomed here, this year, the first week in May, two 
weeks ahead of our otherwise earliest Roses. 
It is a spectacular show in itself. Every branch of 
the previous year’s growth becomes lined on all sides, 
to the very tip, with closely set, wide-open, single 
flowers like dainty yellow hollyhocks, and the branches 
bend over with the weight of bloom. 
For bouquets it is great. It comes too early for the 
shows, but a bunch of sprays which we displayed before 
the Executive Committee of the American Rose Society 
in May, elicited an enthusiastic welcome. 
This unique species is fine for shrub planting and 
makes a symmetrical bush about 6 feet in height and 
the same in diameter when fully matured. Picture this 
exquisite bush on your lawn, or at the corners of your 
house, in early spring. Think of the pleasure of looking 
forward daily from about the last week in April, when 
the buds begin to form, till the plant is a mass of fairy¬ 
like fluffy bloom the first week in May. 
When through blooming you will still have a most 
beautiful bush, for the acacia-like foliage on arching 
branches makes a most decorative shrub which, as far 
as we are aware, is never touched by disease of any kind 
but is clean and healthy always. An added attraction is 
the ruby-colored young shoots springing from the 
roots, this color gradually changing to a soft green as 
the shoot ages. The foliage remains on the plant until 
well into the fall, when it assumes a purple hue. 
Why not be the first to introduce this unique Rose 
in your neighborhood? 
ROSA HUGONIS—A GEM 
Editor Horticulture'. 
I note yours as to Rosa Hugonis in current issue. I have a strong¬ 
growing vigorous plant sent me by our old friend, Jackson Dawson, 
which is a thing of beauty at this present time. It has been out 
three winters and passed through the last unprotected and comes 
out uninjured—as good a test of hardiness as could be had. This is 
the third year of its blooming, always pleasing and admired by all. 
I have never seen any ‘'bugs” or troublesome insects on it; it is 
free from the ugly thorns of the Scotch rose; each branch is a gar¬ 
land of most beautiful yellow, elegantly garnished with small deep- 
colored foliage. I hold it as a gem. Yours, C. W. Hoitt. 
Nashua, N. H., May 21, 1918. 
Strong, field-grown, potted plants, 2 years old, ready for 
planting now to produce bloom next spring, $2 each; 
larger field-grown plants, ready November 15, $3 and $5 
each, □ (see page 3). C. & J. Hugonis Roses are grown 
on their own roots. 
“YARD-LONG SPRAYS OF BEAUTIFUL YELLOW BLOOMS” 
