The performance of Hennessey plants is no accident. They perform because I put an 
enormous amount of time and skill into producing them. After I have done my part 
one hundred fifty per cent, it is then up to the buyer to do his. 
Hennessey rose plants will survive treatment that other rose plants are absolutely 
unable to come through, and because of their great vitality and fine roots, they will live 
in difficult climates and perform where rose growing has been given up with ordinary 
plants. But a rose plant is a living organism and even my plants can be greatly weakened 
or killed by determined people. 
People do awe-inspiring things to rose plants and then blandly expect them to flourish. 
Some of the commoner things are leaving them in the package for weeks, or even months 
before planting; enthusiastically whacking off all the roots and leaving the big tops 
exposed to hot drying sun, failing ever to water them after planting, etc., etc. 
There are also people who plant them with moderate accuracy, whereat the plant starts 
to grow vigorously. Then every rose that appears is cut with every possible inch of stem, 
so the plant has left virtually no leaves to function on. HOWEVER, I will replace all 
plants of which complaint is made within five days of arrival, if the plant or plants are 
mailed back to me. 
"HENNESSEY ON ROSES" 
Most of the directions for rose care have been omitted from this catalogue because 
they have been treated so much more fully, and with all the underlying reasons for every 
course of procedure taken care of so thoroughly, in my new rose book, “Hennessey On 
Roses.” Rose growers will profit from omission of necessarily sketchy outlines of rose 
care in this catalogue, and a study of the full subject together with the “‘why’s’”’ behind it. 
The book of about 65,000 words, illustrated with numerous photographs taken in 
my own gardens, will be available at a pre-publication price of $2.50 until the publication 
date of October 1, and after that at the price of $3.50. Orders may be sent directly to: 
Roy Hennessey, Hillsboro, Oregon. The book is entirely new, and contains innumerable 
scientific facts behind rose behavior that have never been discovered before. It is a book 
of applied rose science made enjoyably readable. The book not only discusses all the 
facts pertaining to a knowledge of the rose which have enabled me to produce my 
remarkable plants (which are no accident!), but answers every question that has ever 
been asked me on the rose. Every bit of the book is designed to be applied to your own 
rose garden. 
At this date hundreds of copies have been sold, previous to publication, in all parts 
of the country where my roses have gone. You won't find anything in the book approached 
from the conventional standards, and only a couple of “theories.’” The rest of the material 
consists of rose facts, the knowledge of which enables me to produce Hennessey roses. 
A knowledge of them will enable you to care for your roses with outstanding results, and 
you will greatly improve your enjoyment of your rose garden because you will be in 
possession of all my knowledge of what makes roses do as they do. 
The book is not padded or dated with discussion of existing Hybrid Tea rose varieties 
which would make it obsolete in a few years. Description of best modern rose varieties 
is the function of this rose catalogue. 
WINTER PROTECTION OF ROSES 
The best winter protection is to hill earth up around the canes of the bushes to a 
height of at least 8 inches. Take precautions to have these mounds WET when freezing 
weather comes on. If the mounds freeze when dry the bushes may not survive. When 
the mounds are solidly frozen, cover with evergreen boughs or similar loose open material 
to a depth of about six inches, The covering is to keep the mound solidly frozen by 
giving it additional protection against the sun’s rays, and also to keep greater cold from 
penetrating. 
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