SINGLE ROSES 
“Single” roses have usually five or six petals, and “semi-double”’ roses ten or twelve 
petals. However, in the descriptions of those roses listed under Hybrid Teas, the term 
semi-double usually means up to or around twenty petals, the term thus being ‘used with 
different meanings according to class of roses described. 
CECIL—The finest yellow single rose, of intense color and extremely large size, with 
petals of open bloom tending to be quilled. When this rose appeared objections were 
made that it was entirely too large for a single rose! On a plant of medium height 
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INNOCENCE—This enchanting twelve petalled rose has a slender bud of delicate peach 
opening into a big snowy bloom centered with golden stamens. Medium height. $1.00 
KATHLEEN MILLS—A really marvelous new ten-petalled pink rose, with waved petals 
of heavy satin; delicate pink edged with wine-rose. Large as it grows in the garden 
it possesses the further property of expanding enormously in size when cut and in 
water, and is deliciously fragrant. Medium height. .2..-..2..--.2..2--cecccscececenccceecesestoes $1.00 
I am dropping the variety Dainty Bess, as I consider Kathleen Mills its superior in 
every way. Its petals have a crystalline look and its huge blooms remind one of a 
marvelous water lily. 
MUTABILIS (Rosa Chinensis Mutabilis)—A perfectly amazing and delightful thing of 
exotic fairy beauty; the two-inch blossoms, single and dainty, open sulphur yellow 
changing rapidly then to orange, later red, and finally to crimson, so that you have this 
unbelievable variation, all fresh and gay, oa one plant. And the plant itself is lovely 
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SUNDAY BEST—This brilliant rose will make observers open their eyes in astonish- 
ment if you use it rightly. It produces masses of very large single blooms of vivid 
crimson to carmine with a snowy white eye. It is good at all temperatures from forty 
to one hundred degrees, but the colors are of course deeper and richer in part shade 
and with water and humidity. It is a semi-climber, growing about six feet in a season, 
and if pillared or grown as a fountain shaped specimen plant, either alone or among 
shrubbery, it is immensely striking. It is among the very earliest roses to bloom in 
spring, and gives forth a continual flood of bloom all season long. It is always 
perfectly healthy and dependable. If you do not want a climber simply cut off the 
climbing shoot and the rest of the plant will keep right on blooming. In addition to 
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FOR SINGLE RED SEE KAREN POULSEN IN H. POLYS 
SPECIAL DOZENS $4.00 
We are this season selling bundles containing at least twelve rose bushes for $4.00. 
The bushes are our second grade plants, and average exactly as high in quality as the 
average top grade plant sold at full price. Naturally the quality is infinitely higher than 
many so-called top grade plants, and not to be compared with other second grade plants. 
In each bundle is a balanced selection of reds, pinks, yellows, multicolors, bicolors, 
and those in the coppery and salmon tones. All are labeled with names of varieties. 
These are Hennessey bushes as carefully bud-selected as are all the rest of our bushes. 
They simply did not grow as big in the field as our ‘Hennessey standard” rose plants, 
due to conditions of weather, drainage, etc. But the vitality-building process has been as 
carefully watched with them as with our big standard plants. 
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