The bundles are put up when roses are put into the storage houses, so you cannot 
select the varieties in your bundle. However, I maintain a display and experimental 
garden of over 1000 varieties of roses for the exact purpose of avoiding the propagatior 
of any duds. 
There is no further discount on this offer, so if you order these bundles along with 
a selected list of our regular top-grade plants please calculate your allowed discount on 
the total, MINUS the price of the special dozens, and then add in the bundle price or 
prices. 
WE GUARANTEE that no rose grower will become disgusted with rose growing 
through ordering Hennessey special dozens of roses! My reputation is behind these just 
as much as it is behind our biggest plants. Sometimes names get loose and these are put 
in the bundles without labels and are not counted 
Often you will find top grade plants in these second grade bundles. For instance, last 
year I had an oversupply of Treasure Island and Poinsetta, as well as some Stone. Well, 
they went into the second grade bundles. Again this year there will be lots too small to 
list, and to avoid the extra correspondence I will be putting these into the bundles so 
you are sure of wonderful value. Again, please do not ask for any special selection as I 
haven't time for extra correspondence. NONE SOLD FOR DELIVERY AFTER 
MARCH 10. 
ANENT HYBRID POLYANTHAS 
There has been a very decided lack in the sale of these wonderful things. I regretted 
it very much, at the same time not giving the matter much thought. After seeing a bed 
of annuals that were about through and looking like something the cats brought in, and 
realizing that they would have to be torn out and replaced with something else, I started 
to study the matter, and look back through the orders, and I found this out: Wherever 
a person bought six or more of a kind they were enthusiastic and bought more. Others 
remarked about the beauty of their garden. Then I noticed that where one or two of a 
kind, sometimes one of everything I had, there were never repeat sales—in fact, some- 
times they were sarcastic. 
The proof of this is that there is no more use for a person to buy one plant of a H. 
Poly—notice I do not use the ballyhoo word Floribunda, which the American Rose 
Society refused to recognize, as it had been used about one hundred years for a specie 
rose—than there would be to say, “Well, give me a glass of Lake Superior water; I 
want to see what the lake looks like.” 
There is no use to try to kid ourselves. Sales records prove that we are not able to 
judge the effects of mass by the individual. In fact, even the most marvelous red mass 
effect rose ever produced—and it is so good that one customer in Ohio swore that it 
was not harmed at all by last winter’s frost, though I think there must have been some 
wishful thinking. With me it stood zero without harm up on a half standard, while I 
lost all of my standards of Crimson Glory alongside—oh, yes, Nigger Boy is its name. 
To get back to where I was, a lot of people bought one “to see what it was like,” 
and, believe it or not, some of them even came right out and compared it with large 
flowered roses, forgetting that they were not grown for individual blooms, but for mass 
and continuity—in other words, color—in place of the annuals that they had grown 
before. So for that reason, if you cannot use six of a kind, do not buy any, for that is 
the way I intend to sell them from now on, NOT LESS THAN SIX OF A KIND, for 
that will protect the buyer as well as my reputation. Naturally, this does not mean those 
that are grown for their beautiful buds alone, such as Baby Alberic, Cecile Brunner, 
Perle d’Or, Topaz. 
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