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Where roses are priced in collections or groups, no further discounts are allowed. 
"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 
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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 the price of $3.50. Send orders 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. 
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. 
SUN OR SHADE 
The flower of the rose plant has been the chief target of the hybridizers, and in 
some cases a bloom has been created that would stand a lot of sun, In fact, it would 
have to have it or else grow slowly enough in order to give its best colors (see Hen- 
nessey on Roses to further clarify this paragraph). This statement, ‘‘a lot of sun,’’ would 
possibly mean in June when the roses are at their best. That would not mean in August 
when the sun was beating the life out of even the cactus, and with no humidity in sight. 
Different sections of the country have to interpret this more or less. For instance, on 
the northern seacoast a rose plant might go to town with full strong sun, while the 
same sun a hundred miles inland in a hot valley would not be to the plant’s liking, 
even though the bloom was marvelous. 
So I am going to recommend that for all hot areas you plant all of your roses so 
that they will get several hours shade in midday. Rose plants do not like the strong 
sun beating down on them all day long, even though they tolerate it and bloom and 
grow. As many have no other place to plant them, I suggest that they put up a minia- 
ture lath house over them in the hottest weather—that is, if rose blooms are of more 
importance than the looks of a lath house. | 
And speaking of pink, where there is no yellow in its makeup, base of flower, etc., 
it will usually fade considerably in the heat, so plant your pink roses in part shade. 
Pink is a dilution of red and if red does not hold, what can pink do? 
