ABOUT HENNESSEY ROSE PLANTS AND ROSE SHOWS 
It is best to realize every rose variety in existence is at some time mar- 
velous, otherwise the originator would never have continued to propagate it. 
This should be a lesson to you to not say, when you see a rose, that you want 
it. It may be impossible to live with, having a disposition that you as an 
amateur simply cannot seem to please. It may catch all the mildew that 
comes around or simply cannot let a blackspot spore go by, also have a lot 
of other bad habits that in humans would cause a divorce. 
I do my best to not propagate all of the new names that are so little dif- 
ferent from the older varieties that the nurseryman has to look at the name 
stake to tell the difference. 
Twenty-five years ago it was high pressure selling by word of mouth 
and personality. Today it is being done with color. The photographers are 
working overtime getting pictures under the most favorable conditions that 
you may in the garden never be able to duplicate. The engravers do a little 
improving so that the result, even if you never get a bloom, pays for your 
efforts (I hope). | 
I seem to be fairly successful, judging by my customers, in my picking 
only those that will give results for you with a minimum of swearing and 
I believe that I have about every top color and form represented IF IT IS 
POSSIBLE TO AND STILL HAVE A GOOD PLANT or else I will tell you 
what to expect with such as that most gorgeous of all pink roses, “The Doc- 
tor” or that Lulu is not a large growing plant or that Treasure Island used 
to be very temperamental but that from this last crop I can promise you 
some of the longest, most gorgeous rosebuds in existence. The plant does 
not like the midwest sun for more than a few morning hours even though 
the bloom can really take the heat, yet in the northwest it will make a good 
plant though not a huge one. 
If you are intending to buy new rose plants to fill in those beds where 
some old ones died, don’t do it, as I will refuse to sell them to you if I know 
about it, : 
Unless— 
... you dig out all of the old soil for about a foot and a half square and deep 
and replace with soil free of rose material, as my plants or others will not 
give results unless you do. “Toxins” is the answer. I repeat, people do amaz- 
ng 2a sastounding things to roses and then still expect them to grow and 
ourish! . 

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