ROY HENNESSEY’S ROSES 1 
ABOUT HENNESSEY ROSE PLANTS AND ROSE SHOWS 
It is best to realize every rose variety in existence is at some time 
marvelous, otherwise the originator would never have continued to prop- 
agate 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 cf 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 
different from the older varieties that the nurseryman has to look at the 
name stake to tell the difference. 
Tweny-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). 
It seems 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 repre- 
sented 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 Doctor” or that Lulu is not a large growing plant or that 
Treasure Island used to be very tempermental but that from this last crop 
I can promise you some of the longest, most gorgeous rosebuds in exis- 
tence. 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. TI repeat, 
people do amazing and astounding things to roses and then still expect 
them to grow and flourish! 
WOUND PROTECTION 
There are those who ignore my planting instructions and refuse to 
paint the huge wounds on the top where there is so much evaporation that 
often the big wood dies and you never get results that you could have 
otherwise. After this fcllow my instructions instead of doing what some 
other person says. 
Catalogs will not be sent to more than 3 names without personal 
application. 
