Due to many added illustrations herein and the weight limitations by 
the post office, we have eliminated temporarily the "We Recommend” 
section appearing in catalog 1954. But the spirit is still with us and here ~ 
again we shall recommend”, albeit with fewer words and furbelows. 
Vibrant Jean Gordon, author of "PAGEANT OF THE ROSE” dropped 
in here this summer with handsome daughter, a pug dog, and the most 
cram-jammed automobile I have seen since ‘the covered wagon.” With 
what? Oh “just things she had collected along the way.” Her book likewise 
is packed with rarities about the rose. Write the American Rose Society, 
Columbus, Ohio for a copy—best $5 you ever spent! 
The Shaffers are still growing those exotic tropical plants at 1220—4lst 
Street, Santa Cruz, Calif. From there you are only a step to the center 
of the begonia world, at Capitola—a sight to remember from early sum- 
mer to fall. 
When you stop at the Pine Inn, Carmel, to see a celebrity (or just a 
character) sipping his ‘Bloody Mary,” don't miss our Rose Brown in the 
lobby, just now fresh from her conquest of Hawaii—And ask in the 
Golden Bough for our friend, ‘Chrissie, the Peddler’’—a treat to meet. Say 
Harris Darcy or the catalog-writer sent you. 
Over-night in the old-charm atmosphere of the Pine Inn, can be greatly 
enhanced by breakfast in bed. If you are lucky, your tray may be 
adorned with one of those inimitable miniature bouquets by flower-artist, 
Virginia Nielsen. Only Mrs. Nielsen could glorify a breakfast egg. And 
see her flower arrangements ‘round and about—they rival the long famous 
flower displays at Santa Maria Inn. 
You haven't “done” Carmel until you have visited Carmel Valley, in 
general, and Los Laureles Lodge in particular, where Herb and Ollie 
(not Alice’) Bruck will be your hosts at luncheon, dinner and the night 
too, if you say so. This is a really charming place—you'll probably end 
by spending a week! 
Late evening. | intended to write tonight about that "stormy petrel” of 
rosedom, Roy Hennessey, who lives with the eagles, far above the 
Columbia River, at Scappoose, Oregon. But best to get a good night's 
sleep for said Roy is no easy subject and should be done with a “fresh” 
viewpoint. 
Next morning. Those who receive the Hennessey catalog will remember 
that for several editions Roy and the catalog-writer have been “playing 
checkers on the second floor of the poor-house.”” New readers be not 
alarmed—we haven't reached the second floor yet, even if we do grow 
a lot of old-fashioned roses. 
Get a copy of Roy's catalog. For two bits (25c in formal circles) you will 
get a conglomeration of deep-down rose information, a listing of good 
roses on the right (?) understock, a powerful lot of “don'ts” ("prune no 
roots’), and some opinions on “‘eggsperts’’, professors, and “‘academics” in 
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