My experience with roses before last year has been only with the old roses that have always been in
my family-- ones they always called "seven sisters" but I've found out from the net that eighty
bazillion kind of roses are called seven sisters (photo of one of mine)
http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/sevensis.jpg

Anyway, the hips on that rose are only about a half an inch or so across. Last year I bought a few
"modern" types of roses and this year bought more, but I've been deadheading them to encourage more
blooming. But I had taken it for granted that about a half-inch or so was basically how big rose
hips got. But today I was at Wal-Mart and saw a Don Juan rose with a hip on it that was almost the
diameter or a US half dollar, pear-shaped, and orange. I was shocked at how big it was-- big enough
to contain several of what I had thought to be a normal sized rose hip.

So how big do those suckers get at their biggest?