June 2, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



70S 



Dwarf Peach Trees 



The accompanying illustration is from a photograph 

 of a dwarf peach tree at the height of the blossoming 

 season. This tree is growing on St. Julien plum root. 

 It was propagated in France. It was planted in the 

 grounds at Massachusetts Agricultural College four 

 years ago this spring. Since that time it has twice 

 been killed back to the ground by the severe winters, 

 and it has borne one full crop of fruit. This is a 

 pretty good record I think. 



There is much interest everywhere in dwarf fruit 

 trees. In many ways the peach is one of the most 

 attractive fruit trees for dwarfing, because it comes so 

 early into bearing and because it is so thoroughly 

 adapted to garden culture. 



In this country it is practically impossible to get St. 

 Julien plum for use as stocks even when it is imported 

 from France. It does not grow well and is hard to 

 Im.l. We found excellent results in dwarfing peaches 

 by budding them on American plum or on dwarf sand 

 cherry. They mav also be budded on the common 

 Myrobalan plum. 



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ROSA SERICEA VAR : PTERACANTHA 

 (See Colored Supplement.) 



Although the rose owes its universal popularity chief- 

 ly to its glorious fragrant blossoms, there is a charm 

 and distinct beauty in the foliage of many and in the 

 stems of some. Others again are remarkable for their 

 fruits, even more perhaps than for their flowers. The 

 young shoots of almost all roses are attractive, but 

 those of the chinas and the teas are especially so. When 

 unfolding, the tender shoots are tinged with shades of 

 ruby red and bronze and then have a charm almost as 

 great as when the flowers are out. Among the wild 

 species of roses none perhaps has more beautiful leafage 

 than Rosa rubrifolia. which is quite worth growing orj 

 this account alone. 



Of roses whose fruits are of decorative value in the 

 garden, the Japanese briar, Eosa rugosa is one of the 

 most striking. This rose makes a large bush which in 

 early summer is a mass of large pink or white flowers, 

 according to the variety planted, and in late summer 

 and autumn the flowers are followed by the large and 

 brilliantly colored fruits. Eosa lueida is an excellent 

 plant for the rock garden. Not only are the crimson 

 berries most effective, but the glossy leafage too gives 

 an additional beauty to the plant. Eosa villosa is an- 

 other rose with showy fruits, which are red. White 

 Eosa spinosissim and Eosa cinnamomea are others. 



Of roses with colored stems that shown in the ac- 

 companying colored plate is undoubtedly the most strik- 

 ing and handsome variety yet in c merce. One can 



well imagine what a glorious picture in the garden 

 might be made In a group of this rose, its large and 

 prominent winged spines and Leafage of tender green 

 combining to produce 1 an effect unique among roses. 

 Rosa sericea is a lovely single rose from the Himalayas 

 that is little known in gardens. A well-grown plant 

 produces perfect wreaths of creamy white blossoms on 

 its arching shoots. Rosa sericea var. pteracantha was 

 first exhibited in the United Kingdom, as Ear as I am 

 aware, at the great international Horticultural exhibi- 

 tion held m Edinburgh in September last. It was then 

 awarded a first-class certificate. It was exhibited by 

 Messrs. Paul & Son of Cheshunt, for Messrs. Vilmorin, 

 Andrieus & Co. It was stated to have beeD raised by 

 M. Philippe de Vilmorin. It was not in flower, but 

 this was immaterial as n was easy to see that its value 

 as a -anion plant lay in the large winged crimson 

 spines. These are arranged along the branches almost 

 continuously, as may be seen by referring to the col- 

 ored plate. Mr. George Paul, who had seen the rose at 

 I.e. Barr.es, France, stated that the plant grew 8 feet or 

 L0 feet high and that the appearance of the arching 

 stems with the light upon the rich crimson coloring of 

 the spines mac a remarkably fine picture. This one 



