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ROSA HUGONIS. 



A Neiv Hardy, Ycllozu Rose from China. 



David Fairchild. 



If you see a particularly beautiful picture hanging in a friend's, 

 house your first question is, "Who painted it?" yet how few of the^ 

 people who visit a rose garden and admire the beauties of color 

 and form ever realize that practically all of our cultivated double 

 roses are almost as much the result of man's work as a picture 

 is. These living forms have arisen from the greatest artificial 

 mixing of species which man has been able to bring about by the 

 process of hybridization. 



Wild roses from all over the world have entered into their an- 

 cestry and made them what they are, so that to a rosarian the 

 history of a rose's ancestry is quite as fascinating as is a family 

 tree to a student of genealogy. 



To create a rose which will delight thousands of people must 

 be as keen and wonderful a pleasure as intellectual man can 

 enjoy; long after he has crumbled to dust generations of beau- 

 tiful women, happy children, old men and young lovers will bury 

 their faces in its petals and forget for the moment all else but its 

 beauty. 



Next to this pleasure, perhaps, is the enjoyment that comes, 

 from finding a wild rose in some far-off land where it blooms! 

 unseen by cultivated eyes, and knowing that it will become the^ 

 admired and loved garden treasure of a whole great civilized 

 country. 



I do not know if Father Hugo Scallan still lives or not, nor 

 whether his life was a happy one, but if he is alive it would surely 

 give him the keenest kind of pleasure to watch the career of a 

 yellow rose which he found in China. j 



In 1899 he sent seeds of this rose to the British Museum, the 

 authorities there sent it to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew — 

 that great institution from which so many things of value have 

 come into cultivation ; and from Kew we obtained seeds for the 

 United States. Very early each spring it blooms and it is yearly 

 attracting the attention and arousing the Enthusiasm of more 

 and more flower-loving Americans. 



Rosa hugonis is the name that has been given to this beautiful 

 yellow rose that deserves a place in every dooryard in America. 

 It is the earliest blooming of almost all the roses and earlier than 

 any other yellow rose. It is of a lovely shade of yellow, is deli- 

 cately perfumed and produces its single flowers in such profu- 

 sion as almost to conceal the plant. It is perfectly hardy, not 

 being injured by — 22 deg. F., which cannot be said of most of 

 the other yellow roses. 



