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GARDENERS' CHROMCLE 



Hardy Roses for the Garden 



ALEX. CUMMINGS, Jr. 



The addition of tlie more recent Hybrid Tea class has 

 given the rose a new standing as a garden subject. It is 

 not only the flower of June, but we also regard it as a 

 flower to. enhance the garden, from earlv June until frost 

 — an added quality that at once pronounces the Hybrid 

 Tea as the type "par excellent" for general garden cul- 

 ture. We may also consider the majority of its varieties 

 sufficiently well constituted to replace, to a large extent, 

 the older types for any ornamental purpose. 



The genus Rosa 

 embraces a great 

 many distinct sec- 

 tions or families, yet 

 the true garden or 

 bedding roses sus- 

 ceptible to successful 

 culture in our cli- 

 mate are restricted 

 to a few well-known 

 types, namely, the 

 Tea-Scented Roses 

 in a few' of the more 

 sturdy kinds, the 

 Hybrid Tea, the Hy- 

 brid Perpetual or 

 R e m o n t a n t, the 

 dwarf Polyantha. 

 and the newer Per- 

 netiana group. The 

 Bourbon, Bengal. 

 Noisette and other 

 less known types are 

 hardly worthy of 

 this distinction, ex- 

 cept in a few in- 

 stances. Some 

 knowdedge of the 

 characteristics of 

 these types is essen- 

 tial to the rosarian, 

 particularly when 

 pruning operations 

 are in order, or in 

 the arrangement of 

 the rose garden, the 

 success of which de- 

 pends so much on 

 the proper disposal 

 of the various 

 classes. 



K a June display. Columbia — A OroOTuj; Pink Rose nxtvi 

 only is desired the Mt'dal for the best rose of Amerieau o: 

 Hybrid Remontant 

 type should be 



drawn from largely, as it is their characteristic to make a 

 prodigious showing at that season, and for this reason they 

 are commended to the owner of the private estate, who is 

 absent during the late Summer and would therefore prefer 

 the early display. A limited number of the varieties will 

 flow"r more or less during the autumn months, so that by 

 confining the planting list to a careful selection, a credit- 

 able showing could be made at that time. In pink varie- 

 ties. Mrs. John Laing. Paul Neyron, George Arends, 

 Paul's Earlv Hlush, Mrs. R. G. Sharman Crawford, and 

 ,'\nna dc Diesbach are about the best in this respect. 



The red roses of tliis tvpe are sadlv deficient in late 



flowering qualities, the best being Ulrich Brunner and 

 Gloire de Chedane Guinoisseau, varieties distinct in form, 

 although closelv related. 



Good white roses are limited to a few varieties in any 

 type, but particularly so in the Hybrid Remontant. Frau 

 K. Druschki is easily the best in this section and is, in 

 fact, generally considered the queen of all white roses, 

 regardless of classification. 



For June flowering only, we can add a nvuiiber of ex- 

 cellent kinds to the 

 foregoing. In white 

 and flesh shades, the 

 varieties Clio, Mar- 

 garet Dickson, 

 Gloire Lyonnaise, 

 and Mabel Morrison 

 are well worthy of a 

 place in the rose 

 garden. 



In red roses. Gen- 

 eral Jacqueminot, 

 known as the Jack 

 Rose for over half a 

 century, is still a 

 favorite, Marie Bau- 

 man, Alfred Colomb, 

 Marie Rady, Sena- 

 teur Vaisse, Jules 

 M a r g o 1 1 e n, and 

 Hugh Dickson are 

 each good garden 

 \arieties. Hugh 

 Dickson stands out 

 prominently among 

 these and should not 

 he omitted from the 

 planting list. 



The Pink Remon- 

 tant roses that flower 

 only in June also in- 

 clude our hardiest 

 garden kinds — Mad- 

 am G. Luizet, Oak- 

 mont, Baronne Pre- 

 vost. Magna Charta 

 and Baroness Roths- 

 child are varieties 

 that will resist our 

 winter conditions 

 without protection. 



To sum up the 

 good qualities of this 

 type — qualities that 

 endear — we cannot 

 over-estimate the wonderful display which they are 

 capable of producing in the early Summer, the perfect 

 form, substance and clear coloring of the flowers, com- 

 lined with a constitution that well adapts them for beauti- 

 fying exposed locations where the more tender roses 

 would have a 



rded the Gertriuie 

 ill iiitrodueed <i'i.'//i 



.1/. Hubbard Gold 

 • the last Hve years. 



struggle to exist. 



The H\r!Rin Tea 



For general garden culture, however, the Hybrid Tea 



tvpe has attained a degree of popularity that no other 



tyjie can boast of. and this, we may assume, is the logical 



test of all ;iround sui)eri<irit\'. Combining the good 



