October 31, 1914 



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tion of textiles, coins, paintings — in- 

 deed wherever the rose has figured in 

 art — with also records tracing the his- 

 tory of rare roses found in this gar- 

 den, kinds that dated liaelv lieyond the 

 beginning of the Christian era. and 

 then lie showed how cleverly screened 

 from the rose of the garden is a little 

 open-air theatre with turf seats, bloom- 

 ing roses for footlights and for stage 

 setting, where M. Gravereaux provides 

 entertainment especially of produc- 

 tions treating of the rose for the pleas- 

 ure of his friends from Paris. Espe- 

 cially favored are the members of the 

 French Rose Society and the Ladies' 

 French Rose Society, as well as dis- 

 tinguished visitors from abroad. Then 

 showing a photograph of M. (Jrave- 

 reaux, Mr. Pyle called attention to the 

 magnificent work abroad that has been 

 done by the amateurs, when they be- 

 come sufiiciently interested in jiopu- 

 larizing the rose for all the people. 

 A.s for example, M. Gravereaux himseil 

 an interested amateur, was largely in- 

 strumental in persuading the authori- 

 ties of the city of Paris to establish in 

 one of the public parks, the Bagatelle 

 Gardens in the Bois de Bologne, a 

 magnificent garden of three or five 

 acres in extent, with a completely rep- 

 resentative collection to which are an- 

 nually added the seedling roses invited 

 from the hybridizers of all nations. 

 Another feature which lends unusual 

 distinction to this garden is the an- 

 nual meeting of men prominent in the 

 rose growing industry who are invited 

 as representatives from all nations, in- 

 cluding England. Ireland, Holland. Ger- 

 many, Luxemburg, France and Amei- 

 Ica, who bring their own intimate 

 knowledge of values regarding new 

 roses to bear in the decision, upon 

 kinds most worthy of the gold medal 

 and grand prize awards so highly cher- 

 ished by the originators. Mr. Pyle Il- 

 lustrated the above with a series of 

 photographs lastly showing a group of 

 some twenty such judges standing 

 around the rose .lonkheer ,1. L. Mock, 

 which that season was awarded the 

 gold medal, and in a comprehensive 

 summary of E^iropean practices, the 

 speaker pointed out the fact that the 

 difference between the American and 

 the European industry may be seen in 

 the fact that al)road the amateur.s 

 with all their resources of time and 

 mone.v and enthusiasm have been har- 

 nessed to the happy task of popular- 

 izing roses. They "have it going" and 

 the motive power appears to be auto- 

 malic within the amateur. With re- 

 spect to rose shows, organized ama- 

 teur rose gardens, we as yet are in the 

 pioneer stage, but happily in America 

 have examples of how these things can 

 be and are being carried out most suc- 

 cessfully. 



With an illustration of ex-President 

 Roosevelt sitting at his desk in ad- 

 miration for a large boucpiet nf mag- 

 nificent Richmond roses, the speaker 

 related the incident when last the 

 American Rose Society met in Wash- 

 ington and upon adjournment went in 

 a body to meet the President in the 

 White House, presenting him with a 

 bouquet of roses of American origin. 

 After interrupting his remarks to con- 

 gratulate Mr. Hill, the originator. Mr. 

 Roosevelt expressed the great feeling 

 of satisfaction which always came to 

 him "when we Americans are able to 

 produce what we need for our own 

 use." 



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Too little incentive and precious lit- 

 tle reward indeed, in the past, have 

 been offered to the American hybri- 

 dizer, and this is one of the various 

 points among others that I shall men- 

 tion, which calls for our corrective at- 

 tention, if we would develop our rose 

 growing industry. Let me recapitu- 

 late. We have already shown the need 

 for a series of test gardens. There is 

 no question but that there is an enor- 

 mous field for the development of 

 roses, particularly for American condi- 

 tions, and therefore that we should en- 

 courage hybridizers. Furthermore, we 

 need to organize rose societies, garden 

 clubs, among amateur rose growers, to 

 encourage and assist in every way pos- 

 sible with organized local effort along 

 these lines, and last but by no means 

 least we must get going the movement 

 to plant public rose gardens for all the 

 people. 



You will be interested in the prog- 

 ress already made with the test garden 

 movement, which was launched a year 

 ago last April at the annual meeting 

 of the American Rose Society, and also 

 of the Society of American Florists 

 and Ornamental Horticulturists held in 

 New York, and as evidence of what 

 has been done you will see in these 

 pictures the splendid location jn-o- 

 vided for us at Washington, just 

 across the Potomac River, by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, who have 

 charge of the garden under our au- 

 spices. The next i)ictures also show 

 an equal number of some two or three 

 tliousand roses that were planted out 

 this spring on the grounds of Cornell 

 University at Ithaca, \ew York. 



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