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GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



ROSE WORLD AGOG WITH ANTICIPATION 



""PriE rose-world is just now aii^og with anticipations of 

 new red roses, and there is a rose of recent introduc- 

 tion which may 1-e employed to inijort its marvelous col- 

 oring to hybrids that shall satisfy our tastes for something 

 other than we've got: It is R. Moyesii, a single of the 

 climbing habit, introduced from China in 1904, but said to 

 be of such a curiously intense coloration that hybridists 

 are probably even now seeking to prepare us new won- 

 ders from it. If the solidity of coloring which distin- 

 guishes R. Moyesii can be imjjarted to the hybrid tea tyiK- 

 we shall l;e blessed with something wonderful in red roses, 

 for Moyesii is described as perfectly wonderful enough 

 in itself. 



It is an extraordinary' fact that notwithstanding the em- 

 inence of British rose-growers there is, as yet (though the 

 subject is now under discussion between the authoritative 

 bodies there, no delinite rose garden which establishes the 

 hall mark of rose-growing for this great cult. America 

 does this l>etter, for Cornell and Yale universities have 

 established rose-gardens with more than the garden as 

 their viewpoint. France has ]>aid her triljute to the rose 

 by the great rosery at Bagatelle. But it has remained for 

 that great rosarian of France, M. Jules Gravereaux, to 

 design a .scientific memorial to the rose : in his tremendous 

 collection of some eight thousand varieties he has set out 

 a vista of Rose History. In this retrospective collection 

 there is traced the history, distribution, and development 

 of the rose in a manner which we believe is without equal 

 elsewhere in the world. This is his modest description of 

 it, but consider what a labor and achievement it represents : 



"Here is exhibited a series of characteristic types show- 

 ing the diflferent aspects of the Rose throughout the ages. 

 On one hand are the wild Roses, classified according to a 

 new- stand]X)int, the probable order of their dispersal over 



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"Firstly, the most imj^erfect Roses, which must have 

 Ijeen the earliest comers. Rosa berberifnlia with simple 

 leaves, R. maracanadica, R. minutifolia, K. niicniiihylla, 

 etc. ; then the Roses with prickles, the epidemiis covered 

 with hairs and fine ncicules, whose habitats are the high 

 altitudes, R. W'ebbiana, R. sericea, R. acicularis, etc.: then 

 the Roses witliout prickles of the lower mountains, R. 

 alpina, R. ferruginea, R. cinnamomea, etc. ; the Roses of 

 the forests, needle-iirickled, R. canina, R. rubiginosa, R. 

 iixv(xlon, etc.; then the Roses of the warm climates with 

 shiny foliage, as R. liracteata, R. Itevigata, etc. : and lastly, 

 the roses with perfect organs, probably the most recent, 

 R. indica, R. moschata, R. multiflora, etc. 



"h'acing these wild roses are the cultivated ones which 

 we can, starting from the Greek civilization, know with 

 some certainty. Beginning with the Roses of Theophras- 

 tus, the centifolia and the Rose of Mount Pangseus and 

 concluding with the most recent races, Wichuraiana and 

 Pernetiana, about fifty types show the successive stages 

 of our garden Roses. 



"The history of these Roses comprises three j>erii)(ls — 

 viz. : from the earlier times to the end of the eighteenth 

 century is the region of the centifolia and Provins Roses ; 

 at the end of the eighteenth century was the period of the 

 importation into Europe of Roses altogether dififerent, 

 those which came from the Far East : and finally in the 

 nineteenth century appeared the new races, the results of 

 crossing the latter with our ancient varieties.'' 



in this grand rose-growing country we ought to attempt 

 ;i similar enterprise — not in plagiarism, but to submit to a 

 scientific basis our tribute to the rose. Queen among 

 Flowers, whom we, by merely "growing" have relegated 

 to the position of handmaid. — South African Gardcnini; 

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