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HORTICULTURE 



July 31, 1920 



CHINESE ROSES 



The severe winter like that of 1917- 

 18 has injured several of the Roses of 

 western Chinai although apparently 

 none of them have been killed. Rosa 

 Helenae, the handsomest perhaps of 

 the Roses discovered by Wilson, has 

 lost much of its wood and will not 

 flower this year; and Rosa multibrac- 

 teata, which has not been injured be- 

 fore, has been killed to the ground. 

 The Chinese form of Rosa Roxburgii 

 (var. normalis), which flowered last 

 year for the first time in the Arbore- 

 tum, has had no flowers this season, 

 although the wood has not been much 

 injured. Rosa Moyesii has been little 

 injured, but has flowered very sparing- 

 ly and in the Arboretum has never 

 lived up to the reputation it has gained 

 in England. Rosa Hugonis was not in- 

 jured by the winter, but it did not pro- 

 duce quite such a large crop of flowers 

 as in previous years, and one excep- 

 tionally hot day nearly ruined these 

 just as they were opening. No new de- 

 velopment among roses shows that the 

 beauty of the flowers of Father Hugo's 

 rose is equalled by that of any other 

 Chinese species. Uninjured by the 

 cold of the past winter, the form of 

 Rosa Multiflora from Western China 

 (var, cathayensis) has not before been 

 more thickly covered with its pale pink 

 clu.stred flowers. This rose can be 

 grown as a bush with long arching 

 stems as it appears in the Arboretum, 

 or it can be used successfully to cover 

 a large arbor, as it has in another 

 Massachusetts garden. The flowers are 

 as beautiful as those of most of the 

 popular Rambler Roses of garden 

 origin, and the plant is hardier than 

 many of these roses. To the students 

 of roses this form of Rosa Multiflora is 

 of interest as the wild type from which 

 the Chinese obtained the popular 

 "Crimson Rambler" rose which for 

 centuries before it was brought to this 

 country had been a popular garden 

 plant in China. Rosa Bella, introduced 

 by the Arboretum from Northern 

 China into Western gardens, has never 

 been injured here by cold. It is a tall 

 stout shrub which produces every year 

 in June great numbers of large rose- 

 red flowers followed by showy fruits. A 

 good garden plant for cold countries. 

 Rosa Bella might in the hands of a 

 skilful plant-breeder have a useful in- 

 fluence in a new race of hardy roses. 

 The winter has not injured Rosa Cau- 

 data which promises to be one of the 

 most useful of the Western China 

 roses. It is a Cinnamon Rose and a 

 vigorous growing shrub now more than 

 six feet high, with stout arching stems 

 covered with stout spines, handsome 



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diameter with pure pink petals marked 

 with white at the base. The broad 

 flower-clusters sometimes contain as 

 many as 25 flowers, and as these open 

 gradually the plant remains in bloom 

 during at least a couple of weeks. The 

 value of this rose as a garden plant 

 is increased by the fact that it is one 

 of the few roses in the collection which 



flower in July, and that its large 

 orange red fruit is exceptionally hand- 

 some. Rosa Omeiensis was not hurt 

 during the past winter, but the form 

 of this rose (var. pterocantha) with 

 the items furnished with large, bright 

 red translucent spines lost consider- 

 able wood in the shrub collection. — 

 Arnold Arboretum Bulletin. 



