THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



food at midsummer. Small wonder then that Ulrich Brunner, with its 

 screaming purplish cherry color, has been superceded by Killarney and 

 Souvenir du President Carnot. 



We must now return to our types of bush roses if we ever expect to get 

 into the rose garden. The cinnamon rose is the same today in our New 

 England cottage gardens as it was in Redoute's time a hundred years ago. 

 Another type rose is Rosa multiflora of Redoute's day, and today one of 

 the parents of most of our climbing roses. This crossed with Rosa 

 Wichuraiana has provided us with American Pillar, Jersey Beauty, Gar- 

 denia, and the whole class of such roses of the last twenty years. The last 

 type rose of which I shall speak is Rosa lutea, a parent of the Austrian 

 briar and Harrison's Yellow, and by crossing it with the sweet briar there 

 has been produced the hybrid briar type of Lord Penzance, some of them 

 so charmingly named after the best known of Scott's heroines — Amy 

 Robsart, Anne of Gierstein. 



Now as we are actually approaching the subject of rose gardens, by 

 "devious paths and wily bounds," perhaps you will forgive me if just for 

 a few moments, we speak of the planting and pruning of roses. There is 

 no black-magic connected with growing roses; they are hardy and patient, 

 but there is no use trying to grow good roses unless they are given good 

 beds in which to grow. The beds must be two and a half feet deep, or 

 deeper, if possible, and should not be placed where the roots of trees or 

 shrubs may take the nourishment away from the rose bushes. The beds 

 should be well-drained, if the ground is really damp, and the successive 

 layers of old sods, with the roots upward, and cow manure mixed with 

 heavy but not clayey loam, make the best mixture for good root action. 

 If possible, it is well to dig and prepare the beds the autumn before the 

 garden is to be planted, so that the soil may settle and be ready for early 

 spring planting. 



When the plants arrive, let us see that the roots are trimmed so that no 

 jagged stumps are left, and let us plant them fairly deep in the ground, so 

 that the junction of the stock and the graft shall always be one and a half 

 or two inches below the surface of the ground. The proper shortening of 

 the upper branches is also suggested. And here let me say that the usual 

 stock for this neighborhood is Manetti which in many places seems to be 

 more resistant to our climate than the briar stock used so much abroad, 

 although one of our greatest rosarians in this district, Admiral Ward, says 

 he finds the seedling briar is the best stock for hybrid teas. 



Now that we have studied the different sorts of roses, their planting, 

 pruning and growing, let us consider what was, at any rate at the beginning 

 of the war, the best rose garden in the world. M. Jules Gravereaux, the 

 former administrator of the great Bon Marche shop, bought in 1892 the 

 Chateau of I'Hay less than ten miles from Paris. He was fortunate in 

 having M. Edouard Andre, the best French landscape architect, design his 

 garden. It has become so well known to Parisians, as well as rosarians all 



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