THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



Fleet of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, have 

 been of real advantage. 



I want to take my hearers across the continent in a quick Rose 

 journey, peeping into American gardens from coast to coast. I 

 show you Roses as they grow outdoors in New Hampshire and 

 Massachusetts ; in Connecticut where they were first made avail- 

 able in a notable municipal Rose-garden ; on Long Island, where 

 Rosa rugosa shows its power to flourish beautifully in the sands 

 of the sea; in the old Van Cortlandt Manor garden, where the 

 Roses are at least a hundred years old ; in Philadelphia, in Harris- 

 burg, in Washington, and on south, seeing now the Roses not hardy 

 north, in Magnolia and Thomasville, with a quick side journey to 

 Indianapolis and Kansas City, a delightful diversion to Detroit, 

 and then a jump to the coast, where up and down California, 

 Washington and Oregon the Rose is indeed queen. In Portland, 

 Oregon, we see the reason for that city being "the City of Roses." 



It seems worth while to consider the wild Roses that are avail- 

 able to us, whether they come from the United States or elsewhere. 

 I am glad to introduce to you, therefore, Rosa setigera, R. lucida, 

 R. multiflora, R. spinosisshna, and four of the splendid new Chi- 

 nese introductions brought in by E. H. Wilson ; namely, R. multi- 

 hracteata, R. setipoda, R. Moyesii and R. Hugonis. These Roses 

 lovely in themselves, will aid in making the larger American gar- 

 dens more beautiful. 



It seems desirable that you should know something of the work 

 that American hybridizers have done. Jackson Dawson, the great 

 gardener long gone to his rest, who made the Arnold Arboretum 

 blossom, has produced a number of splendid Roses. Alexander 

 Montgomery, Jr. is responsible for Hadley, Mrs. C. H. Russell and 

 Pilgrim, and I have mentioned M. H. Walsh, whose Excelsa, 

 Evangeline, Paradise, and Milky Way are of great loveliness and 

 value as hardy climbers. 



James A. Farrell, under the inspiration of that fine old botanist, 

 Josiah Hoopes, produced Climbing American Beauty, Christine 

 Wright, and Purity. We owe Radiance, undoubtedly the most 

 satisfactory American-bred hybrid tea, to John Cook, of Balti- 

 more, who has done other good things, particularly in his produc- 

 tion of Francis Scott Key. 



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