2h 
Since the Rose Garden was planned not only to be a place of 
beauty, but also an educationa 
— 
feature, an attempt has been made 
to grow practically every type of rose that is hardy in this climate, 
and to display the types in many different ways. Roses grow wild 
in the Northern Hemisphere and, because cultivated varieties are 
derived from these wild species, it was considered of educational 
value to frame the rose garden with a wide border of wild roses. 
There was no sacrifice of beauty in this procedure, since many of 
the wild forms are of horticultural value because of their abundance 
of blossoms, such as are produced by Rosa setigera, the prairie 
rose; their interesting foliage, such as the wrinkled leaves of the 
R. rugosa; or their attractive fruit, produced by forms like A. 
virguuana, IR. rugosa, and other species. 
The central panel of fifteen beds of roses from the groups 
Noisette, Bourbon, China, tea, hybrid tea, polyantha, and hybrid 
perpetual, the last three groups preponderating, offers a wealth of 
information to persons who wish to learn about roses. The mass 
of blossoms on the climbing roses, so well displayed on enclosing 
fences, pergolas, pavilion and pillars, impresses one upon entering 
the Rose Garden during the season of their bloom. There are 
nearly twenty groups of climbing roses in the garden, totaling 
about eighty varieties. Their flowers are single or double, and 
occur either singly or in clusters. 
Visitors who enjoy flowers of particular historical interest may 
observe a unique group of roses in one of the beds. The group 
includes a species mentioned by Pliny in his Natiural History, the 
cabbage rose, which has been grown in Europe for two thousand 
years, and the damask rose, which is the source of “attar of roses.” 
The most recent additions to the “Gardens within a Garden” 
are the Herb Garden, and the Medicinal Plant Garden, which 
contain about fifty culinary and nearly one hundred medicinal 
plants, attractively arranged around two central symmetrical pat- 
terns of “knots.” T 
—— 
1 
1e knot designs are adaptations from early 
sixteenth century gardens, when growing herbs was a popular 
pastime and their design an important feature. The beauty of 
these knots, where foliage color and texture are carefully combined 
to afford interest, may best be enjoyed from the Overlook above 
the garden. Today, because of their intrinsic value as interesting 
