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sand bushes in about six hundred species and varieties were grow- 
ing. The Rose Arc, a nearby extension of the Rose Garden, was 
constructed in the fall of 1935—a gift from Mrs. Cranford as a 
memorial to her late husband. With the plants in the Rose Arc 
the collection includes more than four thousand roses in over seven 
hundred species and varieties. 
[examples of almost every type of rose capable of surviving in 
our climate are represented in the garden. Some of the varieties 
are rather rare in general cultivation, as, for example, the climbing 
roses Félicité et Perpétue, a derivative of Rosa sempervirens; 
Ruga, one of the Ayrshire roses; and Mermaid, derived from Rosa 
bracteata, an evergreen species native to China and naturalized in 
our southern states. Other interesting varieties include: the first 
of the Pernetiana roses, Soleil d'Or, which was the result of a cross 
by M. Pernet-Ducher between a variety of Rosa foctida and a 
Hybrid Perpetual; the parti-colored Fair Rosamond’s Rose (fosa 
damascena var. versicolor) ; and the Green Rose, Rosa chinensis 
var. wiridiflora, which is unattractive but intriguing. The bulk of 
the plantings is made up of the popular Hybrid Teas, with ade- 
quate representation of the Hybrid Perpetual, Tea, Polyantha, 
Climber, Rambler, Moss, Pemberton, China, and minor groups. 
Originally the varieties in the Tea, Hybrid Tea, Hybrid Per- 
petual, and Polyantha groups were planted in chronological se- 
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quence of their order of introduction with a view to giving a pic- 
ture of rose progress. Practical considerations necessitated the 
partial abandonment of this scheme. Some of the older varieties 
are no longer propagated by the growers. It is, therefore, difficult 
and ofttimes impossible to replace ailing plants of those varieties. 
Now, 1f a variety has to be discarded because of ill-health or lack 
of beauty, we usually substitute one of the newer introductions. 
This helps to keep the garden up-to-date in the matter of varieties. 
Rose ARC 
Leaving the Rose Garden at the south gate, one comes to the 
Rose Are. As its name implies, the area is roughly semi-circular in 
form, bounded on the curved side by a series of 27 arches fur- 
nished with rambler roses. The curved embankment back of the 
arches is covered with the Memorial Rose (Rosa Wichuraiana). 
