ROSE DEVELOPMENT FROM 1917 TO 1920 



perfume and stem, and an average of fifty blooms*; it holds its foliage 

 well and blooms until stopped by frost. 



The yellow section has fortunately produced some fine new 

 varieties. Los Angeles, already spoken of under " New Intro- 

 ductions" has made a fine record. It is a flame pink, shaded coral 

 with gold at the base — a new color; averages here in its second 

 year twenty-five blooms; but has the fault of losing its fohage early; 

 it needs careful winter protection, especially north of Philadelphia. 

 Mrs. Dunlop Best is an attractive orange yellow in bud; 

 lighter when opening; it has thirty-six petals and will average 

 thirty-five blooms in its second year; a good cutting rose, with fine 

 lasting quahties and good, bushy habit; must be placed with the 

 best of the Yellows. 



Golden Emblem is a Pemetiana of dark yellow to orange; only a 

 fair grower, with the fault so general to its class, of losing its foliage 

 early; averages twenty-one blooms. 



Johanna Bridge displaces Chrissie MacKellar as the best yellow 

 decorative. This rose is hardy and a fine, tall grower of good habit 

 and profuse blooming quahties; it is a single; copper pink in bud, 

 turning fighter when open; it averages one hundred blooms. 



In the new tj^jes of more or less ever -blooming, hardy, climbing 

 pillar roses, the following are the best as noted: other roses of this 

 class have failed utterly; the first iowr were bred by Rev. J. H. Pem- 

 berton of England, who has done so much for the rose world, and 

 who may well be proud of the record his productions have made 

 in America. 



Moonlight.— Fairly hardy; should have winter protection; 

 growth, six feet and over; small, double, white, in clusters; blooms 

 on old and new wood; gives scattering second crop in July; durmg 

 August and later only a very occasional bloom. 



DANiE.— A stronger and hardier grower than Moonhght; small 

 double, fight yellow, in clusters; fades to cream white; blooms on 

 old and new wood; height from six to ten feet; furnishing a second 

 crop. Later, hke Moonhght, it only gives a few, scattered blooms. 

 C^REs.— Gro^\ih, eight feet; a nice first bloom, followed in the 

 nruddle and last of July by a good second crop; color is blush with 

 yellow shading; of good size; semi-double; blooms singly; scattered 

 flowers in August and none later; needs protection. 



VVinter Cheer.— Growth, six feet; blooms a second time on old 

 wood and at extremities of new canes of three to four feet; blooms in 

 clusters and is semi-double; dark red; practically no bloom after 

 July; needs protection. 



Clytemnestra.— Must also be noted among the balance of the 

 so-called ever-bloommg hardy climbers. Its color is orange pink 

 turmng to cream, six-teen petals; it blooms on old and new wood; 

 height, five to six feet; not as bushy as Dana;; blooms until October, 

 good dark green waxy foliage; flowers in sprays and singly. 



* May be secured from Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J. 

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