SPECIAL-PURPOSE VARIETIES 



Rose Hedges 



These boundary markers are certainly coming to be more 

 and more popular as people learn of the splendid quahties of the 

 Rugosas, Sweetbriars, or Spinosissima altaica for this purpose. 

 They are not neat, compact, and uniform in growth as is a 

 hedge of Cahfornia privet, but the thick, bushy mass of glossy, 

 crinkled fohage, especially of the Rugosa, gives a particularly 

 fine appearance. Among the best for this purpose are F. J. 

 Grootendorst, Conrad F. Meyer, and Sir Thomas Lipton. 

 They are perfectly hardy in the coldest winters and are ex- 

 tremely valuable because the fohage is not hkely to be troubled 

 with either insects or disease. 



In warmer countries, or even in our own latitude, a single 

 row of a free-flowering, erect, bushy rose is sure to be pretty 

 and very satisfactory where one wishes simply to mark a boun- 

 dary, as, for example, between the vegetable- and flower-garden. 

 For this purpose, Gruss an Aachen, Greta Kluis, Marie Pavic, 

 Mrs. W. H. Cutbush, Triomphe Orleanais, or Yvonne Rabier 

 are all good. <'See other Polyanthas on page 170.) 



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