CHAPTER XI 



SELECTIONS FOR SPECIAL SECTIONS 



"The fields in blossom flamed and flushed." 



— Gerald Massey 



THOSE of our readers who live in the more thickly settled 

 sections of our country will recognize, in the following, 

 our dependence upon the modern scientific method of 

 learning the "best roses" for certain locahties, i.e., the method 

 of actually testing them. We have had the good fortune to visit 

 personally and to know the rose experts in many sections, and 

 they severally have been so kind as to give us the benefit of 

 their valuable experience, each in the form of a list of roses 

 they have found to thrive. (See also pages 30 to 52, inclusive.) 



Roses for North America 



The greatest collection of hardy trees and shrubs to be found 

 in this hemisphere is, without doubt, the Arnold Arboretum, at 

 Jamaica Plain, Boston. It is a part of the Park System of Boston 

 and is connected with Harvard University. 



Aside from the extensive library and herbarium, there is in 

 this 250-acre park, an outdoor museum of hving specimens, 

 founded and carried on to increase the student's knowledge of 

 trees and shrubs. For fifty years past the masterful director of 

 this permanently founded enterprise has been Charles S. Sar- 

 gent, an outstanding figure in American horticulture. 



Together with his assistant director, E. FI. Wilson, the famous 

 plant collector, oftener known as "Chinese" Wilson, Prof. Sargent 

 has assembled at the Arboretum a fascinating collection of 

 rose species, and especially those indigenous to the North Tem- 

 perate Zone. 



Professor Sargent has very kindly contributed the following 

 suggestions as representing the most attractive of the rose 

 species for North American use: 



Rosa alba Rosa rugosa (the pink- Rosa spJnosissIma fulgens 



Ecae ^ flowered form) virginiana 



Hugonis setigera ^ Wichurafana 

 spinosfssima altafca 



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