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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



December, 191(3 



known to be hardy. They give an abund- 

 ance of bloom at the end of June .ir^d tlie 

 beginning of July and about half of them 

 bloom again in September. 



If asked to suggest the best dozen 

 suitable for gardens, perhaps Frau Karl 

 Druschki and Margaret Dickson for 

 whites ; Mrs. John I.ang, Mrs. Sharman 

 Crawford, Mrs. Cocker for light pinks , 

 Alfred Colomb and Magna Charta for 

 dark pinks; Captain Hayward, Ulrich 

 Brunner and General Jacqueminot for 

 light reds; Prince Camille de Rohan and 

 Victor Hugo for dark reds, would be a 

 fair selection. 



HYBRID TEAS 



These roses are a cross between the 

 tender ever-blooming and the hardy Hy- 

 brid Remontant and other roses. They 

 were first introduced in 1868 with that 

 favorite La France, still one ot the 

 sweetest roses grown. They are prac- 

 tically continuously in bloom throughout 

 the summer and they will stand our On- 

 tario climate, as I have grown them for 

 three or four years with few losses. Last 

 year I only lost two per cent, of my 

 stock and each plant lost was a ufak- 

 ling to start with. 



The blooms are more delicate and re- 

 fined in form, many of them having the 

 high pointed centre, as distinjju'shed 

 from the cabbage effect of most ot ti.e 

 Remontants. The colors range from the 

 most delicate shades of peach, pinK, soft 

 yellow, to the deepest reds, oranges, and 

 so forth. Most of this class have the 

 sweet subtile fragrance of the tea roses. 

 I look to this class of rose to be the rose 

 of the future for Ontario, and I would like 

 to see our Canadian nurserymen grow 

 many of the new varieties of this class 

 so that we could get Canadian grown 

 stock in Toronto as well as in Britain or 

 on the Continent. Most growers in Brit- 

 ain and the Continent now Catalogue 

 from two to five times as many Hybrid 

 Teas as Hybrid Remontants. If you 

 cannot get the varieties you want locally 

 Alex. Dickson & Son, Newtovvnards, Ire- 

 land, are reliable people to purchase 

 from. 



THE BEST HYBRID TEAS 



If asked to select the best twelve roses 

 of this everblooming class, I would be 

 at a loss just which to choose, because 

 like a bevy of beautiful women, each has 

 a special charm of her own, and like the 

 gentler sex they possess as many moods 

 and charms as there are hours in the day, 

 and who is the man who can say that 

 Caroline Testout is more handsome than 

 Hon. Ina Bingham or Mrs. Peter Blair, 

 and did he judge them in the early morn- 

 ing with the dew glistening on them, or 

 when the sun was high in the heavens, 

 or during that witching hour when the 

 sun was just going down, when many 

 things in our gardens look their best. 



I have gone into the rose garden in 

 the early morning when the dew was on 



Portion of a Rbtibc in Rear of tbe Reiideice of Mr. G. A. Olire, Brantiord, Ont. , in procett of Rcclmitioa. No. 1 



each petal, leal and tree ; when the 

 rising sun had awakened the birds to 

 singing their lusty jubilant songs in June, 

 and what a glorious sight meets the eye ! 

 A thousand blooms of roses of every color 

 in the rainbow besides many that the 

 rainbow does not possess, indescribable 

 in their beauty, with a fragrance which 

 baffles description. 



Is there any sight on this round earth 

 more beautiful, more joyful and more up- 

 lifting when it meets the eye, than a rose 

 garden on such a morning. I have walk- 

 ed down the paths carefully noting each 

 of the seven hundred bushes, picking the 

 choicest bloom here and there and com- 

 paring them one with the other, and I 

 have declared that Betty is the sweetest, 

 daintiest thing that ever grew and have 

 wondered how I could have thought yes- 

 terday that Mildred Grant surpassed her. 



Entering the garden at high noon 

 Betty's complexion does not look so 

 ruddy. Mildred Grant has a dozen freck- 

 les on her glorious face of yestermorn, 

 while Hon. Ina Bingham, a blushing 

 beauty deeply veined on her thick velvety 

 pink petals is the beauty of the hour. At 

 evening a walk along the same paths will 

 show Helen Keller or Susanne Marie 

 Rodocanachi or some other charmer 

 which surpasses the Hon. Ina Bingham. 



This is, I think, one of the principal 

 charms of a rose garden ; you can walk 

 through it morning, noon and evening, 

 month after month, and never see it just 

 as it looked on any other day, so you can 

 see how hard it is for a man who loves 

 them all to specify the best twelve. I can 

 however say that .Antoine Revoire, Caro- 

 line Testout, Dean Hole, Grand Due A le 

 Luxembourg, Gruss an Teplitz, La 

 France, Madame Ravary, Marie Able 

 Chatenay, Etoile de France, Vicountess 

 Folkestone, Thursa and Killarney, will 

 give splendid results in your garden. 



CLIMBING E0SE8 



Climbing roses are as easily grown as 

 tomatoes, potatoes or cauliflower. This 

 is the class of roses which everyone should 

 grow wherever there is a bare piece of 



fence, a stone pile, an old stump, a dead 

 tree, a pergola, a veranda, the sioe oi a 

 house, a sloping bank or an ovei Hang- 

 ing wall that would look better covered 

 with their rich shining green leaves, and 

 during their flowering season with their 

 masses of gorgeous flowers. 



When you consider that for twenty-five 

 cents one can get a good hardy climbing 

 rose that our winters cannot kill, that 

 will bloom the first year, and in three 

 vears will cover a wall or fence ten feet 

 high and fifteen feet long, one wonders 

 why there are so many bare and unsight- 

 ly spots even on the premises of members 

 of the horticultural societies, and all over 

 Ontario. 



Cannot each of you picture in your 

 mind right now such a spot in your gar- 

 den? Unless I am mistaken, we all can. 

 Let me now suggest that the best work 

 you can do for your horticultural society 

 is to cover that spot with a climbing rose 

 of any of the following varieties and the 

 next year you can give half a dozen cut- 

 tings to half a dozen neighbors and they 

 will emulate your example, because these 

 ■climbing roses are grown on their own 

 roots and the cuttings root readily in 

 sandy soil. I have cuttings stuck in the 

 ground SeptemSer 22nd, 1909, which I 

 dug up October, 1910, and which had 

 three shoots six feet long, and they never 

 got any attention during the year except 

 a watering once in a while. 



.As there are only a couple of hundred 

 different climbing roses in commerce, it 

 is easier to choose a good twelve than 

 among the hybrid teas. I would place 

 Tausendchon at the head of the list, then 

 Crimson Rambler or F'lower of Fairfield 

 which is colored like Crimson Rambler 

 but it blooms on new wood, and flowers 

 two or three times during the season ; 

 then Dorothy Perkins or Lady Gay which 

 is a deeper pink and more fragrant; then 

 Debutante which to me has the sweetest 

 fragrance of any of the climbers I have 

 grown. Reine Olga de Wurtenuurj,, a 

 H. T. Climber, a brilliant .scarlet with 

 flowers of the size and shape of Tausend- 



