A Quebec Province Rose Garden 



F. E.^Buck, B.S.A., Experimental Farm, Ottawa 



In this autumn season, one of the 

 sources of satisfaction in growing roses 

 IS that many of the modern varieties 

 have a second, and one might almost say 



of beautiful roses in both the June and 

 September seasons of bloom. 



In regard to the beauty of the autumn 

 bloom, Mr. MacGrady says that he 



Mr. MacGrady in His Garden.— This G 



a General View of the Garden. 



.1 continuous season of bloom. In fact 

 there is a little garden, about a quarter 

 of an acre in extent, not two miles from 

 the Parliament Buildings of the Do- 

 minion, where they blossom in a riot of 

 variety and profusion. 



This garden is at Gatineau Point, a 

 little Quebec village on the river almost 

 opposite the picturesque part of Ottawa 

 known as Rockcliffe. It is the creation 

 and almost constant resort of a Mr. 

 MacGrady. Unpretentious in many 

 ways, being wedged in between small 

 houses and rough boundary fences, it 

 impresses one for that very reason with 

 the potentialities for rose growing exist- 

 ing in a piece of land even in a climate 

 as cold as that of Ottawa. 



It is first of all a rose garden, because 

 this flower, which is responsible for the 

 stirring of more gardening ambitions 

 than any other flower, holds premier 

 place. Roses with Mr. MacGrady are 

 not secondary, his garden was made for 

 them and the soil is ideal. For years 

 he has had good success with all classes 

 of this flower. His system of growing 

 does not differ materially from other sys- 

 tems Neither has he won success by any 

 secret or strange processes of culture. 

 Wise consideration of the needs of the 

 plants and a measure of patient loving 

 care brings him a reward of thousands 



finds "the quality of the flowers produc- 

 ed later in the season, and especially in 

 autumn, far surpasses in size, form and 

 color those that are given in June. 

 These traits are particularly conspicuous 



in the dark crimson varieties, and a 

 Pierre Notting of June looks like a poor 

 relation of the regal and magnificent 

 Pierre Notting of September." 



It might be remarked here by way of 

 parenthesis that the English growers are 

 \ery interested in having good beds of 

 autumn blooming varieties. In the trial 

 experiments with roses at the Ottawa 

 Central Experimental Farm the present 

 indications are that in future lists many 

 of the recommended roses will be those 

 giving a good amount of bloom in the 

 autumn. One reason for this is that 

 sometimes our season in June is so hot 

 that the roses are past all too soon. 



Altogether Mr. MacGrady has about 

 four hundred rose bushes. Many of 

 these are of recent fame, since each year 

 a consignment of the newer introductions 

 is imported from a firm located in the 

 Duchy of Luxembourg, in which are in- 

 cluded those brought out by English, 

 French, German and Irish rose growers. 



SOME GOOD VARIETIES 



The following list of roses was pre- 

 pared by Mr. MacGrady, by request, 

 as being roses which he has found the 

 best of the many varieties which he has 

 cultivated : 



White — Frau Karl Druschki, Merveille 

 de Lyon; white with pink tins — Capt. 

 Christy, Clio; light rose — Pride of Wal- 

 tham, Mde. Gabrielle Luizet, Baroness 

 Rothschild ; bright rose — Eugenie Fremy, 

 Capt. Hayward, Magna Charta ; crim- 

 son — Gustave Piganeau, Mde. Victor 

 Verdier, Eugene Furst ; dark crimson- 



