ROSE 



ROSE 



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Climate is the all-important feature of rose-culture 

 in California, and if that is satisfactory the character 

 of the soil makes little difference. The dry summer air 

 is a serious drawback to the growth of many roses, 

 there being few places where Moss roses thrive, and 

 these must be grown in whole or partial shade. Niphe- 

 tos and Marechal Niel are good examples of roses 

 requiring partial shade if good results are desired. 

 Many localities cannot grow the two last mentioned, 

 or such as Perle des Jardins, Meteor, Catherine 

 Mermet, Madame Francisca Kruger, Reine Marie 

 Henriette, and many others, on account of mildew. 

 Even among varieties whose buds are immune, it is 

 often impossible to get foliage unaffected. Injudicious 

 watering is more largely to blame for these unfavorable 

 conditions than any other agency. Lauretta is a rose 

 which often produces the only perfect flowers to be 

 found among a hundred varieties, and this is particu- 

 larly the case hi places visited by heavy frosts, Laurette 

 remaining unscathed while all others are more or less 

 blasted. The great rose of the eastern United States, 

 American Beauty, is almost a complete failure here 

 and is not worth growing except in a very few well- 

 favored gardens, and even then it is far from being 

 perfect. 



Persons in the southern end of the state and inland 

 sections have yet to learn that fine roses may be grown 

 in summer either in light or heavy shade. 



Many roses, also, are of little value in California 

 unless budded or grafted. Of this class Marechal Niel 

 is the most striking example. Examples may be found 

 where this rose has thrived unusually on its own roots, 

 but such cases are marked exceptions. Some persons 

 maintain that all roses are best on their own roots, but 

 such opinions are easily refuted by consulting any of our 

 veteran rosarians. The best roses are root-grafted, but 

 of course this procedure is too expensive for the general 

 nurseryman, and the bulk of the local stock is budded 

 on Manetti or Maiden's Blush, though the Dog rose 

 (Rosa canina) and even the Banksia are often used. 

 Those roses grown on their own roots are usually propa- 

 gated from hardwood cuttings, grown out-of-doors, and 

 December is usually the best month, although they 

 have been successfully rooted from October to March, 

 according to the variety. 



Rust bothers but little; likewise scale, although in 

 many neglected gardens the bush and climbers alike 

 may be found covered with both the rose-scale and the 

 red scale of the orange. Fuller's rose-beetle is a nuisance 

 only in small areas, but green-aphis is a pest in winter 

 and spring. La France for many years was the leading 

 rose in California and grew well, budded or on its own 

 roots, in almost any locality, but is now rapidly becom- 

 ing a thing of the past, though it can never be wholly 

 discarded, for it is still, in a few gardens, the queen of 

 the family; its involuntary retirement from our rose- 

 gardens is due entirely to a "die back" (anthracnose), 

 which affects many other plants than the rose, but 

 seems to have a special Liking for La France. Thus far 

 no cure has been found. 



(1) A list of the best dozen bush roses and the best half- 

 dozen climbing sorts, as agreed upon by many experts 

 within a range of 20 miles of Los Angeles, is as follows: 



Bush roses. Frau Karl Druschki, Kaiserin Augusta 

 Victoria, Madame Abel Chatenay, Heinrich Munch 

 (Pink Druschki), The Lyon, William Shean, Magna 

 Charta, Ulrich Brunner, Edward Mawley, General 

 MacArthur, Lady Hillingdon, Duchess of Wellington. 



Climbing sorts. ^Climbing Kaiserin Augusta Vic- 

 toria, Lamarque, Climbing Souv. of Wootton, Francois 

 Crousse, Duchesse de Auerstadt, Reve d'Or. Outside 

 this list are members of widely divergent classes which 

 should find a place in every large garden, such as the 

 Banksias, the three Cherokees, and both the bush and 

 the climbing Cecile Brunner. 



(2) Following are lists of a dozen varieties each of the 



different recognized standards of color of roses which 

 have proved best adapted to southern California 

 conditions: 



White: White La France, Frau Karl Druschki, Ivory, 

 Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, Mabel Morrison, Molly 

 Sharman-Crawford, Niphetos, Perle von Godesburg, 

 The Bride, The Queen, White Killarney, Maman 

 Cochet. Pink: Belle Siebrecht, Betty, Clara Watson, 

 Killarney, Madame Abel Chatenay, Madame Leon 

 Pain, Mile. Cecile Brunner, Paul Xeyron, Maman 

 Cochet, Souv. du President Carnot, The Lyon, William 

 Shean. Red: Agrippina, American Beauty, Edward 

 Mawley, General Jacqueminot, General MacArthur, 

 Hugh Dickson, J. B. Clark, Jonkheer J. L. Mock, 



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Lady Battersea, Magna Charta, Papa Gontier, Ulrich 

 Brunner. Yellow: Duchess of Wellington, Franz Dee- 

 gen, George C. Waud, Harry Kirk, Lady Hillingdon, 

 Marie Van Houtte, Mrs. Aaron Ward, Mrs. A. R. 

 Waddell, Perle des Jardins, Rayon d'Or, Soleil d'Or, 

 Sunburst. 



Climbing roses. White: Devoniensis, Kaiserin 

 Augusta Victoria, White Mamam Cochet, Madame 

 Alfred Carriere, White Banksia, White Cherokee. Pink: 

 Belle Siebrecht, Cecile Brunner, Caroline Testout, 

 Dorothy Perkins, Gainsborough, Pink Cherokee, Taus- 

 endschon. Red: Papa Gontier, Souvenir of Wootton, 

 Crimson Rambler, Francois Crousse, Red Cherokee 

 (Ramona), Reine Marie Henriette, Reine Olga de 

 Wurtemburg. Yellow: Beauty of Glazenwood, Celine 

 Forestier, Duchesse de Auerstadt, Marechal Xiel, Reve 

 d'Or, William Allen Richardson, Yellow Banksia. Sunset 

 and Copper: Mrs. A. R. Waddell, Lady Hillingdon, 

 Duchess of Wellington, Juliet, Sunburst, Mme. Edouard 

 Herriot, Los Angeles. 



(3) Following are roses suitable to California as a 

 whole (John Gill): General MacArthur, Madame 

 Caroline Testout, Lady Hillingdon, Juliet, George 

 Dickson, Mrs. Aaron Ward, Radiance, Mad. Abel 

 Chatenay, Miss Kate Moulton, Ulrich Brunner, 

 Ophelia, Mile. Cecil Brunner, Frau Karl Druschki, 



