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and its value in hybridizing were not appreciated until some 

 forty years afterward, when Mr. Robert C. S. Carmen, of 

 New Jersey, and M. Georges Bruant of Poitiers, France, gave 

 us the hybrids, Agnes Emily Carmen, and Mme. Georges 

 Bruant. While the former was produced first, thus giving 

 the honor of producing the first Rugosa hybrid to an Ameri- 

 can, it was delayed in its propagation, and the French rose 

 was the first on the market. In all of Mr. Carmen's experi- 

 ments the Rugosa rose was the mother plant, and it is a 

 singular fact that the Agnes Emily Carmen rose, bearing 

 flowers having the color and scent of the General Jacque- 

 minot rose, should have Harison's Yellow as the male 

 parent. The success of these hybridizers caused others to 

 enter the field, and we now have a host of good forms, all 

 hardy and reliable. Where these hybrids possess some Tea 

 blood, unusually cold winters may kill them back somewhat. 

 The handsome Rugosa hybrid, Conrad F. Meyer, is some- 

 times "cut back" in winter. This type and its hybrids are 

 splendidly adapted for forming entire hedges or large groups, 

 and may be depended upon for flower and foliage. 



The well-known dwarf rose, Hermosa, and the writer made 

 their first appearance before the public at about the same 

 time, and the former has graced our gardens for seventy-five 

 years. It is reliable and hardy with but little protection, and 

 is one of the best bedders today. The same may be said of 

 the Clothilde Soupert, one of the largest-flowered forms of 

 the Polyantha class, introduced in 1884. In 1880, Veuve 

 Ducher introduced the charming dwarf Polyantha, Mile. 

 Cecile Brunner, the queen of the so-called Fairy rose class, 

 hardy with slight protection, and admirable for corsage bou- 

 quets. Its miniature buds, so delightfully tinted, are ad- 

 mired by all, especially by the gentler sex. 



Who has not admired the Cherokee rose of the southern 

 states, an escaped exotic, being the Chinese Rosa sinica, 

 that has taken so kindly to the conditions offered as to 

 thrive there on the waysides and fence corners? We of the 

 North can have its counterpart, all except its evergreen 

 foliage, in the extremely hardy Rosa spinosissima var. Altaica, 



