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Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, N. Y. Hardy Roses 



Rose bugs are circumvented by the Rosa rugosa, Blanc Double de Coubert, and other varieties which bloom 

 before and after their season. This variety has large milk-white flowers and foliage as perfect as Privet 



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Magna Charta. Pink, suffused with carmine. The 

 flowers are large and fragrant, borne on strong, 

 light green stems. 



Margaret Dickson. White. This Rose resembles 

 Baroness Rothschild in its form and the close 

 setting of leaves about the flowers. The large 

 white blossoms with pale flesh center are very 

 beautiful. Fragrant. 



Paul Neyron. Rose-pink. The largest of the 

 Roses. The stems are strong and smooth, and 

 the foliage is a bright, light green . A free bloomer. 



Princess Adelaide. Moss Rose. Delicate rose- 

 color. The buds are well covered with moss, and 

 the foliage is dark. 



Persian Yellow. A thorny bush with delicate 

 foliage, bearing a profusion of small bright 

 yellow Roses clustered thickly along the branches. 

 A favorite in old-time gardens. Very hardy. 



Frau Karl Druschki. The ideal pure white Rose. 

 Very large perfect flowers. A strong grower and 

 very free-flowering. 



Rosa Rugosa Japanese Rose 



Roses are usually thought of as of value for their 

 flowers only, their foliage being of doubtful hardi- 

 ness, and, if unsightly in midsummer, the plants 

 are excusable and repay us by their beautiful 

 flowers. The Rosa rugosa, R. Wichuraiana and R. 

 multiflora, all from eastern Asia, bid fair to change 

 all this. They are perfectly healthy in foliage and 

 are handsome all through the summer and need 

 no protection to prevent killing back in the winter. 



Rapid strides are being made by plant breeders 

 in this country and Europe in introducing new 

 varieties with improvements in colors, size and 

 doubling of the flowers. Only a beginning has been 

 made during the last fifteen years in this direction. 

 With proper encouragement by amateurs, much 

 more rapid improvement is possible. 



The form of the Rosa rugosa bush is broad and 

 rounded, 4 to 6 feet high and equally broad. It is 



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solid and dense from the ground up. The foliage is 

 dark green, shiny, and the leaves are rugose or ridged 

 between the veins. 



The rose-bugs are more frequently asked about 

 than any other insect pest. Hand-picking is the 

 most practical remedy, but as it breeds in damp, 

 sandy ground, and Long Island has an abundance 

 of such ground, the rose-bugs some years are a 

 vexatious pest. The Rosa rugosa and its varieties 

 offer a positive way to circumvent the enemy. They 

 bloom May 15 and the rose-bugs come about 

 June I or a little later, and remain one month. 



The Rosa rugosa and its varieties, the Prairie 

 Rose and Rosa Wichuraiana, bloom in July after 

 the rose-bugs have disappeared. The Rugosa also 

 blooms during August and September. A good 

 way to increase the amount of this midsummer 

 blooming is to cut back the plants nearly to the 

 ground or one-half way in the winter, or some can 

 be cut back in June. This cutting back is beneficial, 

 at least once in two or three years, to make the 

 plants more compact. The red fruits are like little 

 apples, about i inch in diameter, and are very showy 

 being in large clusters. The thin pulp is edible. 



For seaside planting, the Rugosa is one of the 

 very best plants and offers an answer to the fre- 

 quent question, "What can we plant besides 

 Privet?" On road banks, in wild gardens, as hedges 

 and borders, around flower-gardens and in almost 

 any group of shrubs, the Rosa rugosa and its varie- 

 ties are highly satisfactory. 



Rosa rugosa rubra. Single red flowers about 4 

 inches across. 



R. rugosa alba. Single, pure white flowers. 



Blanc Double de Coubert. We think so highly of 

 this variety that we have propagated it by the 

 slow process of layering plants. These plants are 

 now four years old and are well branched and 

 bushy. It takes a few years for a good thing to 

 become known by the horticultural public, and 

 Roses of the Rugosa class have not been actively 

 pushed because they are slower to propagate or 



