Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, !7\. Y. Hardy 'Roses 



79 



Rosa rugosa, Blanc Double de Coubert, continued 



cannot be as cheaply imported as the ordinary 

 Hybrid Perpetual and Tea Roses. The flowers 

 are 6 inches in diameter when they appear in 

 early May, and those in midsummer are only 

 slightly smaller. They are beautiful as cut- 

 flowers and, when to this beauty is added their 

 earliness, and the fact that there are no rose-bugs 

 crawling down them over the table, we have 

 sufficient arguments for their extensive planting. 



Belle Poitevine. Both this and the last have the 

 pure Rugosa foliage that is perfectly healthy. The 

 flowers are double, red, of the same shade as 

 the species. We have propagated them by layers 

 and the plants are large and bushy, suitable for 

 immediate effects. They can be used for planting 

 on sand-dunes, overhanging a sea wall, as garden 

 hedges, or in the shrubbery. It is rare that such 

 good value is offered in Roses or shrubs, and our 

 large stock is due to an enthusiasm to popularize 

 a little-known class of Roses and to encourage 

 plant-breeding in varieties that are well adapted 

 to the climate. 



Madame Georges Bruant. This is a hybrid 

 Rugosa and the foliage shows its other parentage 

 by becoming mildewed. 



Memorial Rose RosaWichuraiana 



TRAILING ROSE FROM JAPAN 



The answer to "What's in a name?" is shown by 

 this Rose. It was on the market under its long, 

 unwieldly Latin name, and, except for a few Boston 

 enthusiasts, found no market. Then Henderson 

 christened it Memorial Rose and advertised it 

 widely in the magazines with a picture of it as a 

 grave covering. This Barnum-like advertising got 

 people to know it and its use as a grave cover 

 is well-nigh forgotten. It runs over the ground, 

 making a solid mat about 8 inches deep, of shiny 

 dark green leaves. It will often grow 15 feet in a 

 year and only needs to be started up by tying to 

 make an excellent climbing Rose. 



People of this section have a slight realization of 

 the landscape use of cover plants. This species 

 has all the elements required, even that of propa- 

 gating without expense on a private estate when 

 once established; that is, a few plants can be set, 

 and as they take root wherever they touch the 

 ground, they can be divided up and the area ex- 

 tended. They also grow readily from cuttings. 



On Long Island Sound there are many bare 

 bluffs of running sand which may be wasting away 

 at the rate of i foot per year. A sea wall will hold 

 the base. This Rose, with Pitch Pine, Cedar, 

 Bayberry, Honeysuckle, and a number of other 

 plants, will efficiently hold the sliding soil and pre- 

 vent the top from falling down to a less steep angle. 

 Another use is to carpet the ground under tall 

 shrubs, such as Lilacs. 



Greater improvement by hybridization has been 

 made with this species than with any other in this 

 country. One of the first improvements was made 

 by that most eminent horticulturist, Jackson 

 Dawson, of the Arnold Arboretum, who produced 

 the Dawson, Farquhar, and several others yet to 

 be introduced. Other hybrids were made by the 

 Newport Nursery Co., and by Mr. Walsh, Woods 

 Hole, Mass., and others. It hybridizes freely with 

 the Tea Roses. The beauty of the creamy white 

 flowers is enhanced by the cluster of golden stamens. 



This species and its varieties bloom after the 

 rose-bugs have commenced to disappear, about the 



Memorial Rose, continued 



first of July. They greatly extend the season of 

 Roses, for the Hybrid Perpetual Roses are at their 

 height in June. This species continues to bloom 

 throughout the summer and we have seen it a beau- 

 tiful carpet of white just beyond the surf at Nahant, 

 in August. 



A recent book on "Roses, and How to Grow 

 Them," published by Doubleday, Page & Co., says 

 that the Wichuraiana Hybrids are a new group of 

 immense importance to American gardens, yielding 

 the best climbing Roses for porch or trellis. 

 Rosa Wichuraiana. Single, cream- white flowers. 

 Lady Gay. This has large clusters of pink flowers 

 of the color of the Hermosa Rose. We know of 

 no climbing Roses that have sprung into such 

 popular favor as this and the Dorothy Perkins, 

 since the advent of the now ubiquitous Crimson 

 Rambler. People are getting tired of the latter, 

 and the above new varieties are so much more 

 delicate in color that no one can criticize them. 

 Their foliage is free from the mildew which 

 attacks the Crimson Rambler. 

 Jersey Beauty. Large, single, pale yellow flowers. 

 Gardenia. This is a surprise to those who remem- 

 ber the climbing Tea Roses, with the big yellow 

 blossoms, which hung from the rafters of old- 

 time greenhouses, and who never expected to see 

 such Roses out-of-doors. It is not quite hardy 

 and needs to be laid down and protected, unless 

 on a south sloping terrace bank where the wood 

 ripens up early. 



Pink Roamcr. Bright pink, single flowers. 

 Universal Favorite. Rose-colored, double flow- 

 ers, about 2 inches in diameter. 

 Dorothy Perkins. The most beautiful of the hardy 

 climbing Roses. A Dorothy Perkins will quickly 

 cover a gateway or pergola with rich glossy 



Memorial _Rose, or Rosa Wichuraiana. A beautiful trail- 

 ing species with tea-scented cream-white flowers. It is one 

 of the healthiest foliaged Roses and highly useful as a climb- 

 ing Rose, as a cover plant for steep banks and for seaside 

 planting. Its ability to hold sleep sand banks and cover 

 walls is exhibited along the public road on the property of 

 Mr. Robert W. de Forest, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. 



