APBIL 0, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Rose Tausendschon* 



HARDY OUTDOOR ROSES. 



[Synopsis of a paper by David McFarlane, of 

 Tarrytown, N. T., read before the Tarrytown 

 Horticultural Society.] 



"Hardy Outdoor Roses," the theme 

 you have assigned to me, interests to some 

 extent most men in the profession and 

 I am safe to say more of the flower- 

 loving public than any other flower under 

 cultivation, but the so-called hardy out- 

 door roses, with few exceptions, possess 

 extremely poor qualities for the embel- 

 lishment of the landscape from an artistic 

 point of view; consequently, we culti- 

 vate the majority because of their ex- 

 cellence for house decoration as a cut 

 flower, and their unique colors, fragrance, 

 purity and individuality. So many are 



the varieties of roses now in commerce 

 that to make a selection is no easy task, 

 and as the most have been hybridized in 

 France,. Germany and Great Britain, 

 many that carry the highest honors in 

 the lands of their birth are a sad dis- 

 appointment when grown under our more 

 extreme climate. But if a collection of 

 well selected varieties were once estab- 

 lished on a place, the chances are that 

 not one of them would ever be discard- 

 ed ; for we might say especially of hy- 

 brid perpetual roses that the color and 

 form of one variety is so near in resem- 

 blance to another, and yet different, that 

 we decide to keep both because each pos 

 sesses a characteristic individuality. 

 The grandest of all rose blooms arc 



found in the class generally designated 

 as hybrid perpetuals; but the word per- 

 petual applied to the blooming of these 

 roses, I regret to say, is much in error, 

 at least in our climate. While a bloom 

 or so may be found later in the season, 

 we have to console ourselves with the 

 fact that the flowering season for these 

 roses is during three weeks in June. If 

 this fact alone were judiciously taken 

 into consideration it would eliminate 

 many a rose garden from a too promi- 

 nent position in the landscape, and at 

 the same time, detract nothing from 

 the general interest displayed in roses. 



Place and Time to Plant 



The best place for a rose garden is 



