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Perkins, shown in figure 83. It has been chosen for planting in all 

 of the parks of Milwaukee. This rose was one plant from about 

 twenty-five seedlings produced by crossing R. Wichuraiana with 

 pollen from Mme. Luizet raised by Alvin Miller in the Jackson & 

 Perkins nurseries, Newark, New York. The rose was named for the 

 daughter of George C. Perkins, president of the company. R. Wi- 

 churaiana, the maternal parent, is a trailing plant with dark green, 

 glossy, half evergreen foliage. The beautiful, fragrant, pure white 

 flowers with a mass of golden stamens are borne in great profusion. 

 Mme. Gabriel Luizet, the paternal parent, is a hybrid perpetual and 

 was originated by Liabaud in 1877. The flowers are a light silvery 

 pink, shading paler at the edges of the petals and moderately fragrant. 



The result of this crossing is a plant with glossy, bright green foli- 

 age. The cherry pink, slightly fragrant flowers are borne in great 

 profusion and last for a long time. The flowers are double and the 

 petals are wrinkled. This rose has given rise to a sport — White 

 Dorothy, the white flowers of which show a semi-reversion to the 

 maternal parent R. Wichuraiana. The Dorothy Perkins rose has been 

 planted throughout the United States and Canada. It thrives on 

 the coast of Norway well up toward the Arctic Circle. It is a favorite 

 in Australia and New Zealand. Travelers have found it planted in 

 unfrequented places in Persia, China and northern India. The 

 National Rose Society of Great Britain awarded the Nickerson cup 

 to the Jackson and Perkins Company in 1908, "as the raisers of the 

 best pink climbing rose blooming in clusters, ' Dorothy Perkins.' " 

 When you meet Dorothy Perkins you can feel perfectly acquainted 

 because you are familiar with all of the family history. 



This gives our readers an intimate glimpse into the native and 

 some of the cultivated members of the rose family in Wisconsin. 

 Many and varied are the edible fruits of the rose family in the United 

 States. Doubtless a list of them will prove enlightening to our non- 

 technical readers. The apples, pears, plums, peaches, apricots, nec- 

 tarines, loquats, quinces, red haws, and juneberries all seem to the 

 uninitiated to belong to one family. But when we include such dif- 

 ferent fruits as the strawberry, raspberry, dewberry, blackberry, 

 loganberry and several kinds of cherries, the relationship is not so 

 apparent. 



