JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XIX July, 1918 No. 223 
SEQUENCE OF THE FIRST BLOOMING OF THE ROSE 
COLLECTION, SPRING OF 1918* 
A record has been kept of the first flowering of 359 kinds of 
as to the dates of earliest blooming, the record is here published, 
as follows: 
May 11... ..Rosa Hugonis. 
May 17.... .Hoosier Beauty. 
Richmond. 
May 22... ..Rosa rugosa var. rubra. 
May 23 .La France. 
May 25... ..Harrison’s Yellow. 
Mrs. George Shawyer. 
Milady. 
May 26... .. Irish Elegance. 
Irish Simplicity. 
Betty. 
Madame Edmond Rostand. 
Senateur Mascuraud. 
Gustave Regis. 
May 27. ....Amateur Teyssier. 
Ecarlate 
*Miss Sexton, whose observations on the rose collection form the basis of this 
article, was a student in the Garden School during the early spring; on the com- 
pletion of her course of study, she was appointed an apprentice and detailed for 
work in the Rose Gard del h 
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