ROSE CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA 



HO does not love the rose? Our very earli- 

 est literature, both sacred and profane, makes 

 mention of the rose. Rose-poetry, and the 

 art galleries of the Old and the New Worlds, 

 all chronicle the queenly progress of the rose. 

 Rising from the simplest origin, the rose has become one of 

 the most complicated of hybrids. Our name Rose comes 

 from the Celtic "rhod," meaning red, and the Northern 

 countries of Siberia, Iceland, Greenland and Kamchatka 

 have all produced valuable species, while China, Persia 

 and India have furnished the finest. America and Europe 

 have furnished a hundred native species, and from all this 

 material have been evolved thousands of varieties. The 

 hundred-leafed "Rose of Pliny" was introduced to Eng- 

 land's gardens in 1 596, and the most eminent rosarians of 

 the world's history are found among the English. AH 

 lovers of roses would do well to read the writings of "Canon 

 Hole," as S. Reynolds Hole is lovingly called by authori- 

 ties on rose culture. There is a certain charm about the 

 stories of the "Queen of Flowers" so that while they may 

 lack something in literary value, certainly they give one a 

 new attitude toward flower culture generally, and roses in 

 particular. The Ellwangers, too, father and son, have 



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