EOSE 



ROSE 



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ioiiml amony: a nuuili-ftl varirticx. and this is ] 



larly the case in places visited by heavy frost 



rette i-fmainiiii; uiij^eathed. while all othei's ar 



or less hlasted. The great Kose of the eastern 



States, American Beanty, is almost 



a complete failure here and is imt ^_^ 



worth growing except in a very /^' ''- 



few. well-favored gardens, and 



even there it is far from buing 



perfect. 



Many Koses, too, are of little 

 value here unless b u d d e d *>r 

 grafted. Of this class Mareehal 

 Kiel is the most striking example. 

 Instances may be found where this 

 Rose has thrived unusually on its 

 own roots, bat sueh eases are 

 marked exeep>tiinis. Some few pi-o 

 pie maintain that all Koses are 

 best on their own roots, but 

 opinions are easily refuted by eon 

 sailing any of our veteran 

 rosariaus. The lunler signed 

 does not advi-^e the purchase 

 of any such stock, no matter 

 how much is claimed for it, 

 or how widely advertised it 

 may be. The best Roses he 

 has ever seen were root- 

 grafted, but of course this 

 procedure is too expensive 

 for the general unrseryman. 

 and the bulk of our local 



"irticu- 



, Lau- 



more 



/nited 



winter and spring 

 leading Rose in C; 

 its own roots, in a 

 beconiiu'^ a thinLC 

 wliolly (Usearded. 

 liiu-en "f the fanr 

 our Rose gardens 

 thracnose), which 

 Kose. but seems ti 

 Thus far no ear" 



la Fram-e for many years was the 

 >rnia ami grew well, budded or on 

 st any locality, but is now rapidly 

 the past, though it can never be 

 it is still, in a few --aniens, tlie 

 Irs in\"oluntary retirenn-nt from 

 due entirtly to a "die tiaek " (an- 

 ects many other plants than the 

 .ve a si.ieeial liking fur La France. 

 been t'lund 



2184. Full-blown flower of Madame 



Georges Bruant Rose. Natural size. 



Stock is budded on Manetti or :\raiden's Blush, though 

 the Dog Rose (it''>.s-'( ca)>i>Ki\ and even the Banksia 

 are often used. Those Roses grown on their own roots 

 are usually propagated from hardwood cuttings, grown 

 out of doors, and December is usually the best month, 

 though the writer has successfully rooted them from 

 October to ]\Iarch, according to the variety. 



Rust bothers us but little; likewise scale, though in 

 many neglected gardens the bush and climbers alike 

 may be found covered with both the rose scale and the red 

 scale of the orange. Fuller's rose beetle is a nuisance 

 only in small areas, but green aphis is quite a pest in 



Below will be found a list of the best dozen bush 

 and half dozen climbing Roses for southern Cali- 

 fornia, compiled from lists furnished the writer by 

 the best six nurservmen and growers in Los Angeles. 

 An increasing demand for Maman Cocbet is quite 

 marked, and the few White Manian Cochet yet grown 

 here seems to mark it as the coming white K<ise for this 

 section. . i ^ 



The following lists place the varieties m the order ot 

 their desirability for either tlorist or fancier, when 

 grown out of doors : 



Bu.'<li ii'o,Sf^^— Marie Van Houtte, Madame Laml^ard, 

 JIaman Cochet, Papa Gontier, Kaiserin Aui^^usta Vic- 

 toria, Laurette, The Bride, Catherine 31ermet. Meteor, 

 Perle des Jardins. Caroline Testout. Elise t^auvage. 



C/'')///'^r^^.-Laniarque, Marechal Xiel, Climbing Sou- 

 venir de Woottou. Rsve d' Or. Reine Marie Heiiriette, 

 (Ih.ire de Dijon. This list will be found to be the best 

 for Los Angeles and vicinity in general. The intelli- 

 gent nurservman or careful purchaser sliould be able 

 to make the" slight changes required by peculiar condi- 

 tions. 



To Mr. Frank Fusion, nurseryman of Los Angeles, 

 the writer is inuebted for manv valualde points con- 

 tained in this article; also to Mr. Wm. S. Lyon, whose 

 little booklet, "Gardening in California," contains the 

 best practical treatise on Rose-growing ever published 

 on this coast. Erxest Bkaunto>\ 



