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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1906 



Gillett's Ferns and Flowers 



For Dark, Shady Places 



While we grow many thousands of the hardy garden flowers 

 which require open sunlight for their growth, like Phloxes, Cam- 

 panulas, Peonies, Digitalis, etc., there is a demand for something 

 to grow in dark shady places where the hardy garden plants will 

 not thrive. We find just such a class of plants in the HARDY 

 WILD FERN AND FLOWERS of New England. These we have 

 been studying and growing for 25 years, and can help you in 

 your selections. They are adapted for a great many places, and 

 selections can be made for beautifying the dark corner by the 

 porch, the shaded wall or hedge, shady hillsides, wet places in 

 both open sun, deep shade, dry woods and rocky places. Brilliant 

 lobelias for planting in small brooks; dainty gentians for planting 

 by brookside. Also Rhododendrons and other American shrubs. 



Send for my Illustrated Descriptive 

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A New Type of American Rose 



THE new rose, Wellesley, is one of a type 

 which professional rose growers are 

 at present - endeavoring to perfect. The 

 problem which presents itself to the hybridist 

 is to produce a perpetual-flowering rose 

 which shall have all the good points of the tea 

 family, and at the same time the wide range 

 of beautiful colors found only in the hybrids. 

 The hybrids, which, as a rule, blossom only 

 once a year, include nearly all the brilliant 

 colors, the pinks and the reds. The teas, 

 on the other hand, are perpetual flowering, 

 but, unfortunately, they embrace only the 

 lighter shades. The logical sequence is to 

 cross the two races, thereby producing what 

 have been named hybrid teas. 



Progress along this line has been very slow. 

 While some very good pink hybrid teas were 

 early produced, it was not until recent years, 

 when the beautiful crimson rose, Liberty, was 

 presented to the world of rose lovers, that 

 the rosarian has been able to make satis- 

 factory progress in the darker shades. But 

 even Liberty, good as it is, is not the ideal 

 rose which the grower of cut flowers has in 

 mind, and it will be necessary to get still 

 more tea blood into it before we can approach 

 the standard which has been set. 



Bridesmaid, which is a tea rose, is, in the 

 estimation of the majority of professional 

 rose growers, the one which most nearly 

 approaches the perfect forcing type. Many 

 extravagant claims have been made for 

 various new sorts which have come and 

 gone, but Bridesmaid to-day is still the best. 



Having in our greenhouses two such 

 beautiful roses as these, why not use them 

 as the progenitors of a new race, which shall 

 combine the best features of each ? It was 

 early observed that Liberty would make a 

 good seed bearer, but, on the other hand, 

 Bridesmaid, although we had hundreds of 

 blooms in our greenhouses, produced scarcely 

 a grain of pollen. This condition is prob- 

 ably accounted for by the continual forcing 

 to which this rose has been subjected, year 

 after year, whereby the stamens were grad- 

 ually deformed, and reappeared in the shape 

 of additional petals. In the spring of 1900, 

 sufficient pollen was gathered however to 

 fertilize a flower of Liberty. 



The seeds were carefully sown, and, just 

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 other fungi, and if it survives these it is liable 

 to be eaten in a single night by one of the 

 many little bugs which are always on the 

 lookout for such a rare and delicate little 

 morsel. In a year from the time that the 

 plant first made its appearance above ground, 

 we had concluded that it had sufficient 

 points of merit to ask rose lovers to make a 

 place for it in their gardens. 



Wellesly is a good begining in the direction 

 named. It is a strong growing rose, the 

 petals very light pink inside but a much 

 deeper shade on the outer surface. To those 

 who know La France it may well be likened 

 to that rose but lacking its peculiar lilac tint. 



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