May, 19 10 



T HE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



229 



Madame Alfred Carriers rose (Hybrid noisette, 

 blush white) is uninjured by winter, and flowers 

 profusely 



of the flats and of the apartment houses. 

 It is not so much a question of pride with its 

 people, as that it would be a disgrace not 

 to have roses in the yards as well as in the 

 gardens. The public sentiment demands 

 roses to be planted and cared for. It comes 

 of the feeling that Portland shall be a city 

 beautiful. 



Its people have a pride in the varieties of 

 roses they cultivate. That a bush is a rose 

 is not sufficient. It must have a name, a 

 reputation and beauty. From the thou- 

 sands of named varieties they make their 

 choice. The greatest favorite is Caroline 

 Testout. There are 

 tens of thousands of 

 this variety. In the 

 aggregate there are 

 thousands of feet of 

 hedges of this contin- 

 uous blooming, love- 

 ly rose. Last year 

 the world's trade sup- 

 ply of bushes of this 

 variety was exhaust- 

 ed by Portland peo- 

 ple. Probably La 

 France comes next 

 in numbers, for it is 

 an old variety, al- 

 though Frau Karl 

 Druschki rivals it 

 in popularity. Ul- 

 rich Brunner has a 

 host of friends. But 

 I cannot, in this 

 article, go into an 

 enumeration of its 

 popular varieties of 

 roses. There is a 

 great desire for the 

 new roses of each 

 year. The profession- 

 al local florists have 

 responded to the 



demand. The new European and Amer- 

 can varieties are offered as soon as 

 they can be had. I have now growing in 

 my garden, and which bloomed last year, 

 several bushes of each of the following choice 

 new varieties: Lyon-Rose, Rhea Reid, Jean 

 Note, George C. Waud, Molly Sharman- 

 Crawford, Avoca, Chateau de Clos Vougeot, 

 Harry Kirk, Kronprinzessin Cecile, La 

 Galissure, Laurent Carle, Mme. P. Euler, 

 Mme. Segond-Weber, Queen of Spain, 

 Marquise de Sinety, Souv. du Rosieriste 

 L. Rose Vilin, Yvonne Vacherot, and other 

 of the new varieties which have made good, 

 such as Charles J. Grahame, Dean Hole, 

 Etoile de France, Florence Pemberton, Gen- 

 eral McArthur, Hugh Dickson, Joseph 

 Hill, Mme. Melanie Soupert, J. B. Clark, 

 Mrs. Myles Kennedy, Mrs. Kavid MeKee, 

 Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, William Shean 

 and many others, as the school-boys write 

 in their alleged compositions, "too numerous 

 to mention." 



Climbing roses grow luxuriantly and 

 bloom wonderfully. The mild and even 

 weather in winter does not injure the ends 

 of the shoots, and thus enables them to grow 

 in length the succeeding season. I have 

 growing on supports against my residence 

 one Mme. Alfred Carriere thirty-five feet 

 high, and another forty feet. I have had 

 for a number of years a Fortune's Yellow 

 more than twenty-five feet in height. This 

 is the rose more commonly called in this 

 country Beauty of Glazenwood, and in 

 California Gold of Ophir and San Rafael 

 Rose. It was introduced into England in 

 1845, by Robert Fortune, the collector. 



These two climbing varieties in my garden 

 have become somewhat noted. England 

 may be the land of roses, but I feel that we 

 outdo the English here, as witness a letter, 



Fortune's Yellow (Hybrid noisette) showers its 

 coppery tinged flowers in lavish wreaths on the 

 author's home 



dated April 23, 1909, from Edward Mawley, 

 the Honourary Secretary of the National 

 Rose Society of England. Referring to the 

 picture of my Fortune's Yellow bush in full 

 bloom, he wrote: "It is a grand rose and one 

 we long to grow here, but only now and then 

 is it seen doing well out of doors." 



All climbing roses do well in Portland, 

 including Gainsborough (a climbing sport of 

 Viscountess Folkestone), Ard's Pillar, Climb- 

 ing Caroline Testout, Climbing Kaiserin 

 Augusta Victoria, Mme. Jules Gravereaux, 

 Mme. Berard, Mar- 

 echal Niel, and Wil- 

 liam Allen Richard- 

 son, all of which 

 I have growing in 

 my garden. By care- 

 ful cultivation I 

 have made into pil- 

 lar roses or semi- 

 climbers, ten or 

 twelve feet high, 

 Gruss an Teplitz, 

 Gloire de Margottin, 

 J. B. Clark, and 

 Mdlle. Germaine 

 Trochon. 



As Portland is a 

 Rose City, it occur- 

 red to some of its 

 public-spirited citi- 

 zens that it would 

 be well to devote a 

 week each year, 

 early in June, to 

 holding a rose fes- 

 tival. For several 

 years it had had 

 successful rose 

 shows. The first 

 successful rose fes- 



Quite naturally, in a climate like Portland, roses are the chief garden plants 



tival was in 1908. 



