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Volume X 



April, 1913 



Number 4 



Roses and How to Grow Them 



By F. F. Rockwell 

 Photographs by Nathan R. Graves 



HILE it has been very universally granted 

 that the Rose is the "Queen of Flowers," 

 few people have yet come to realize its won- 

 derful range of adaptability to different pur- 

 poses. The Rose "garden" is only one of 

 the many means of making use of the ever- 

 beloved and glorious Rose. True, in the past, the garden 

 way of growing Roses has held precedence before all others 

 to such an extent that they have been considered merely 

 incidental, and never received the attention which they are 

 now coming to demand. The Rose garden can no longer 



you the name of any single* v^riety^f the~tClimbing Rose. 

 NEWER TY^ES S OF ROJES -rj \ 

 Since then there has not been any^Rose^ novelty which 



has created such a great sensation, But the/tfe have been 

 others which are really of more worth, and fully as marked 

 departures from previous types. Su€h r Jkfir v instance, is the 

 new climbing Rose, Dr. Van Fleet. While it does not make 

 such a flamboyant display as Crimson Rambler (or its newer 

 forms, such as Philadelphia Rambler, Excelsa, or Flower 

 of Fairfield), it has, nevertheless, besides its fine decorative 

 quality as a plant, the great advantage of being a splendid 



claim all the attention and cultivation of the real lover Rose for cutting, as the stems are good and the flowers 



of Roses. 



One of the things that has been effective in bringing about 

 this change is the several new types of Roses which within 

 the past few years have been developed. These newer Roses 

 have differed from their predecessors not so much in blos- 

 soms as in habit of growth and in constitution. Take, to 

 go back a little further in Rose history, for an illustration 

 which will be familiar to all, the introduction of the Crimson 

 Rambler. Not only flower lovers, but the general public 

 was taken by storm, and in the course of a very few seasons 

 you could not pass through the residential section of any 

 town or city without seeing specimens of this grand new 

 climber flaunting their crimson banners from house sides 

 and porches. Almost everybody had it then, and everybody 

 knew it, whereas, two years previous to that, not one 

 person in a hundred, in all probability, could have told 



keep well. The flowers, many of which are four inches in 

 diameter, are full and heavy, like the garden bush Roses, 

 and of a beautiful soft shell pink. Climbing American 

 Beauty, with its full crimson flowers of large size and fine 

 fragrance (a quality rare in climbing Roses), and Christine 

 Wright, which bears profusely beautiful Wild Rose double 

 blossoms not only in June, but to some extent throughout 

 the season, are other specimens of this fine new class, one 

 of the great advantages of which is that people who have 

 heretofore had no room for Roses- for cutting, and have 

 had to content themselves with a rambler trained against 

 the house, may now have a Rose suitable for both purposes. 

 Another new type of the climbing Rose is to be found in 

 the single or semi-double flowers of immense size, in such 

 sorts as Silver Moon and American Pillar; the former has 

 flowers of a silvery white, over four inches in diameter, borne 



Rosa Stylosa is one of the most beautiful of single-flowered varieties 



