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April, 1913 



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block ten inches deep keeps the roots of the plants 

 quite cool. 



I have tried all sorts of rock plants in this way, 

 from the Kenilworth ivy to the pasque flower, and 

 the work has been done carelessly. The workman 

 who built the wall was more accustomed to ripping 

 out stone; he placed the plants as he went 

 along, from a basket of seedlings given him for 

 that purpose, and our loss was very slight. One 

 who knew rock flowers and had a good stock to 

 work with could, I think, make a rock garden as 

 good as any in this way. 



Here in England, putting coarse climbers like 

 ivy and Virginia creeper in such a structure would 

 spoil all. The best way is to keep it filled with 

 rock plants like the rock harebells, a few Kenilworth 

 ivy, pasque flowers, blue bindweed, Tunica, and 

 things of that kind. 



England. William Robinson. 



A Rose for the Middle West 



THE sweet scented rugosa hybrid rose, Madame 

 Charles Frederick Worth, which was intro- 

 duced by J. L. Budd at the Iowa Agricultural Col- 

 lege several years ago, has gained great popularity 

 in the Middle West. One landscape architect has 

 planted bold masses of it in parks in several Illinois 

 cities, and others have employed it largely in 

 private plantings. 



Madame Charles Frederick Worth is a cross 

 between the well known hardy shrubbery rose 

 Rosa rugosa and the Hybrid Perpetual General 

 Jacqueminot. The foliage is almost identical with 

 that of the rugosa, while the flowers are larger and 

 double; they almost equal in size those of the cul- 

 tivated parent, many of them being two and one 

 half inches in diameter. 



The color of the blooms is described as a bright 

 crimson red — a few shades lighter than that of the 

 rose Ulrich Brunner. The petals are set loosely and 

 the flower, when fully open, resembles the old Dam- 

 ask rose in form. The buds, protected by heavy 

 sepals, are long and pointed until they begin to open. 

 They develop slowly and constantly, so it is seldom .. 

 — from early June until after September 15th — 

 that a bush is without flowers. In June each plant, 

 is covered with blossoms and is most attractive. 

 This rose, while inheriting the rugosa trait of 

 frequent blooming, also inherits the Hybrid Per- 

 petual habit of blooming well late in the season, 

 and last September I saw two-year old bushes with 

 a dozen or more fully expanded blooms carried on 

 each one. 



Madame Charles Frederick Worth has all the 

 hardiness of the rugosa family; in 191 1 it with- 

 stood, without the slightest damage, a temperature 

 of 38 degrees below zero, when even such hardy 

 roses as the Crimson Rambler perished. 



This hybrid and others of its class, such as the 

 better known white variety, Madame Georges 

 Bruant, are declared by a leading authority to be 

 "the future roses of the prairie states," since they 

 require no winter protection. While the roses of 

 the garden do not lend themselves to shrubbery 

 planting, owing to their cultural needs and sus- 

 ceptibility to insect pests, these hybrids are proving 

 a valuable addition to the shrubbery border. They 

 grow from four to six feet high, have foliage even 

 finer than that of their Russian parent, and an 

 important matter for growers in the Middle West 

 -*- are not subject to mildew. 



Illinois. Fred Haxton. 



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