The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 



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IN THE Tea and Hybrid-tea classes, particularly for the im- 

 portant use of all-year-round growing for cut-flowers, Amer- 

 ican hvbridizers have, I believe, surpassed the European workers. 

 With John Cook's first American Hybrid-tea Rose, Souvenir of 

 Wootton, produced in 1888, there began an increasing procession 

 of Roses on the way to the wonderful productions of the present. 

 Cornelia Cook was a valuable "forcing" Rose, and Mr. Cook's 

 other hybrids have proved very much worth while, several of 

 them becoming great garden varieties. Radiance, which took a 

 Silver Medal in 19 14, has pervaded the gardens of the East, to 

 their great advantage. To see five-foot bushes of it, as well 

 shaped as a Spirea, laden with the lovely flowers it produces 

 continually in the climate of its nativity — the vicinity of Wash- 

 ington and Baltimore — is to realize that it is a distinct asset to 

 America. Following it came Panama, also taking a Silver 

 Medal in 191 5, and in the same group are the standard varieties 

 like Francis Scott Key and My Maryland. Mr. Cook's " Glori- 

 fied La France" was so named by reason of my burst of en- 

 thusiasm when I saw it in its home. Mrs. John Cook, a very 

 beautiful white Rose is just now being sent out by a noted 

 introducer. For sixty years of steady endeavor has John Cook 

 continued in his work, differing from that of many foreign hy- 

 bridizers in the significant restraint which has caused him to 

 discard scores of seedlings which abroad would have been sent 

 out. 



In 191 4 the notable qualities of the red Rose Hadley won for 

 its originator, Alexander W. Montgomery, Jr., the American 

 Rose Society's Gold Medal, and Hadley yet holds a very high 

 place. Among the commercial men another Montgomery Rose, 

 Mrs. Charles Russell, has a notable vogue, and is advantage- 

 ously grown by the hundred thousand. It is interesting to read 

 of its intricate parentage: "Mad. Abel Chatenay, Marquise 

 Litta de Breteuil, Caroline Testout, Mrs. W. J. Grant, General 



© Ernest Crandall 



DR. WALTER VAN FLEET 

 The Rose wizard of the western world 



Crusader, an opulent, full, 



THE AMERICAN PILLAR ROSE 

 A blend of the East and West, this is one of the finest 

 Climbers and shows wonderful delicacy as well as boldness 



MacArthur and 

 three seedlings re- 

 sulting from these 

 crosses, are all 

 combined to pro- 

 duce Mrs. Charles 

 Russell," writes 

 Mr. Montgomery. 

 Just now coming 

 through the quan- 

 tity production 

 stage for plants 

 are two new origi- 

 nations of this 

 grower — Pilgrim 

 and Crusader — in 

 which he has ob- 

 viously yielded to 

 the demand for 

 heavier Roses, 

 those with more 

 petals, more " sub- 

 stance" than the 

 heretofore popular Ophelia type, 

 red Rose, is illustrated|#ri the 1920 American Rose Annual 



It is interesting to pofe the trend toward Roses of more sub- 

 stance. For awhile the informal beauty of the Roses with 20 to 

 30 petals appealed to those who bought them, and particularly 

 pleased the florists, who found them to open more quickly and 

 sometimes to produce more abundantly. Gradually, however, 

 the taste is veering toward the more solid and substantial Rose 

 with from 50 to 80 petals. It opens more slowly, to be sure, but 

 there is more of it when it does open, and the open flower itself 

 is, as in the case of Crusader, a glorious thing. 



Milady is a preferred Rose by many cut-flower growers, and is 

 the production of Edward Towill, who has other good Roses to 

 his credit, as well as the idea of keeping on with hybridization. 

 Mrs. Henry Winnett is a red Rose of merit, coming from John 

 H. Dunlop, a Canadian grower. Hoosier Beauty, a standard 

 red Hybrid-tea, comes from the state of poets and novelists as 

 the work of Mr. Dorner. There are other incidental productions 

 and many "sports" which show discrimination in selection, to 

 the credit of American rose-growers. I have tried to touch the 

 high spots only! 



A PARAGRAPH is due to the Rose which came out of the 

 West, captured the admiration of the garden makers of 

 the American East, and, crossing the Atlantic, took the highest 

 French honor in 1918, in the shape of the Gold Medal awarded 

 for the best Rose growing outdoors in the famous Bagatelle 

 gardens, near Paris. Los Angeles is the name, and Los Angeles 

 the home point, of this notable Rose, the production of Fred 

 H. Howard, a far-seeing and energetic hybridizer. The rich 

 salmon-orange tints of the Pernetiana type are combined with 

 softer hues, and with a delightful result in Los Angeles. Mr. 

 Howard has other good Roses in commerce and coming, and 

 it is well to keep an eye on the southern part of California, not 

 only for new varieties but for the vast quantities of Rose plants 

 which we may expect to be there produced. 



The shut-off by Quarantine No. 37 has caused the Rose growers 

 in the vinicity of San Jose to bestir themselves, and millions of 

 cuttings and other millions of rooted plants are now in the 

 ground in this favorable location. The whole of the Pacific 

 Coast deals kindly with the Rose, from the obviously favorable 

 conditions in the south of California to the inexplicably favor- 

 able conditions of Oregon. It is not yet certain that California 

 can successfully provide varieties or plants particularly adapted 

 to eastern United States. The climate along the western Pacific 

 slope is far more nearly akin to that of the south of Europe than 

 to that of the east of America. This is mentioned in reasonable 

 caution, but in no sense in derogation of the vigorous American- 



