The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 



95 



The salmon hued Rose that came 

 out of the West and is named 

 for its native city, Los Angeles 



A silver medal went to Radiance, 

 which enjoys prominence in both 

 the garden and the greenhouse 



Of intricate ancestry is Mrs. 

 Charles Russell and of great 

 popularity as a cut flower 



Distinguished by bearing the name 

 of Dr. W. Van Fleet the most 

 notable American hybridizer 



mired in England, took this super-honor in 

 1914. It is a glorified and brightened Crimson 

 Rambler, of better parentage, and growth and 

 it has climbed its way right into the esteem of 

 out-door-Rose America. 



Excelsa is the product of M. H. Walsh, a 

 half-century veteran who says, " Roses were 

 my first love, and I still cherish them and am 

 happy in growing and experimenting with 

 them." To his credit are other notable hardy 

 climbers that are better than the best Europe 

 can send us: Hiawatha, Evangeline, Milky 

 Way, Paradise, and many others. Particu- 

 larly must be mentioned Mrs. M. H. Walsh, a 

 lovely double white trailer which deserved and 

 obtained a Gold Medal in 191 1 , and Lady Gay, 

 which shares honors with Dorothy Perkins as 

 being the best of the double pink Ramblers, 

 at home and abroad. 



AVERY different type of hardy Climbing 

 Rose is notably exemplified in Climbing 

 American Beauty (and the 

 name is properly descrip- 

 tive), Christine Wright, 

 and Purity — the latter 

 again a perfect, descriptive 

 name. These large-flow- 

 ered Roses have been sent 

 out by Hoopes, Bros. & 

 Thomas, and are the result 

 of the vision of a famous 

 botanist and nurseryman, 

 Josiah Hoopes, who died 

 in 1904, leaving in James 

 A. Farrell an apt pupil to 

 carry out his dream of bet- 

 ter Climbing Roses. These 

 Roses are a memorial, in 

 consequence, to a great and 

 lovable personality, and 

 they aresturdily American. 

 Both Climbing American 

 Beauty and Purity have 

 been given Silver Medals 

 by the American Rose 

 Society. 



CAPT. GEO. C. THOMAS, JR. 



His contributions as an amateur bid 

 fair to produce something sensational 



TO BE CHRISTENED IN JUNE 



This Rose of Capt. Thomas is now designated simply as ' 

 as the possible forerunner of a new race from which great 



Another unique personality who is no longer 

 with us has left his living, glowing memorials 

 in our gardens, though all too few of us know 

 and grow them. In my own collection of 

 climbers, I get more deep pleasure, I think, 

 from the early morning contemplation of the 

 Sargent Rose than from any other. It is a 

 Rose, and yet it is an apple blossom, raised 

 to a higher power of dainty beauty. Jackson 

 Dawson, who was for well on to two genera- 

 tions the uncannily successful propagator of 

 all sorts and conditions of plants and trees 

 from all over the world, as their roots, cut- 

 tings, or seeds were received at the Arnold 

 Arboretum, believed he had done the best 

 work of his life on the Rose which he named 

 for his great chief, Prof. Charles Sprague 

 Sargent — great enough as to man and Rose to 

 be known by just one name — Sargent. By 

 those men and women who look upon a Rose 

 or any other flower without conventional pre- 

 judice and can consequently scan its beauty 

 free from bias, Sargent has 

 been repeatedly called 

 "the most beautiful Rose 

 originated in America." 

 Of Dawson's other excel- 

 lent roses, 1 might name 

 the climber W. C. Egan, 

 also named for a cherished 

 and worth-while friend, 

 and Arnold, a vivid crim- 

 son single flower which is 

 completely distinct. 



All the foreign Rose cat- 

 alogues of to-day are sure 

 to list American Pillar as a 

 good hardy climber, with 

 single flowers of unusual 

 charm. 1 remember see- 

 ing the trial plant of it on 

 the grounds of its intro- 

 ducers a dozen years ago, 

 and then exclaiming at its 

 combination of boldness 

 and delicacy. Closer ac- 



'4A and is regarded . J , 



things may develop quaintance has only m- 



