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The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 



a letter from the Secretary of the National 

 Rose Society of England carried a par- 

 ticularcommendation of Excelsa, referring 

 especially to a lantern-rslide forwarded 

 with others in fraternal greeting to the 

 1920 annual meeting of the English society 

 by their American friends. 



Certain men of America have done 

 great work, and are continuing that work, 

 in providing us with American Roses for 

 America. This work is generally a labor 

 of love, for while the producer of a variety 

 that finds acceptance for cut-flower grow- 

 ing in greenhouses may obtain a moderate 

 financial reward for his successes (1 do 

 not mention his failures), the hybridizer 

 of garden Roses has to be content with 

 deposits in the Bank of Glory, checks 

 drawn on which do not pass current for 

 food, shelter or clothing! 



THE American Rose Society, which is 

 the national Rose organization of the 

 land, and which is growing in breadth 

 and vigor after twenty years of endeavor, 

 has established a registration method for 

 preventing the duplication of Rose names, 

 so that the man who grows a new Rose can be protected to that 

 extent in his property. Recently it has appeared that through 

 the parallel thinking of Anglo-Saxon minds, American Rose 

 names have been duplicated in England. For example, the Rose 

 Victory was registered in the United States in 1918, in innocent 

 ignorance of which the National Rose Society of England has, 



ALEXANDER W. MONTGOMERY, JR. 



Of the second generation of craftsmen he deals 

 especially with greenhouse Roses and is the 

 producer of Hadley and Mrs. Charles Russell 



in 1019. permitted the same name to be 

 attached to a very excellent Rose now 

 going into commerce. It was because of 

 this duplication that upon a recent appli- 

 cation to register a Rose as General John 

 Pershing, the Executive Committee of the 

 American Rose Society postponed such 

 registration until by correspondence it 

 could be ascertained that no English or 

 French Rose had been recorded with the 

 same world-popular name. Out of this 

 has grown a proposition to work out in- 

 ternational cooperation in the direction of 

 avoidance of duplication. 



The Medals of the American Rose Soci- 

 ety are the highest honors obtainable in 

 America, and are cherished in conse- 

 quence. Gold and Silver Medals and 

 Certificates of Merit are awarded annu- 

 ally by the Society itself as marks of dis- 

 tinction and quality upon a difficult scale 

 of points, of which it takes not less than 

 95 to merit the guerdon of gold and 85 to 

 attain to the silver reward. Medals are 

 also supplied to affiliated local societies, so 

 that the opportunity to obtain this cher- 

 ished honor is just as widespread as the 

 occurrence of the Rose organization, which ought to be found 

 in every progressive city in the union. 



Once in each five years the Society awards the supreme honor, 

 the Gertrude M. Hubbard Gold Medal, to "the raiser or origin- 

 ator of the best American Rose introduced within the five years 

 previous." The Rose Excelsa, already referred to as being ad- 



THE BEAUTIFUL, FRAGRANT, DARK RED HADLEY 



Form of petal as well as of the entire Rose, texture, quality of stem, 

 and quality of leafage, all must be considered and compared in judging 



A NEW CONTRIBUTION TO CLIMBERS 



Strikingly lovely are the dark red semi-single flowers of Dr. Huey, 

 produced by an amateur and named for a distinguished pioneer amateur 



