The Garden of 
from the limelight, 
but the glorious Rose has quietly 
kept its place as the most prized and 
most beloved of all the fair competi- 
tors in the garden; nor is it likely 
ever to be displaced. The wealthy 
may abandon it for their hothouse 
Orchids, grown by experts, but it is 
bound by a thousand ties of tradi- 
tion, poetry and sentiment to the 
hearts of the many. No real lover 
of flowers would ever be satisfied to 
let “the gardener” have all the care 
of bringing them to maturity, any 
more than the artist would think of 
hiring someone to paint his pictures. 
For the garden of the real lover 
of flowers—any lover of flowers— 
modern Roses are the unequaled 
favorites, the greatest satisfaction 
givers. “But why modern Roses?” 
you may ask. The answer is inter- 
esting. The Rose has undergone a 
so available to the million, so pre-eminently 
the heritage of the everyday gardener. Other 
flowers have been “‘boomed,”’ become for a 
while the popular fad and dropped again 
Apnil, 1912 
By F. F. Rockwell 
Photographs by Nathan R. Graves 
Souvenir de Maria Zayas. Carmine 
somewhat singular development. When Rose growing was 
almost entirely in the hands of the professional private 
gardeners and the flowers were produced solely to be cut 
for the table and other interior decorative uses, it was 
natural that the development of a large, firm, long-keeping 
bud was the thing striven for. The 
individual flower was the whole 
thing; the form of the bush, or its 
healthiness, or its hardiness, or the 
length of freedom of its blooming 
period were then matters of small 
consequence. The private gardener 
engaged by the estate did not have 
to pay the gardening bills, and, per- 
haps, found it possible to go into his 
Rose-growing experiments without 
restriction. Now, generally speak- 
ing, the old order of things is more 
or less changed about. 
The garden Rose of to-day has 
been bred for the beauty of its plant- 
form as well as for that of its flower; 
likewise it is now being bred for 
health, for hardiness, for freedom 
and continuity of bloom. As a re- 
sult, the hybridizers have given us 
some wonderful specimens. Through 
all. of the most beautiful, most satiny 
