Learn the Characteristics of Each Family of Rose Children 

 Before You Decide Upon Which Ones to Adopt 



Landscape architects, the expert users of Roses, call for many different 

 types to fashion their garden pictures. The non-professional rose-planter 

 may add variety and novelty to the garden picture if he or she has knowl- 

 edge of each separate family and its traits. To help you, we indicate below 

 only a few of these famihes and the broader classifications. On page 12 are 

 some of the ways in which Roses may best be used. Each following para- 

 graph is numbered to correspond with illustrations at foot of pages 10 and 11. 



1. Creeping Roses. (Wichuraiana.) See page 68. 



The Wichuraiana Rose clings close to the ground. It throws out runners which 

 sucker and fasten themselves tightly, thus making them valuable on embankments, 

 as "a thing of beauty," and also to prevent the soil from washing. Dorothy Perkins 

 and her sisters are Hybrids of Wichuraiana, and do not hug the ground so tightly as 

 do the mother Wichuraiana, Mrs. M. H. Walsh and Max Graf. 



2. Baby Roses. (Polyanthas.) See pages 44 and 45. 



Polyanthas, also called Baby Ramblers, even in the bush form which do not ramble 

 at all. They are remarkable for an almost constant display of bloom. Quantities of 

 small blossoms in clusters cover the bushes throughout a longer uninterrupted period 

 than almost any other Rose family. They are used as individual specimens, for low 

 hedges, for solid beds or for edging, and are unsurpassed for cemetery planting. 



Ellen Poulsen, Lafayette and Gruss an Aachen have larger flowers than the other 

 Polyanthas. 



3. Bush Roses. 



We describe them here in two sizes: (a) and (b). 



(a) SHORT. 15 to 30 inches. See pages 16 to 37. 



Most of the Roses in the Tea and Hybrid Tea classes, like Ophelia, Radiance, and 

 the Roses in our Star Service Set (page 5). 



(b) TALL. 3 to 4 feet or more. See pages 52 to 57. 



Most of che Hybrid Perpetuals with larger and fewer 

 flowers than the Hybrid Teas are in this 

 group, and some Hybrid Teas, like 

 Gruss an Teplitz. Among Hybrid Per- 

 petuals, Hugh Dickson, J. B. Clark and 

 Frau Karl Druschki often grow larger 

 than the other varieties, and are more 

 like Pillar Roses. (See illustration 5 on 

 page 11.) 



3(a) 



3(b) 





^ Baby Teas and Hybrid 

 Creeping Roses Roses Hybrid Teas Perpetuals 



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CHARACTERISTICS 



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