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Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, N. Y.— Hardy Roses 
Rose bugs are circumvented by the Rosa rugosa, Blanc Double de Coubert, and other varieties which bloom 
before and after their season. This variety has large milk-white flowers and foliage as perfect as Privet 
Hardy Roses, continued 
Magna Charta. Pink, suffused with carmine. The 
flowers are large and fragrant, borne on strong, 
light green stems. 
Margaret Dickson. White. This Rose resembles 
Baroness Rothschild in its form and the close 
setting of leaves about the flowers. The large 
white blossoms with pale flesh center are very 
beautiful. Fragrant. 
Paul Neyron. Rose-pink. The largest of the 
Roses. The stems are strong and smooth, and 
the foliage is a bright, light green. A free bloomer. 
Princess Adelaide. Moss Rose. Delicate rose- 
color. The buds are well covered with moss, and 
the foliage is dark. 
Persian Yellow. A thorny bush with delicate 
foliage, bearing a profusion of small bright 
yellow Roses clustered thickly along the branches. 
A favorite in old-time gardens. Very hardy. 
Frau Karl Druschki. The ideal pure white Rose. 
Very large perfect flowers. A strong grower and 
very free-flowering. 
Rosa Rugosa • Japanese Rose 
Roses are usually thought of as of value for their 
flowers only, their foliage being of doubtful hardi- 
ness, and, if unsightly in midsummer, the plants 
are excusable and repay us by their beautiful 
flowers. The Rosa rugosa, R. Wichuraiana and R. 
multiflora, all from eastern Asia, bid fair to change 
all this. They are perfectly healthy in foliage and 
are handsome all through the summer and need 
no protection to prevent killing back in the winter. 
Rapid strides are being made by plant breeders 
in this country and Europe in introducing new 
varieties with improvements in colors, size and 
doubling of the flowers. Only a beginning has been 
made during the last fifteen years in this direction. 
With proper encouragement by amateurs, much 
more rapid improvement is possible. 
The form of the Rosa rugosa bush is broad and 
rounded, 4 to 6 feet high and equally broad. It is 
Rosa rugosa, continued 
solid and dense from the ground up. The foliage is 
dark green, shiny, and the leaves are rugose or ridged 
between the veins. 
The rose-bugs are more frequently asked about 
than any other insect pest. Hand-picking is the 
most practical remedy, but as it breeds in damp, 
sandy ground, and Long Island has an abundance 
of such ground, the rose-bugs some years are a 
vexatious pest. The Rosa rugosa and its varieties 
offer a positive way to circumvent the enemy. They 
bloom May 15 and the rose-bugs come about 
June 1 or a little later, and remain one month. 
The Rosa rugosa and its varieties, the Prairie 
Rose and Rosa Wichuraiana, bloom in July after 
the rose-bugs have disappeared. The Rugosa also 
blooms during August and September. A good 
way to increase the amount of this midsummer 
blooming is to cut back the plants nearly to the 
ground or one-half way in the winter, or some can 
be cut back in June. This cutting back is beneficial, f 
at least once in two or three years, to make the 
plants more compact. The red fruits are like little 
apples, about 1 inch in diameter, and are very showy 
being in large clusters. The thin pulp is edible. 
For seaside planting, the Rugosa is one of the 
very best plants and offers an answer to the fre- 
quent question, "What can we plant besides 
Privet?" On road banks, in wild gardens, as hedges 
and borders, around flower-gardens and in almost 
any group of shrubs, the Rosa rugosa and its varie- 
ties are highly satisfactory. 
Rosa rugosa rubra. Single red flowers about 4 
inches across. 
R. rugosa alba. Single, pure white flowers. 
Blanc Double de Coubert. We think so highly of 
this variety that we have propagated it by the 
slow process of layering plants. These plants are 
now four years old and are well branched and 
bushy. It takes a few years for a good thing to 
become known by the horticultural public, and 
Roses of the^Rugosa class have not been actively 
pushed because they are slower to propagate or 
