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Rosa rugosa, Blanc Double de Coubert, continued 
cannot be as cheaply imported as the ordinary 
Hybrid Perpetual and Tea Roses. The flowers 
are 6 inches in diameter when they appear in 
-early May, and those in midsummer are only 
slightly smaller. They are beautiful as cut- 
flowers and, when to this beauty is added their 
earliness, and the fact that there are no rose-bugs 
crawling down them over the table, we have 
sufficient arguments for their extensive planting. 
Belle Poitevine. Both this and the last have the 
pure Rugosa foliage that is perfectly healthy. The 
flowers are double, red, of the same shade as 
the species. We have propagated them by layers 
and the plants are large and bushy, suitable for 
immediate effects. They can be used for planting 
on sand-dunes, overhanging a sea wall, as garden 
hedges, or in the shrubbery. It is rare that such 
good value is offered in Roses or shrubs, and our 
large stock is due to an enthusiasm to popularize 
a little-known class of Roses and to encourage 
plant-breeding in varieties that are well adapted 
to the climate. 
Madame Georges Bruant. This is a hybrid 
Rugosa and the foliage shows its other parentage 
by becoming mildewed. 
Memorial Rose • Rosa Wichuraiana 
TRAILING ROSE FROM JAPAN 
The answer to "What's in a name?" is shown by 
this Rose. It was on the market under its long, 
unwieldly Latin- name, and, except for a few Boston 
enthusiasts, found no market. Then Henderson 
christened it Memorial Rose and advertised it 
widely in the magazines with a picture of it as a 
grave covering. This Barnum-like advertising got 
people to know it and its use as a grave cover 
is well-nigh forgotten. It runs over the ground, 
making a solid mat about 8 inches deep, of shiny 
dark green leaves. It will often grow 15 feet in a 
year and only needs to be started up by tying to 
make an excellent climbing Rose. 
People of this section have a slight realization of 
the landscape use of cover plants. This species 
has all the elements required, even that of propa- 
gating without expense on a private estate when 
once established; that is, a few plants can be set, 
and as they take root wherever they touch the 
ground, they can be divided up and the area ex- 
tended. They also grow readily from cuttings. 
On Long Island Sound there are many bare 
bluffs of running sand which may be wasting away 
at the rate of 1 foot per year. A sea wall will hold 
the base. This Rose, with Pitch Pine, Cedar, 
Bayberry, Honeysuckle, and a number of other 
plants, will efficiently hold the sliding soil and pre- 
vent the top from falling down to a less steep angle. 
Another use is to carpet the ground under tall 
shrubs, such as Lilacs. 
Greater improvement by hybridization has been 
made with this species than with any other in this 
country. One of the first improvements was made 
by that most eminent horticulturist, Jackson 
Dawson, of the Arnold Arboretum, who produced 
the Dawson, Farquhar, and several others yet to 
be introduced. Other hybrids were made by the 
Newport Nursery Co., and by Mr. Walsh, Woods 
Hole, Mass., and others. It hybridizes freely with 
the Tea Roses. The beauty of the creamy white 
flowers is enhanced by the cluster of golden stamens. 
This species and its varieties bloom after the 
rose-bugs have commenced to disappear, about the 
Memorial Rose, continued 
first of July. They greatly extend the season of 
Roses, for the Hybrid Perpetual Roses are at their 
height in June. This species continues to bloom 
throughout the summer and we have seen it a beau- 
tiful carpet of white just beyond the surf at Nahant, 
in August. 
A recent book on "Roses, and How to Grow 
Them," published by Doubleday, Page & Co., says 
that the Wichuraiana Hybrids are a new group of 
immense importance to American gardens, yielding 
the best climbing Roses for porch or trellis. 
Rosa Wichuraiana. Single, cream-white flowers. 
Lady Gay. This has large clusters of pink flowers 
of the color of the Hermosa Rose. We know of 
no climbing Roses that have sprung into such 
popular favor as this and the Dorothy Perkins, 
since the advent of the now ubiquitous Crimson 
Rambler. People are getting tired of the latter, 
and the above new varieties are so much more 
delicate in color that no one can criticize them. 
Their foliage is free from the mildew which 
attacks the Crimson Rambler. 
Jersey Beauty. Large, single, pale yellow flowers. 
Gardenia. This is a surprise to those who remem- 
ber the climbing Tea Roses, with the big yellow 
blossoms, which hung from the rafters of old- 
time greenhouses, and who never expected to see 
such Roses out-of-doors. It is not quite hardy 
and needs to be laid down and protected, unless 
on a south sloping terrace bank where the wood 
ripens up early. 
Fink Eoamer. Bright pink, single flowers. 
Universal Favorite. Rose-colored, double flow- 
ers, about 2 inches in diameter. 
Dorothy Perkins. The most beautiful of the hardy 
climbing Roses. A Dorothy Perkins will quickly 
cover a gateway or pergola with rich glossy 
Memorial Rose, or Rosa Wichuraiana. A beautiful trail- 
ing species with tea-scented cream-white flowers. It is one 
of the healthiest foliaged Roses and highly useful as a climb- 
ing Rose, as a cover plant for steep banks and for seaside 
planting. Its ability to hold steep sand banks and cover 
walls is exhibited along the public road on the property of 
Mr. Robert W. de Forest, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. 
