HICKS NURSERIES, WESTBURY, L. I. 



ROSES 



Climbing Rose, Dorothy Perkins. The perfectly healthy foliage 

 of this makes it beautiful when not in flower 



ROSA RUGOSA, continued 



For seaside planting, the Rugosa is one of the very best 

 plants, and offers an answer to the frequent 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 varieties are highly satisfactory. 



Rosa rugosa rubra. Single; rose color. 



Rosa rugosa alba. Single; pure white. 



ROSA RUGOSA HYBRIDS 

 Agnes Emily Carman. Flowers brilliant crimson, 

 similar to General Jacqueminot; good foliage; vigorous 

 and hardy. 



Belle Poitevine. Semi-double; deep rose; true Rugosa 

 foliage. 



Blanc Double de Coubert. Large, semi-double, pure 

 white flowers, and healthy, dark green foliage, like the 

 type. This should be used extensively both in the Rose- 

 garden or for mass planting. 



Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. Silvery pink, double blos- 

 soms, resembling some of the best Hybrid Perpetuals; 

 fragrant; the flowers are borne on tall, strong stems. 

 One of the most valuable varieties. 



Madame Georges Bruant. Delicate, pointed buds of 

 cream-white, opening into large semi-double blossoms. 

 The foliage is not so dark and vigorous as the other 

 varieties and is liable to mildew. 



New Century. Large double flowers, borne in clusters; 

 color bright rosy pink. 



Roseraie de I'Hay. A valuable new variety. The 

 flowers are double, and bright cherry-red; a free bloomer 

 and very fragrant. 



Sir Thomas Lipton. Double, white, fragrant flowers. 

 Very hardy and vigorous in growth, making it suitable to 

 use for hedges and mass-planting, as well as for planting 

 individually. 



CLIMBING ROSES 



There has, perhaps, been a greater advance in Climbing 

 Roses than in any other line of American horticulture in 

 the last few years. Before the advent of the Crimson 

 Rambler, about 1893, the Hardy Climbing Roses were 

 mostly limited to the varieties of our native Prairie Roses 

 — Prairie Queen and Baltimore Belle. 



The Rosa Wichuraiana and Rosa muUiflora have given 

 us in the hands of M. H. Walsh, Woods Hole, Massa- 

 chusetts, Jackson Dawson of the Arnold Arboretum, and 

 others, a rapidly increasing Hst of decorative Roses as 

 hardy as the Blackberry. The fundamental reason is 

 that the Multiflora, Wichuraiana and the Rugosa are all 

 natives of Eastern Asia, having a climate as variable as 

 our own. Nearly all other Roses in cultivation are native 

 to, or have been developed in, the equable climate of 

 western Europe, and are subject to numerous leaf -troubles 

 and winter-killing, making a Rose garden, unless skilfully 

 attended, look sad after midsummer. 



With the advent of the recently introduced Hardy 

 Climbing Roses, it is possible for everyone to have Roses; 

 in fact, it is the duty of everyone who has grounds to 

 consider whether he can use Roses to make the world 

 more beautiful. Formerly, the Rose was limited to the 

 Rose garden and a few bushes about the house. Now, 

 Roses can be used to clamber through the shrubbery, to 

 cover the rough bank, to make hedges with or without 

 the fence as a support, to cover railroad banks, bluffs and 

 sand-dunes, even where the ground is bare of vegetation 

 and to climb up tree trunks through the woods. 



A few people have discovered some of these varied uses, 

 and the fashion is bound to spread, because it is founded 

 on plants which will harmonize with their surroundings 

 and take care of themselves. You may have a piece of 

 waste ground so poor that only the running Blackberries 

 and Bayberry bushes try to cover it. Some of these Roses 

 will grow as rapidly as the Blackberries, sending out 

 trailers 15 feet long in a season. The cost need not deter 

 you. They grow from cuttings almost as rapidly as 

 Privet. Try some, and you will be surprised next year with 

 long streamers of beautiful flowers followed by shining, 

 healthy foliage and bright red fruit all winter. What 

 more can you ask of a plant? 



The season of Rose bugs on Long Island is from about 

 the first of June to the first of July. Many of these Roses 

 bloom outside of that season. At any rate, they bloom in 

 such profusion and are decorative at such a distance that 

 a few insects cannot mar your enjoyment. We see pic- 

 tures of Roses in California embowering trees and houses 

 with Roses growing here only in greenhouses. Now, we 

 in the East can get the same effect by selecting the right 

 kinds of Roses and giving them the proper care. 



Rosa Wichuraiana. Memorial Rose. Single, cream- 

 white flowers with golden stamens. The glossy, bright 

 foliage forms a beautiful background to the profusion 

 of white blossoms. Years ago we bought this new 

 plant and told people its name and showed them its 

 vigorous growth. The name deterred any possible in- 

 vestigation. In photographs by Bailey Willis, on a geo- 

 logical expedition in China, this Rose is seen clambering 

 over the rocks. If left to itself, it will make an even carpet 

 about I foot high, covered with little leaflets, thick and 

 shining and resistant to all insects, fungous or climatic 

 troubles. This carpet effect is new among Roses, and has 

 not been utilized in landscape-planting. It will cover a, 

 terrace bank almost as smoothly as a lawn. It is especially 

 at home on rocky or sandy banks, on the shore where it 

 shows gratitude for the spray by continuing in bloom all 

 summer. The following nine varieties are Hybrids of the 

 Wichuraiana : 



Dorothy Perkins. This has leaped into popularity as 

 rapidly as the Crimson Rambler when first introduced. 

 It has large clusters of double flowers of clear shell-pink. 

 The foliage is healthy and glossy all summer. A steep 

 bank can be covered more cheaply with these Roses than 

 with grass, the plants forming an arching, tumbling mass 

 of foliage, 3 feet high. 



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