THE DAWSON ROSE. 
A NEW HYBRID. 
Unlike the numerous seedlings \vh\ch ;irc annually introduced as crosses of 
era IS described as '* certauiiy 
and it is a matter of surprise 
den and Forest lor 1SS9, page 309, 
one of the most beautiful of the Japanese plants, 
that the natural single form is so rarely seen and so little known. The stems are 
round, smooth, bright green, and armed with remote broad recurved spines and 
terminated by great compound racemes twelve to fifteen inches long by eight or 
ten broad, of flowers the size of a shilling, the pure white petals contrasting 
charmingly with the golden stamens. So abundant are the flowers that the 
plants are completely hidden by them, as all the flowers in each raceme do not 
open at once but gradually, a couple of weeks often elap.sing between the open- 
ing of the first and the last. The plants are in flower for a long time. It is not 
easy to imagine a more beautiful object than a well-established specimen." 
With such characteristics and a rapid climbing habit coml)ined with the known 
excellence of General Jacqueminot, we might reasonably expect that a cross 
would have superior merit. Mr. Dawson has selected two seedlings which are 
of great promise. One of these is described and photographed in Garden and 
Forest for 1891, page 532, as possessing an individual beauty surpassed by that 
of few of the plants found in our gardens. The result is a vigorous and hardy 
plant with a tendency to climb high. The spines and foliage are those of the 
pollen parent, but the flowers are clustered like those of Multiflora, sometimes as 
many as sixty being developed in a single panicle. They are semi-double, rose- 
colored, and exceedingly fragrant. Apart from its own merit it seems destined 
to play an important part in the creation of a new race of hardy climbing Roses. 
Such an indorsement from the eminently conservative editor is sufficient praise. 
In the same editorial another hybrid with the same parentage is mentioned 
" which we intend to figure, which is perhaps even more distinct and beautiful 
than the one which forms the subject of the illustration in this issue." This is 
selected as decidedly the best seedling, and as a permanent honor to its skilled 
originator it is called the " Dai:jso± 
:!ut though so attractive when forced as a pot-plant, yet its remarkable beauty, 
vigor, and excellence are best seen in open culture. For the past two years it has 
been trained upon a trellis at the Arnold Arboretum and it has demonstrated its 
absolute hardiness, vigor, wonderful profusion of bloom, and general excellence 
beyond dispute. We can with confidence predict that it will be wanted by every 
lover of the Rose either for bush form or as a climber. 
