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The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 
a letter from the Secretary of the National 
Rose Society of England carried a par- 
ticularcommendation of F.xcelsa, referring 
especially to a lantermslide forwarded 
with others in fraternal greeting to the 
i Q20 annual meeting of the English society 
by their American friends. 
Certain men of America have done 
great work, and are continuing that work, 
in providing us with American Roses for 
America. This work is generally a labor 
of love, for while the producer of a variety 
that finds acceptance for cut-flower grow- 
ing in greenhouses may obtain a moderate 
financial reward for his successes (1 do 
not mention his failures), the hybridizer 
of garden Roses has to be content with 
deposits in the Bank of Glory, checks 
drawn on which do not pass current for 
food, shelter or clothing! 
T HE American Rose Society, which is 
the national Rose organization of the 
land, and which is growing in breadth 
and vigor after twenty years of endeavor, 
has established a registration method for 
preventing the duplication of Rose names, 
so that the man who grows a new Rose can be protected to that 
extent in his property. Recently it has appeared that through 
the parallel thinking of Anglo-Saxon minds, American Rose 
names have been duplicated in England. For example, the Rose 
Victory was registered in the United States in 1918, in innocent 
ignorance of which the National Rose Society of England has, 
in 1919, permitted the same name to be 
attached to a very excellent Rose now 
going into commerce. It was because of 
this duplication that upon a recent appli- 
cation to register a Rose as General John 
Pershing, the Executive Committee of the 
American Rose Society postponed such 
registration until by correspondence it 
could be ascertained that no English or 
French Rose had been recorded with the 
same world-popular name. Out of this 
has grown a proposition to work out in- 
ternational cooperation in the direction of 
avoidance of duplication. 
The Medals of the American Rose Soci- 
ety are the highest honors obtainable in 
America, and are cherished in conse- 
quence. Gold and Silver Medals and 
Certificates of Merit are awarded annu- 
ally by the Society itself as marks of dis- 
tinction and quality upon a difficult scale 
of points, of which it takes not less than 
95 to merit the guerdon of gold and 85 to 
attain to the silver reward. Medals are 
also supplied to affiliated local societies, so 
that the opportunity to obtain this cher- 
ished honor is just as widespread as the 
occurrence of the Rose organization, which ought to be found 
in every progressive city in the union. 
Once in each five years the Society awards the supreme honor, 
the Gertrude M. Hubbard Gold Medal, to “the raiser or origin- 
ator of the best American Rose introduced within the five years 
previous.” The Rose Excelsa, already referred to as being ad- 
ALEXANDER W. MONTGOMERY, JR. 
Of the second generation of craftsmen he deals 
especially with greenhouse Roses and is the 
producer of Hadley and Mrs. Charles Russell 
A NEW CONTRIBUTION TO CLIMBERS 
Strikingly lovely are the dark red semi-single flowers of Dr. Huey, 
produced by an amateur and named for a distinguished pioneer amateur 
THE BEAUTIFUL, FRAGRANT, DARK RED HADLEY 
Form of petal as well as of the entire Rose, texture, quality of stem, 
and quality of leafage, all must be considered and compared in judging 
