The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 
95 
The salmon hued Rose that came 
out of the West and is named 
for its native city, Los Angeles 
A silver medal went to Radiance, 
which enjoys prominence in both 
the garden and the greenhouse 
Of intricate ancestry is Mrs. 
Charles Russell and of great 
popularity as a cut flower 
Distinguished by bearing the name 
of Dr. W. Van Fleet the most 
notable American hybridizer 
mired in England, took this super-honor in 
1914. It is a glorified and brightened Crimson 
Rambler, of better parentage, and growth and 
it has climbed its way right into the esteem of 
out-door-Rose America. 
Excelsa is the product of M. H. Walsh, a 
half-century veteran who says, “ Roses were 
my first love, and 1 still cherish them and am 
happy in growing and experimenting with 
them.” To his credit are other notable hardy 
climbers that are better than the best Europe 
can send us: Hiawatha, Evangeline, Milky 
Way, Paradise, and many others. Particu- 
larly must be mentioned Mrs. M. H. Walsh, a 
lovely double white trailer which deserved and 
obtained a Gold Medal in 1911, and Lady Gay, 
which shares honors with Dorothy Perkins as 
being the best of the double pink Ramblers, 
at home and abroad. 
A VERY different type of hardy Climbing 
Rose is notably exemplified in Climbing 
American Beauty (and the 
name is properly descrip- 
tive), Christine Wright, 
and Purity — the latter 
again d perfect, descriptive 
name. These large-flow- 
ered Roses have been sent 
out by Hoopes, Bros. & 
Thomas, and are the result 
of the vision of a famous 
botanist and nurseryman, 
Josiah Hoopes, who died 
in 1904, leaving in James 
A. Farrell an apt pupil to 
carry out his dream of bet- 
ter Climbing Roses. These 
Roses are a memorial, in 
consequence, to a great and 
lovable personality, and 
they are sturdily American. 
Both Climbing American 
Beauty and Purity have 
been given Silver Medals 
by the American Rose 
Society. 
Another unique personality who is no longer 
with us has left his living, glowing memorials 
in our gardens, though all too few of us know 
and grow them. In my own collection of 
climbers, I get more deep pleasure, I think, 
from the early morning contemplation of the 
Sargent Rose than from any other. It- is a 
Rose, and yet it is an apple blossom, raised 
to a higher power of dainty beauty. Jackson 
Dawson, who was for well on to two genera- 
tions the uncannily successful propagator of 
all sorts and conditions of plants and trees 
from all over the world, as their roots, cut- 
tings, or seeds were received at the Arnold 
Arboretum, believed he had done the best 
work of his life on the Rose which he named 
for his great chief, Prof. Charles Sprague 
Sargent — great enough as to man and Rose to 
be known by just one name — Sargent. By 
those men and women who look upon a Rose 
or any other flower without conventional pre- 
judice and can consequently scan its beauty 
free from bias, Sargent has 
been repeatedly called 
“the most beautiful Rose 
originated in America.” 
Of Dawson’s other excel- 
lent roses, 1 might name 
the climber W. C. Egan, 
also named for a cherished 
and worth-while friend, 
and Arnold, a vivid crim- 
son single flower which is 
completely distinct. 
All the foreign Rose cat- 
alogues of to-day are sure 
to list American Pillar as a 
good hardy climber, with 
single flowers of unusual 
charm. I remember see- 
ing the trial plant of it on 
the grounds of its intro- 
ducers a dozen years ago, 
and then exclaiming at its 
combination of boldness 
and delicacy. Closer ac- 
quaintance has only in- 
CAPT. GEO. C. THOMAS, JR. 
His contributions as an amateur bid 
fair to produce somethingsensational 
TO BE CHRISTENED IN JUNE 
This Rose of Capt. Thomas is now designated simply as “4A” and is regarded 
as the possible forerunner of a new race from which great things may develop 
