132 FOURTH NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 
The Hybrid Perpetuals, Teas, and other garden types are indeed of little 
value or interest except in the house, for if the flowers are left outdoors they 
open too fast and too far, and soon wilt and fade in the sun. The growth, too, 
is either puny and thin, or tall and spindling, and the foliage has little beauty. 
They have been so bred for flowers that their appearance as a whole has suffered. 
It is different, however, with the common roses of the thickets, which have 
mostly been neglected by the rosarian and the hybridizer, and which retain 
the simple delicacy of single flowers together with the rugged constitution which 
means thrifty growth and pleasing foliage. These common wild roses can be 
used with other shrubs in any thicket, or they may be planted in masses, each 
variety by itself, or several varieties may be associated in a plantation. They 
fruit abundantly, and the haws are of considerable beauty and interest in the 
winter landscape. This is a matter of great importance, for the shrubbery 
in winter should be as beautiful though less showy than in summer. Indeed, 
I often think our native shrubs are more beautiful in winter, when the brilliant 
luxuriance of full foliage has given place to the more subtle hues of the bare 
branches. These bare branches are full of delicate misty colors when seen 
in mass, and these colors have a wide range, from pale green to rusty greens, 
bronzy reds, and quiet crimson. 
The roses show remarkable variation in height and in habit of growth, 
so that they can be used in many different situations. They are easy to suit 
as to soil, and can be grown along meadow streams, on rocky hillsides, or on 
the sandy beach, often appearing voluntarily where few other plants will live. 
Their use in the landscape is important, for the native varieties are char- 
acteristic of much of our eastern scenery, and when planted in quantities they 
give that appearance of natural wildness which is more and more coming to be 
the ideal in parks and country places. 
The wild roses, as they must continue to be called to distinguish them from 
the hybrids, are found in New England pastures associated with bayberry, red 
cedar, elder, arrow-wood and other shrubs of the fields. Along the coast they 
are commonly found in such desert places as support the beach plum, bayberry, 
goldenrod and beach-grass. They gain from association with these wild 
neighbors. They are especially useful for holding steep and rocky banks, since 
their stolons grow in every direction and form a perfect mass of shoots and roots 
which hold leaves and soil. 
I doubt if any shrub makes as good a cover for birds, winter or summer. 
They are difl&cult for cats to penetrate, and a thicket of Rosa multi flora and R. 
setigera is impassable for man or boy. The rose thicket needs no care when well 
started, except to cut out seedling trees which may appear. In fact, they are 
so thorny that care of the ordinary sort is impossible, and even the most 
Teutonic gardeners will cease in disgust their efforts to mutilate a rose shrub- 
bery'. 
The wild roses cannot be tamed; they will never make good specimens for 
