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experiment carefully and introduce 
from time to time such new plants 
as merit a place in the collection. 
Judging by what the principal rose 
growers and hybridizers both here and 
abroad are stating and by the lines of 
progress they are following, the Hy- 
brid Tea Rose will come more and 
more to the foreground and win for 
itself a favorite place in the rose gard- 
en for its delicate pleasing construc- 
tion of the flower, its exquisite colors 
and shades, general graceful habit of 
growth, rich fragrance, and last, but 
not least, the well pronounced qualifi- 
cations as a perpetual bloomer. There 
are a number of varieties which stand 
our climate and the growers in their 
progress of raising and introducing de- ' 
sirable new varieties, are giving the 
question of producing hardy varieties 
due consideration. 
The following varieties are at pres- 
ent considered hardy : Kaiserin Au- 
gusta Victoria, Maman Cochet (both 
white and pink), Caroline Testout, 
Gruss an Teplitz, La France, Papa 
Gontier, Captain Christy. Gloire Lyon- 
naise, President Carnot, Mme. Abel 
Chatenay, Ferdinand Jamain, Flush o’ 
Dawn. 
The list of hybrid perpetuals is very 
large and the question which are the 
best 50, 34 or 12 hybrid perpetuals has 
been put and variously answered many 
a time. The list of the Hartford rose 
garden, I believe, contains the most 
meritorious and desirable varieties, and 
also ■ some that could be replaced by 
better. The following varieties may, 
however, be classed among the best : 
Frau Karl Druschki, General Jacque- 
minot, Clio, Duke of Edinburgh, Abel 
Carriere, Ulrich Brunner, Louis Van 
Houtte, Marie Bauman, Mad. Gabriel 
Luizet, Mrs. John Laing, Prospier 
Laugier, Margaret Dickson, Comtesse 
Cecile de Chabrillant, Anna De Dies- 
bach, Pierre Netting, Susanne Marie 
Rhodocanachi, Marquis de Castellane, 
Horace Vernet, Fisher Holmes, Earl 
of Dufferin, Mabel Morrison, Chas. 
Lefebre, Oscar Cordel, Mrs. Sharman 
Crawford. 
The collection of climbing roses at 
the Hartford rose garden contains all 
the best varieties, and as one of the 
best I wish to single out Rosa setigera, 
the Prairie Rose or Michigan Rose. 
The Polyantha roses are well represent- 
ed here, as are also the Wichuraianas 
and Rugosas, and no rose garden is 
considered complete without them. 
The wild and native roses which we 
have accorded a suitable place on the 
outskirts of the garden are : Rosa 
blanda, alba. Multiflora, nitida, rubigi- 
nosa, setigera, rugosa, lucida, canina, 
Carolina, etc. 
The very small dwarf rose that is 
shown in such a mass of flowers at the 
foot of the trellis rose (see illustration) 
is the Midget Rose (Rose multiflora 
nana). It is easily grown from seed 
every year by sowing it in February 
and growing it along in 3 to 3-inch 
pots, planting them out late in May. 
If covered in the fall it will winter 
easily. 
The number of varieties of fine hardy 
climbing roses is also increasing from 
year to year. 
Standard roses can be grown here as 
well as they are in Europe. I have 
seen very satisfactory results where the 
plants were taken up in the fall and 
buried about i8 inches deep, and re- 
planted in the early spring before they 
broke out too much. We covered the 
stems with a layer of moss all around 
up to the crown, the moss being kept 
moist during dry weather. In Sep- 
tember the moss was removed in order 
to give the bark and wood a chance 
to ripen. 
The public rose garden must be the- 
means of testing the qualifications of 
the many newcomers into the inner 
circle of the floral kingdom, the rose 
garden, and through the selection of 
the best so accomplished the people- 
will learn what to get for their own-, 
use and satisfaction. 
The original cost of the Hartford: 
rose garden complete was $3,ooo and. it. 
contained 3,000 plants. 
KEY TO PLANTING PLAN 
Bed No. Class;. 
1 Oakmont H. P. 
2 Helen Keller “ 
3 Rev. J, B. M. Camm “ 
4 Gen. Jacqueminot “ 
5 Caroline de Sansal and 
Countess' of Oxford “ 
6 Dinsmore “ 
7 Baronne Prevost “ 
8 Victor Verdier 
9 La France H. T. 
10 Dr. Andry H. P. 
11 Gloire de Margottin “ 
12 Madame Gabriel Luizet “ 
13 Jules Margottin “ 
14 Etienne Levet “ 
15 Abel Carriere “ 
16 Duke of Teck 
17 Maurice Vilmorin “ 
18 Duke of Connaught “ 
19 Maurice Bernardin “ 
20 Alfred K. Williams “ 
21 Earl of Dufferin “ 
22 Countess of Oxford “ 
23 General Washington “ 
24 Jean Liabaud “ 
25 Mons. Boncenne “ 
26 Countess de Murlnais, Crested 
and Crimson Globe Moss. 
27 Francois Michelon “ 
28 Marchioness of Lome “ 
29 Mabel Morrison H. P, 
30 La Relne “ 
31 La Rosiere “ 
