February 16, 
132 
Ruralisms ; 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
A Rose Worth Growing. —The splen¬ 
did hardy rose shown in Fig. 48. 'page 123, 
originated on the Rural Grounds 12 years 
ago from a seed of Magna Charta, one 
of the hardiest and best of the Hybrid 
China race, pollenized with Safrano, a 
vigorous tea-scented rose with abundant 
saffron-lmed blooms, that has been in 
popular cultivation since 1839. Both va¬ 
rieties are among the most robust and 
healthy of their respective classes, and the 
idea was to breed new Hybrid Teas of 
superior vigor, if possible. Crossing was 
effected both ways, but the seedlings of 
Safrano fertilized with Magna Charta 
pollen never amounted to anything while 
the few grown from Magna Charta seeds 
with Safrano pollen, all produced good 
flowers on robust plants. The best one 
was introduced to cultivation as a distinct 
and superior variety under the name of 
Magna-frano, made up r rom portions of 
the parents’ names. It has never been 
boomed, but has steadily grown in favor 
from sheer merit, and is now known as 
the “Everblooming Jacqueminot” rose, 
from the great size, brilliant color and 
profusion of its buds and blooms. The 
plant is healthy and hardy, needing only 
slight protection in the coldest regions, 
and the flowers are constantly borne on 
strong stems clothed with large, shining 
foliage. They are four to five inches 
across, full and double, in the general 
style of Magna Charta. but much deeper 
in color, crimson in bud and deep clear 
rose in the opened bloorp. The fragrance 
is rich and penetrating, combining the 
agreeable quality of the Tea rose, with the 
characteristic and pleasing odor of the 
Remontant roses. It blooms so freely 
under the strain of propagation that it 
has been recommended for commercial 
forcing for cut blopms, and fair trial 
may show that it has qualities similar 
to those of the famous American Beauty. 
As no effort has been made to push 
Magnofrano into prominence, the dis¬ 
seminators preferring that it win its way 
- by merit alone, it has not generally been 
catalogued by dealers. It is now offered 
by The Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, 
Pa., and Peter Henderson & Co., 35 
Cortlandt Street, New York City. Rose 
lovers desiring a superior, large-flowered 
variety of dwarf growth for garden or 
glasshouse culture would do well to try 
it. 
Native Yellow Weigelas. —The white 
and pink flowered Asiatic Weigelas so 
predominate in our gardens and shrubber¬ 
ies that we are likely to overlook the ex¬ 
istence of three native species with yel¬ 
low blooms. The latter are not' by any 
means as showy as the widely planted 
exotic kinds, but at least one of our na¬ 
tives has the merits of neat habit and 
handsome foliage to offset its floral short¬ 
comings. This is Diervilla sessilifolia, 
native to the .Carolina and Tennessee 
mountains, but hardy even in Canada. 
Botanists now place all Weigelas under 
the generic name Diervilla, but nursery¬ 
men generally retain the former name 
when listing the familiar kinds. We have 
grown D. sessilifolia since 1899, the plant 
having been supplied by Harlan P. Kel¬ 
sey, Kawana, N. C. It now forms an 
attractive rounded shrub something over 
four feet high and about as broad, covered 
throughout the growing season with 
cheerful deep green foliage, and from 
June until late August with dense clusters 
of sulphur-yellow blooms, each contain¬ 
ing a spot of reddish brown in the throat. 
The effect is bright, clean and pleasing 
at all times, the foliage keeping in 
good condition later than almost any 
other deciduous _ shrub. Our many 
attempts to hybridize this fine native 
species with Asiatic kinds have been thus 
far without result, the few seeds secured 
having all failed to grow. We consider 
D. sessilifolia a worthy shrub to grow in 
any collection of native plants. An¬ 
other yellow-flowered species, D. Lonicera 
or trifida, has a much more northern 
range, being found from Kentuckv to 
Newfoundland, and is of smaller growth 
and less neat in appearance and habit than 
D. sessilifolia. The yellow flowers are 
arranged in smaller clusters, and come in 
early June. D. rivularis, found in Geor¬ 
gia. appears to be closely allied to D. 
sessilifolia, but has downy leaves and 
branchlets. The yellow flowers are ar¬ 
ranged in panicles at the ends of the 
branches. This species appears to be lit¬ 
tle known and planted in its native coun¬ 
try. but is favorably regarded in Europe. 
The Best Oriental Weigelas. —The 
fine garden Weigelas have been derived 
from several species of Diervilla native to 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
China and Corea, such as D. florida, D. 
grandiflora, D. Japonica and D. flori- 
bunda. Nothing much better in its way 
than the old-fashioned Weigela rosea has 
been found. It is typically quite near the 
first-named species, and forms a tall, 
spreading shrub, fairly wreathed in June 
with large clusters of pale and deep rose- 
colored flowers. A worthy companion is 
the variety Candida, of more upright 
habit, with pure white blooms. Lavallei 
is an old and much planted variety of D. 
floribunda. and makes a fine contrast 
with Candida, as its flowers are deep 
crimson. Groenewegeni, which we be¬ 
lieve originated in a Russian nursery, it 
evidently a variety or hybrid of D. grand¬ 
iflora. It is a very tall grower with pro¬ 
fuse large blooms, red outside and yel¬ 
lowish white within. Eva Rathke is a 
charming new variety, partaking of the 
characteristics of D. Japonica. It is the 
most abundant bloomer of all. beginning 
when quite small. The shade is clear 
light crimson, so distinct as to stand out 
from all others. It is now considered the 
finest Weigela in cultivation. Conquete 
with large purple crimson flowers, said to 
be the largest of all varieties, appears to 
be rarely offered in this country. A 
number of early flowering varieties, with 
large pink flowers marked with yellow in 
the throat are cultivated in Europe under 
the general name of Diervilla praecox. 
They appear to be derived from a Jap¬ 
anese form of D. florida. There are sev¬ 
eral varieties of Weigela with yellow or 
white-margined leaves derived from the 
various species. They are generally 
dwarf and of slow growth, far more 
ornamental in their foliage than their in¬ 
florescence. One little-known species from 
Siberia and North China, with yellowish 
flowers, remains. It is Diervilla Midden- 
dorfiana, a dwarf shrub, seldom over three 
feet high. The flowers are not particular¬ 
ly numerous, but of good size; yellowr 
white with orange and purple marking in 
the throat. It does not appear to have 
given origin to any characteristic garden 
varieties. Propagation of all Diervillas 
is by means of cuttings of either green 
or hard wood or by suckers. The seeds 
are very minute, and need care in plant-' 
ing, but usually succeed well when prop¬ 
erly sown in Spring. 
Protection for Herbaceous Plants.— 
Really hardy herbaceous plants with 
fleshy crowns are usually better off with¬ 
out surface covering of any kind. Win¬ 
ter mulches, whether of manure or litter, 
favor the depredations of mice that often 
work unpleasant havoc under such cover¬ 
ings. Decayed crown and roots also may 
occur from the constant retention of mois¬ 
ture. Generally speaking, the natural foli¬ 
age, as it dies down, is best protection, 
and as a rule it should not be removed 
until new growth starts in Spring. Even 
such relatively tender plants as the Kni- 
phofias or .Torch lilies, better known as 
Tritomas, may survive severe Winters 
with no protection other than their droop¬ 
ing foliage, while if the leaves, are cut off. 
the stubs form veritable channels to con¬ 
duct water, to the crowns. Weak or 
newly set plants of even the hardiest 
varieties may, however, need protection 
from the heaving effects of frost rather 
than from direct action of cold, and then 
coverings of coarse litter or slender ever¬ 
green boughs do good service. 
Another class of doubtfully hardy plants 
remain, such as are well able to endure 
the biting cold of midwinter when entirely 
dormant, but succumb to the rapid alter 
nations of frost and thaw in March or 
early April after growth has started. The 
very desirable new day lily, Hemerocallis 
aurantiaca major, recently described in 
these columns, belongs to this class, at 
least until very thoroughly established. 
Many losses of this fine plant have been 
reported, especially from the Middle West. 
Charles Betscher, Canal Dover, Ohio, an 
enthusiastic grower of fine herbaceous 
plants, has had painful experience, but 
now successfully protects his susceptible 
varieties by the method shown in diagram 
Mr. Betscher says in explanation: 
A groat, many people do not succeed in 
keeping H. aurantiaca major. I lay two 
pieces of wood—about 2! x 3 inches in sec¬ 
tion—along the row. one in each side; then 
lay a hoard on top to cover tilA plants 
nicely, then put in several shovelfuls of 
soil to make a conical heap or ridge over 
all. When thus covered when severe cold 
begins they come through the Winter better 
than in greenhouse or cold frame. They can 
stand a cold of 30 degrees below zero, but 
not the wet and thawing in Spring. This 
method will protect many plants that other¬ 
wise would be failures. Other plants do well 
without covering with soil : just put on the 
board and slope the soil below so that, water 
cannot stand about the crowns. 1 do not 
like hilling up plants with plain earth as' 
well as these two methods. 
It will be seen that' danger from mice 
still remains, the air spaces under the 
board affording them good cover, but 
we should think some poisoned gram 
placed near the crowns before covering 
would abate the nest. w. v. f. 
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