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GARDENING IN THE SOUTHWEST 
coarse at best, and often wither and turn yellow without open¬ 
ing, and the hybrids show a strong tendency to mildew. Of those 
grown here are the red and pink F. J. Grootendorst, Conrad Fer¬ 
dinand Meyer, Rugosa Rubra, Rosea Parfum de PHay and Amelie 
GravereauXy the latter two having the unpleasant characteristic 
common to the class, of turning from red to a sickly purple. 
Types of 
Specie 
Roses 
The Specie, or wild types, furnish some of the loveliest of the 
Spring-blooming shrubs. Hugonis, the wild rose of China, 
Jhtp with its sweetly-scented, golden-yellow flowers in April, is 
‘ a great favorite, by far the most beautiful of the Spring- 
/ //£ flowering shrubs, needing plenty of room, at least six feet 
square. Moyesi, very similar except in color, is a blood-red 
gem, if it can become safely established. The Cherokee Roses, 
or Rosa Laevigata, have been naturalized in South Texas and 
make bewilderingly beautiful, fountain-like shrubs, with 
white, pink or red blossoms. But their large size and dreaded 
propensity to "sucker" make them rather difficult to handle 
in an average garden. They are better left to naturalistic 
treatment on a large scale, where their effect is tremendous. 
OLD-FASHIONED TYPES 
Except for sentimental reasons, very few of the old-fash¬ 
ioned types (such as the Moss, Gallica and Cabbage Roses) 
seem to be grown in the Southwest, the only one of which 
there is much mention being Blanche Moreau, an old white 
Moss. But almost every garden has a plant or two of that 
fragrant, dark crimson Bengal, Gruss an Teplitz. 
One of the China Roses still grown in the Southwest is 
Hermosa, with its lavender-pink clusters of small flowers on 
a bushy ever-blooming plant. But with so many Polyanthas 
so similar and with much more attractive coloring, it will not 
likely survive another generation, except in educational col¬ 
lections. 
