ROSES THAT DO DOUBLE DUTY 
CHARLES H. TOTTY 
Select Varieties That Adapt Themselves Equally to 
Garden Conditions and to Cultivation Under Glass 
B OSES that are good both under glass and outdoors in 
the garden are to be had, although all kinds do not so 
behave. Freedom of bloom, vigorous growth, ease of 
culture are desirable characteristics and are all to be 
found among the present-day Hybrid-teas which embrace 
many of the finest Roses now in cultivation. The average man 
is not so much interested in what family or group a Rose be¬ 
longs to as in finding one that is “free” and continuous, frag¬ 
rant, and blessed with a minimum of disease. 
We can all recall the marvelous sight the June Roses pre¬ 
sented when in full bloom—such kinds as Ulrich Brunner, Mrs. 
John Laing, and others of this type, but to-day they are often 
relegated to the vegetable garden or some other out-of-the-way 
corner because after their wealth of bloom is gone they present 
a particularly pitiful spectacle, covered as they usually are, 
with mildew and spot. The up-to-date grower now plants 
such sorts as Columbia, Madame Butterfly, Hoosier Beauty, 
White Killarney, etc., etc., which will not only give a good crop 
of flowers in June, but also furnish scattering bloom all through 
the season, and mostly will also give a fine crop in September 
and up until the first frost; in fact, the flowers of Hoosier 
Beauty are usually produced in profusion in late September 
and are finer then than at any other season of the year. 
M Y PERSONAL selection of a dozen varieties that may 
justly be termed “double-duty” Roses, is as follows: 
Pink: Columbia, Madame Butterfly, Premier. 
White: Double White Killarney, Angelus, Kaiserin Augusta 
Victoria. 
Red: Hoosier Beauty, Francis Scott Key, Hadley. 
Yellow: Mrs. Aaron Ward, Golden Ophelia, Lady Hillingdon, 
Souvenir de Claudius Pernet. 
The list of desirables could be increased considerably if one 
included the fine Hybrid-teas that do well outdoors, but may 
not be satisfactory inside; however, our present purpose is 
to emphasize the dual capacity kinds to be relied on. 
Madame Butterfly in the pink section could almost always be 
classed as a bronze when grown outdoors though indoors it is 
always a lovely shade of pink and is displacing its parent 
Ophelia; it is charming in either color. 
Other additions to the pink list recommended for outdoor 
growing would be Lady Alice Stanley and Jonhkeer Mock. 
The only objection to the former is from a forcing standpoint— 
the flower is a little too heavy for the stem in midwinter, though 
the delightful fragrance offsets this to quite a large extent. 
Jonhkeer Mock needs lots of heat to do well under glass in 
December, which is why 1 did not mention it as one of the first 
three of the double-duty Roses. As an improved La France, 
outdoors, it is superb, unless one happens to have a very wet 
location, when many of the flowers rot instead of developing. 
America, the novelty for introduction this season in the pinx 
section has already proved itself worth while, and will I think, 
jump to the top of the list when generally distributed. Pink 
seems to be the predominating color in Roses, and another va¬ 
riety highly thought of in many sections is Radiance, but it is 
hardly “free” enough for profitable indoor culture. 
White Roses are somewhat under a cloud with the amateur 
who believes that they furnish ideal conditions for the Rose bug. 
Certainly, the bugs are more easily seen on the white than on 
any other color. While 1 do not include Frau Karl Druschki 
among the double-duty sorts, it is the white, par excellence, for 
outdoors. A fact not known by everyone is that when grown as 
a standard it is just as continuous a bloomer as any of the 
Hybrid-teas. It can be handled under glass if established in 
pots and brought in at intervals during the winter. Under 
similar conditions the old-time Hybrid-perpetuals also give 
magnificent results. 
In the red section Francis Scott Key is handicapped by not 
having fragrance, but is a very bold, handsome flower, and al¬ 
ways attracts attention. 
A S TO culture; if the gardener will handle these Hybrid-tea 
l Roses outdoors the way the cultivator handles them in¬ 
doors, he will guarantee for himself an almost continuous crop of 
bloom. We will assume that the Roses have carried through the 
winter or are being newly planted this spring. Cut them back 
vigorously. All of the weak shoots to be cut back close to the 
parent stem and the main stems shortened to six or eight inches, 
excepting in the case of old, well established varieties. This hard 
cutting back may seem unnecessary to the amateur who has not 
studied the subject of pruning, but after the first year’s ex¬ 
perience, he grasps its significance. The Rose flowers on its 
new wood! 
When the first crop of flowers is past, if they have not been 
cut as they developed, the flowering shoots should be pruned 
back leaving not more than two or three good eyes. If this 
process of cutting back be practised to a greater or lesser extent 
all through the season, the plants will keep producing flowering 
shoots, though at no time must so much foliage be removed that 
the balance between the root and top is destroyed, thus giving 
the plant a check. 
After a crop of flowers has been taken from the plants, they 
can be encouraged by the application of liquid fertilizer or a 
mulch that will soak in, and the next flowering will prove as 
abundant as the first. 
The trouble with all of us is that after we have enjoyed a 
luxuriant harvest of Roses and the weather becomes warm, 
work in the garden is not as appealing as earlier in the season, 
consequently the Roses are liable to be neglected to a greater 
or lesser extent. 
THE HISTORY OF THE HADLEY ROSE 
H ADLEY, the Rose which Mr. Blenner selected for the sub¬ 
ject of his picture reproduced in colors on the cover of this 
month’s magazine, was introduced in 1914 and won for its 
originator, Alexander W. Montgomery, Jr., the American Rose 
Society’s gold medal. It still maintains a front rank position 
as a dark red Rose for cultivation under glass. In the garden 
it has also given a very good account of itself, and belongs to 
that small group of Roses that fill the two purposes satis¬ 
factorily. The deep color of the flower to a degree pervades 
the entire plant and the foliage has an attractive character 
all its own—being rich green flushed with dull crimson, giv¬ 
ing it a very intense, deep color tone. Under glass, the 
young tender growths are particularly attractive for this 
reason. Mr. Montgomery has other greenhouse Rose suc¬ 
cesses to his credit, notably Mrs. Chas. Russell, Pilgrim, and 
Crusader. 
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