ABBREVIATIONS USED IN ABOVE PLANTING PLAN FOR THE ROSE GARDEN 
T. Tea; H. T. Hybrid Tea; H. P. Hybrid Perpetual; P. Pernettiana Hybrids; B. Briar; H. B. Hybrid Briar; D. P. Dwarf Polyantha; H. R. Hybrid 
Rugosa; PROP. Provence or Cabbage Rose, hybrids from R. centifolia; MOSS. Moss Roses, hybrids from R. centifolia; GALL. Rosa Gallica; 
DAM. Damask, from R. damascaena; H. IV. Hybrid Wichuraiana; S. R. Scotch Rose; I. R. Irish Rose; N. S. Native Species; C. S. Chinese Species 
(Plan by Hammond Sadler, L. A.) 
COME TO GARDEN CITY IN ROSE TIME 
An Invitation to Our Friends 
appeal of the Rose is universal and irresistible. 
mils nr Some, indeed plenty, there are, who deny the appeal of 
one or more of almost all others of our popular garden 
tp|r(^ flowers; but to the Rose all give allegiance. 
But the term Rose embraces an enormous lot of plants. The 
records give us some twelve thousand or more names of which, 
naturally, a large proportion are now out of cultivation, but all 
the same there are thousands of garden varieties, Hybrid Teas, 
Hybrid Perpetuals, the various Ramblers, Wichuraiana included, 
that might be gathered into one garden. Such a garden was in 
fact created in the outskirts of Paris, France, by M. Jules 
Gravereau at L’Hay. Here the Rose was sanctified in a truly 
grand manner, and the species and their groups of deriva¬ 
tives all lined in sequence so as to form a graphic plan, as 
it were, of the Rose family from its origin to its present day 
perfections. 
Nothing on such a scale has been attempted elsewhere. And 
indeed such a sanctuary of the Rose must in the very nature of 
things be the life work of an individual. The Rose in America 
has often been criticized as not being entirely adaptable to the 
climate. That this was so in the past is probably largely true, 
but things have greatly changed and the American garden has 
found fitting varieties and is constantly finding and producing 
more. 
To the average person the word, Rose, conjures to the mind 
only the large improved kinds without a passing thought of the 
original species from which they have been derived. Until quite 
recently these improvements were all of European origin, but 
latterly American growers, (it has been told in recent volumes of 
The Garden Magazine), have been contributing much in mak¬ 
ing the Rose adaptable to our own conditions. But of the earlier 
classifications there are varieties that have won for themselves 
an enduring place in the minds of the gardeners of America 
and so in the garden of The Garden Magazine a Rose garden 
has been made that would serve as an epitome of all that is best 
in Roses in the widest garden sense. 
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