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season, the garden sees it commonly as a cream-white pillar 
Rose. 
Pax, the last of the trio, is quite different from the others 
and appears to show more of the influence of its other parent. 
Like Thisbe, it grows best on heavy soil and makes magnificent 
ten-foot canes with large red thorns and the most beautiful 
bronze green foliage, foliage as fine as that of Zepherine Drouhin, 
another neglected Climber. The foliage is mildew proof and has 
shown no spot so far. The flowers are borne in two types of 
clusters, those from the laterals on the old canes may have as 
many as five blooms though the blossoms are more often in 
threes, but the clusters which crown the shorter canes rising 
from the crown of the plant in spring are widely branched and 
often have as many as twenty large flowers. 
Unlike the other varieties, where the flowers are close together 
in the heads, the individual blooms of Pax have long stems 
similar to those of Hybrid-teas. The buds are long and 
slender and of a delicate lemon white color. They open into 
rather flat white flowers something like those of Silver Moon 
but of rather warmer coloring as the bases of the stamens 
are tinted with a reddish color, a very minor detail but one 
which makes an appreciable difference in the effect. The one 
regret in praising this Rose is that it lacks a fine fragrance— 
the scent is there but it is very faint and does not fill the air 
as with Thisbe. 
At the time of writing, October first, 1923, both Pax and 
Thisbe bore another crop of buds to mature before frosc put an 
end to the year’s bloom. 
TWO TRAILING ROSES OF MERIT 
W. C. EGAN 
Warranted to Withstand the Rigors of Illinois Winters Along the Shore of Lake Michigan 
f N Y Rose of merit that will stand the rigors of a Highland 
Park winter is a welcome addition to our gardens. The 
great majority of people will not, or cannot afford the 
proper winter protection to the tender varieties, and 
must therefore depend upon those that possess an ironclad 
constitution. Rosa rugosa and its hybrids give us a hardy 
“bush" form, as do the old-fashioned June Roses, the Northern 
Cherokee (Rosa altaica), and the new Chinese Rosa Hugonis. 
We have no really hardy climbers or trailing Roses that will 
stand the Egandale winters—Tausendschon, Dorothy Perkins, 
and Paul's Scarlet Climber will stand most winters if grown 
farther back from the inlluence of Lake Michigan. Rosa 
wichuraiana stands some winters here. 
The new trailing Rose Max Graf, a chance seedling appear¬ 
ing in a Connecticut nursery is a Rose of merit and one 
that will in time be used extensively in landscape work. It 
is a handsome Rose, in or out of bloom, for its glossy foliage 
is free from mildew, black-spot, or insect attack. It blooms in 
clusters- three to nine buds in a cluster, opening successionally, 
thus giving a long season of bloom. The flowers are single, 2f 
inches in diameter, a bright pink with yellow stamens. It is an 
ideal Rose for planting on banks or hanging down over a wall. 
I N 1888, Jackson Dawson of the Arnold Arboretum,commenced 
the hybridization of hardy Roses, using principally Rosa ru¬ 
gosa and R. wichuraiana in connection with the Hybrid-Perpetual 
General Jacqueminot. The latter seems to have been a favorite 
with others also as a parent plant, being one of the hardiest of 
its class and generally transmitting its exquisite color and its 
fragrance. Prof. Budd’s Rose N. E. Hanson, and Dawson’s 
Arnold came from this cross. In 1900 Dawson produced 
Lady Duncan. It is a spreading semi-pendent plant possessing 
attractive, glistening foliage and bearing flowers somewhat 
similar to the pink of Max Graf. Dawson sent me a plant 
before he named it. Understanding it to be of a pendent nature 
1 thought I would give it something to droop over—and con¬ 
structed a hoop held up by four legs standing about three feet 
high, but in a year or so I saw that it did not like the arrangement 
and. unharnessing it, allowed it to proceed at its own sweet 
will. It commenced to improve at once and now is some twelve 
feet in diameter. 
Why the name Lady Duncan, one suggesting an English 
origin, was given to a Rose of American creation and of Japanese 
parentage was always a puzzle to me. 1 sought information 
from Prof. Charles S. Sargent who kindly gave it. It appears 
that Dawson lived for several years as gardener with the Dove 
family of Andover, Mass. One of the daughters married a 
Scotchman named Duncan who was the younger son of a man 
in the peerage. Later the father and elder brother of this man 
died and he succeeded to a title. Dawson called the Rose Lady 
Duncan although the lady herself never was such, as she died 
before the succession. 
AS THE ROSE LADY DUNCAN GROWS AT EGANDALE 
Twelve feet in diameter, this trailing Rose successfully withstands the rigors of Illinois winters and 
throws abundant pink bloom season after season; photographed at Mr. Egan’s home in June of 1923 
