H ouse and Garden 
ROSA SI’INOSISSIMA, EGANDALE, 1905 
name, and have written to the leading rose growers within our 
knowledge, but have failed to secure any trace of the rose. We 
have a fine hardy garden, but have to contend in our location with 
great ignorance of hardy plants. The florists claim that there is 
not sufficient demand to justify the time and care for tl eir propa¬ 
gation. If you could give me the address of any firm where I could 
secure this rose, 1 would deeply appreciate it. 1 know that you 
must be a busy man and are no doubt much annoyed by similar 
requests, but we would deeply appreciate the courtesy. 
We are expecting to pass through Chicago in ]uly or August and 
desire to ask you whether we might have the privilege of looking 
at your grounds. We are in a way familiar with them from var¬ 
ious magazine views and articles, and have been deeply interested. 
This question of a hardy garden is an absorbing one to us, and ore. 
that presents many difficulties in a city where tender bedding plants 
are the rule. We have striven for years to secure a really worthy 
collection of shrubs and plants but feel that our garden is still in 
the embryo. We hope, my wife and I, not to annoy you in any way, 
but you have indirectly been such a help in the past, that we have 
presumed to ask this favor. C. B. S. 
Rosa Altaica is listed in the catalogue of the Elliott Nursery 
Co., German Nat. Bank. Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Elliott is 
not one to overpraise the virtues of any plant, and his extensive ex¬ 
plorations among the European nurseries give unusual opportuni¬ 
ties for the"observation of everything cultivated, yet he describes 
this plant as “one of the loveliest roses in cultivation” and again 
says “no description can do justice to this rose.” This is true in 
part of his description where he says, “large, single, yellowish- 
white flowers produced in the greatest profusion.” 
I would call them paper white. In a catalogue issued some 
years ago by the Reading Nursery, Reading, Mass, under the 
misleading name of R. grandiflora , it is described as having 
“light green and finely cut foliage, and large, purest white flowers. 
About the same time the Shady Hill Nursery Co., Boston, had it 
as a novelty, and again under the name of R. gratidiflora describ¬ 
ing it as follows—“1 he flowers are pure white and are the largest 
of the single roses being nearly four inches across. I have seen a 
catalogue issued since the above by one of these houses where the 
proper name “Altaica” is given to it. 
W. C. E. 
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