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The 7-ugosas stand first in the list of good 
hedge roses. They reach a height of 6' to 
9' and their foliage is especially thick and 
attractive 
Silver Moon, a superb hardy climber, is 
white with yelloivish stamens. Its deli¬ 
cately fragrant blossoms. 4" in diameter, 
are borne on strong stems 12" to 18" long 
Over the outside of the moss rose buds is 
a curious moss-like covering which adds 
to their attractiveness. Above is Gloire 
de Mosses 
THE EVER ESSENTIAL ROSE 
Is More Worth While Today than Ever Before 
—New Types and Varieties and How to Care for Them 
F. F. ROCKWELL 
I T is unnecessary to enter any special plea 
for the rose. Since the dawn of ro¬ 
mance and poetry hers has been the first 
place, not only in literature, in lore, lyric 
and lay, but in popular fancy and the affec¬ 
tion of many as well. 
In ancient Greece the rose was sacred to 
Aphrodite—who, by the way, was a femin¬ 
ist of parts, being the Goddess of Gardens 
along with her many other social, religious 
and irreligious activities. And the rose has 
been the most international of all flowers. 
It has graced the songs of the immortals in 
all climes. At the hand of the tent-maker 
in a Persian garden at Naishapur, or where 
Sappho touched her lyric lyre, or some 
Gaelic bard entwined it in his melodies, the 
rose has lent itself to the spirit of a people. 
Ranging from the heavily scented, dense¬ 
ly folded petals of 
deep yellow or 
dark crimson— 
gold and blood !— 
to the frail but in¬ 
expressibly charm¬ 
ing beauty of the 
most delicately 
flushed or purest 
vdiite single form, 
it is small wonder 
that the appeal of 
the rose is univer¬ 
sal ; that in its in¬ 
finite variety there 
is a flower not only 
for every person, 
but for every 
mood ; and that 
while, in popular 
enthusiasm, other 
flowers may come 
and go, the rose 
loses not in favor, but goes on forever. 
Ancient as the rose is, however, I think 
it is no exaggeration to say that within the 
last two decades more has been done to 
develop and perfect it, and make it uni¬ 
versally available, than in all the preceding 
centuries. We have not yet reached the 
end. In fact, it is the well considered opin¬ 
ion of many of the best informed rosarians 
that at present we are only at the beginning 
of a new era in the development of this 
wonderful flower, and that the next few 
years will see even more remarkable results 
achieved than ever before. 
Among garden roses, while we have 
forms and colors which leave little to be 
desired, there is much room for improve¬ 
ment in hardiness, in disease resistance, in 
good growth of foliage, and in continuity 
of flowering. 
Color; fragrance; 
flower (size, color, 
fragrance, form 
and strength of 
stem) ; ever-bloom¬ 
ing tendency; char- 
a c t e r of foliage ; 
and hardiness—all 
these character¬ 
istics have to be 
considered in any 
variety, so even the 
layman will readily 
see that it is a tre¬ 
mendous task for 
the hybridizer to 
breed a flower that 
will score any¬ 
where near a hun¬ 
dred on all of these 
points. While rose- 
breeding has been. 
One of the finest 
of the Wichurai- 
ana hybrid s — 
Milky Way 
Ophelia is a splen¬ 
did hybrid tea, 
s almo n-flesh in 
color 
The baby ram¬ 
blers can be groion 
in pots or out¬ 
doors 
