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House & Garden 
Find their Garden Places where 
Stronger Colors Would Not Serve 
ROSES OF YELLOW 
AND ROSES OF GOLD 
GEORGIA TORREY DRENNAN 
Marechal Niel presents a 
7-are combination of superb 
blooms of great fragrance 
borne on a climbing bush 
To the yellow Scotch briar one looks for an 
abundance of charmingly simple blossoms. The 
bushes are hardy, low growing and compact 
shades of yellow in the two roses make 
pleasing variety, on the bush as well as in 
the vase. The Cochet roses are hardy every¬ 
where if given some protection. The same 
may safely be said of the Kaiserin Augusta 
Victoria and Perle von Godesberg. They 
are so hardy, vigorous, and free in habit, 
that I wonder why both groups are not 
recognized as hybrid teas. 
Another good yellow is Etoile de Lyon, 
a very beautiful tea rose. It is much more 
hardy than the equally beautiful variety 
known as Perle de Jardins. 
The teas and hybrid teas now number 
over forty handsome roses in all shades of 
yellow, except deep orange. William Allen 
Richardson, the climbing tea, is the only 
deep orange except the Persian Yellow rose. 
It is several shades deeper than Marechal 
Niel, which is a clear cloth-of-gold yellow, 
and is a free flowering and beautiful rose 
at all seasons, though excelling itself in 
autumn. The orange yellow, by the law 
of the radiation of heat, intensifies and 
deepens as summer wanes and the nights 
One of the finest of all 
roses of whatever color is 
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, 
a lemon-white hybrid tea 
O FFHAND, what color subcon¬ 
sciously suggests itself to you 
when someone mentions roses? Pink 
or red, isn’t it?—“red as a rose,” you 
know. At any rate, I don’t believe it is 
yellow, unless some particular associa¬ 
tion has fixed that color in your mind. 
Yet roses do come in yellow, and though 
their presence in the garden is relatively 
uncommon, there are settings in which 
their various shades are far preferable 
to the stronger pinks and reds, or even 
to the pure whites and flesh tints. 
There are yellow roses and yellow 
roses, to be sure. They are fewer in 
number than those of any other single 
color, yet more numerous than any one 
garden requires. 
The Maman Cochet group is strik¬ 
ingly hardy. The five colors — white, 
pink, red of two shades, and yellow— 
are alike in strength, vigor and perfect 
beauty. They are persistent bloomers 
from spring till the last cold autumn 
days ; and they merit their reputation of 
being the most distinguished group of 
roses of recent years in Europe and 
America. Perhaps the most distinct 
and beautiful of the whole group is 
Yellow Maman Cochet. 
The Cochet and Other Yellows 
The positive statement has been made 
that of the hundreds of roses available 
in this country the Cochets are the best. 
This does not quite coincide with my own 
opinion which is based upon the roses as 
they bloom in my own and my friends’ gar¬ 
dens. Not that I dispute one word of praise 
for the Cochet roses. They deserve all that 
can be said in their favor—and even more 
than has yet been said in praise of the clear, 
deep, golden Yellow Maman Cochet—but 
I would not accord them undivided meed 
of praise in all respects. 
There are other constant, hardy, free and 
beautiful yellow roses, closely in competi¬ 
tion with the Cochets. Everybody knows 
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria as the hardiest of 
all the hybrid teas, and also as one of the 
most perfectly beautiful creamy white roses 
in existence. But perhaps everybody is not 
yet well acquainted with the more recent 
Yellow Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, or Perle 
von Godesberg. It is a superb yellow rose 
of clear canary shading to saffron. It has 
all the good points of Kaiserin Augusta Vic¬ 
toria and in my estimation is almost as fine 
as the Yellow Cochet. The differences of 
grow frosty and cold; the roses, roped 
and garlanded by hundreds and hun¬ 
dreds, are more and more striking and 
effective until the killing cold weather 
comes and ends their season. 
The Hardiest Sorts 
The very hardiest yellow roses, such 
as are free and florescent in far north¬ 
ern sections, are spring or early sum¬ 
mer bloomers. The yellow rambler, 
Aglaia, is a deep yellow, of free and 
hardy growth and for six weeks a most 
wonderful bloomer. One thing in favor 
of this and other once-blooming roses 
is that for their brief season of flower¬ 
ing they are much more profuse than 
the constant bloomers, for their re¬ 
sources are drawn upon for all the 
roses of the year at one and the same 
time. Aglaia is as profuse as the crim¬ 
son rambler and in all essentials the 
same rose except in color. 
It would hardly be just to the rose 
family and certainly not fair treatment 
to those interested in reports from the 
fairy land of sun-gold roses, to omit 
the almost forgotten Austrian, the Per¬ 
sian Yellow and Harrison’s Yellow. 
These are regarded as fine flowers, very 
hardy and long-lived; but so many new 
and attractive roses of improved strains 
are engaging attention that the Aus¬ 
trian and Persian are not generally 
known and grown. 
Of the trio, Harrison’s Yellow is the most 
common. It is a light primrose yellow and 
single flowered. It bears a resemblance to 
the sweet briars, but the russet glands on 
the under side of the leaves do not secrete 
the aromatic oil that imparts the fragrance 
of the latter. 
Harrison’s Yellow has no fragrance of 
foliage and not much perfume of flower. 
Its single blossoms are as light and airy as 
butterflies — I remember their blooming 
early in the spring with daffqdils and jon¬ 
quils. All about were peach trees in their 
own shade of pink; sweet scented plum 
trees in snowy white; and dogwood, red 
bud and maple making the wild woods gay. 
Yes, this rose was one of the components 
of all gardens of the Old South. 
Persian Yellow was long considered the 
deepest yellow rose in cultivation. It has 
more substance than Harrison’s, and is of a 
deep chrome yellow. The two roses come 
and go together, blooming for a period of 
about four weeks. 
