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The Altaia form oj the Scotch rose is a 
good shrub. Its foliage renders it at¬ 
tractive even when not in bloom 
Using Roses As Shrubs 
{Continued from page 100) 
to ten feet in a few years. Its white 
flowers are in great clusters, and are 
followed by good-looking “heps” or 
fruits. To get a wonderful odor effect, 
the Sweetbrier rose {R. rubiginosa) is 
indispensable, but as it is “leggy”, it 
ought to be planted with Multiflora or 
some other rose that keeps itself well 
covered with foliage. 
Any landscape architect who is worth 
while will know of the beautiful roses 
that may be used in the shrubbery bor¬ 
der, along the driveways, or to tie the 
house to the grounds. Warren H. Man¬ 
ning, who has worked well not only in 
gardens but in the planning of parks, 
insists that many of the wild roses 
should be used in broad landscape 
plantings. He includes the Sweetbrier, 
the Prairie rose, the old-fashioned cin¬ 
namon rose and the cabbage rose in his 
list of those subjects that will help. He 
is right in his effort to make more 
people realize how valuable and how 
beautiful are these wild trouble-proof 
native forms, if properly placed. 
At the old Van Cortlandt Manor gar¬ 
den up along the Hudson, roses have 
flourished as shrubs for a century. 
There are the old Damask forms and 
others to admonish me that some gar¬ 
den-makers had rose wisdom three or 
four generations ago. When my mind 
swings to the Federal City and I realize 
how a relatively modem hybrid tea 
rose. Radiance, assumes a lovely shrub 
form in Washington, I see another pos¬ 
sibility for climates no more austere 
than that of Maryland. 
Many of the climbing roses make 
beautiful hedges when planted so they 
may sprawl over a suitable support. 
American Pillar and Silver Moon, for 
e.xample, will provide substantial foliage 
and superb flowers, and such thorns as 
to make the hedge entirely definite. 
For a dainty barrier, a sort of bower 
protection, plant no farther north than 
Pennsylvania the exquisite Aviateur 
Bleriot, which will provide good foliage 
and buds that are both sweet and very 
beautiful. 
There are good things coming for 
those who are wise enough to get away 
from dependence upon the rose bed. 
That canny worker. Dr. W. Van Fleet, 
of the Department of Agriculture, is 
{Continued on page 106) 
What conventional shrub can be handsomer and more effective 
than this luxuriant mass of Rugosa roses, beautiful throughout the 
growing season? 
