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Among the New Natural Roses 
(Continued jrom page 66) 
The far reaches of West China give 
us another very different natural rose 
in R. Moyesi, the reddest of wild roses. 
Of the species I will not write, because 
the already accomplished hybrids are so 
superior and so valuable. It is to Dr. 
Van Fleet (who works in the Federal 
Department of Agriculture) that we 
owe “W. M. 5,” not yet named, but 
combining the crimson of Moyesi with 
the white of Wichuraiana in a superb 
and striking flower about two inches 
across, produced in great clusters on a 
husky plant that will climb or work 
into a thick bush as you may want it. 
It is a prize, and it w.ill soon be in 
commerce, I hope. 
Another Van Fleet Creation 
Rosa Soulieana is another of these 
Chinese naturals which contributes good 
qualities to its progeny. Dr. Van Fleet 
has made in his unnamed “W. S. 18” a 
rose blend, if such a word may apply, 
in which Soulieana and Wichuraiana of 
the Orient, odorata as modified in Eu¬ 
rope, and setigera of America combine 
to produce a rose covered in its June 
season with “wonderfully numerous 
pure white single blooms that cover the 
entire plant.” I know it is lovely, for 
my cherished plant of it so proves itself. 
The so-called Scotch or Burnet rose 
is another white beauty. Rosa spino- 
sissima of the Altaica form, sometimes 
called Rosa Altaica, has very large 
white blooms, set off by leaves of bril¬ 
liant green, on a rounded shrub or bush 
that tends to spread out rather than 
up. A most admirable lawn shrub is 
this, meritorious not only for its bloom 
but for its habit and its early and late 
foliage. 
That careful rose-worker, Captain 
George C. Thomas, Jr., has given us 
some lovely roses in the natural or 
single form. His Dr. Huey, with im¬ 
mense flowers of deep scarlet on a 
sturdy semi-climber; his unnamed 
“66 H” which has pink-tipped blooms 
and a primrose center, and also persists 
in repeatedly blooming, and several 
others as good, show appreciation of 
the few-petaled forms. 
The English hybrid tea rose Red Let¬ 
ter Day is not quite single, but nearly 
so. Its blooms are pleasingly irregular 
in form, large in size, and brilliantly 
deep scarlet in color. For the rose- 
garden, not as a shrub, it is a prize, 
and its striking flowers last long when 
cut. 
Of all these newer natural roses I 
think I should prefer, if I had to 
choose, the Walsh series. They are 
climbers of far-reaching power, but are 
readily trained to posts or pillars, or 
intertwined into an informal shrub that 
will stop any passerby when in bloom 
with its sheer arresting beauty. Let 
us begin with the pure white Milky 
Way, the petals of which incurve in 
the most lovely way. Then comes 
Paradise, also large and in unconven¬ 
tional form, the color being a light, not 
pale, pink. Following, Evangeline 
blushes more deeply, and the cluster of 
golden stamens at its heart—as distin¬ 
guishing also all these single roses— 
seems to raise it to a higher power of 
beauty. 
The fullest depth of color is reached 
in Hiawatha, which glows in bright 
carmine crimson, with white centers, 
and lasts long in bloom. 
These four will give garden joy over 
a trellis, on a hedge or fence, up a tree 
or porch. They surely establish the 
charm of the natural roses. 
Culture 
Let me write a word or two of cul¬ 
ture caution about these natural roses. 
They are usually hardy, usually vigor¬ 
ous, usually informal in habit. No es¬ 
pecial care is needed either in planting 
them or for soil, though like all strong¬ 
growing plants, they are better for rich 
soil. The pruning is what I would es¬ 
pecially mention to the amateur, so 
that he does not cut them back like 
hybrid tea and hybrid perpetual roses. 
The blooms come each year from young 
shoots which spring from canes of that 
year or the year before. The long 
shoots of the current year do not bloom 
the same year. They are in prepara¬ 
tion for the next year. 
The pruning, therefore, consists prin¬ 
cipally in cutting out at the base the 
canes of two or more years of age that 
have begun to lose vigor, and in snip¬ 
ping off tips that are in the way. If 
grown to posts or pillars, pruning may 
be more severe, in the way of cutting 
back to six or ten inches the lateral or 
side shoots from the heavy canes. This 
induces a concentration of the flowers 
about these stems. 
These newer natural roses are surely 
worth a place in the garden, in the 
park, along an embankment, over a 
hedge or fence. They are rugged, re¬ 
liable and beautiful. 
The Pipe Organ in the House 
(Continued jrom page 33) 
contributed several millions for a musi¬ 
cal school in Rochester. The organ 
did it! 
The late Mr. Woolworth had a music 
room in his home, where he spent the 
greatest part of his spare moments. 
This room contained a magnificent pipe 
organ, with special lighting effects, spe¬ 
cial musical paintings, which changed 
to suit the mood of the master of the 
house and the compositions which were 
played. 
Of all instruments the pipe organ is 
the most decorative and plastic and 
variable. It is not in a single, adamant 
piece like the piano. It is large, out¬ 
spreading, subject to whim, taste, con¬ 
ditions. While the player’s desk (the 
console) may be anywhere in the house 
—on the floor, up in a loft over the 
balcony, in sight or out of sight of the 
living room, the organ parts may be 
quite separated. While the actual 
speaking parts of the instrument 
(where the player’s demands are 
changed into actual sounds) may be in 
one part of the house, the decorative 
exterior can be in still another place. 
From the keyboard, air is sent to the 
reeds and tubes. A pipe organ is made 
up of many and varying kinds of voices. 
It has not just one quality of tone as 
in the piano where the hammer strikes 
the strings, or as on the violin where 
the bow is drawn across the string, or 
as on the harp, where the fingers pluck 
the strings, or as on the wind instru¬ 
ments, where the air is blown through 
the stops. On the organ all tones are 
approximated—from the hard clanging 
of the chimes to the almost human 
quality of the vox humana. Flute, 
clarionets, ’cellos, basses, oboes are sug¬ 
gested in the organ. Whereas the key 
is depressed by the finger, that same 
note can be played in any timbre or 
quality by indicating the “section” 
which is to speak. Thus it can whisper 
in the pastoral timidity of the oboe or 
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