s 
Few flowers can boast of buds as beautijul 
as the developed flowers. Yet some varie¬ 
ties of roses, such as Sylvia, can make this 
claim 
Do not forget the baby ramblers. As bed¬ 
ding roses of low growth they hold a place 
which nothing else can hope to fill as suc¬ 
cessfully 
Bridesmaid is large and of a clear rose pink. 
Notable for its qualities as a cut flower. 
An additional advantage is that it blooms 
well indoors 
A SCORE of BEST ROSES —and A FEW OVER 
Not Every Foot of Earth Need Be Given Over to Wartime Vegetable Crops—Let Roses Have a Place, for the 
Mental as well as the Physical Forces Must Be Nourished 
S OMETIMES I wonder if it is the Queen 
of Flowers—wonder whether we would 
choose the rose above all others if some emis¬ 
sary of Nature were to bring us word that only 
one flower would be produced, henceforth and 
forevermore. Not that it greatly matters, per¬ 
haps, whether it actually is or not. Millions 
of roses will be grown, and millions of people 
will love the rose beyond all other flowers; and 
so there will never be a dearth of roses in the 
world, which is the main 
thing! 
There is a dearth of 
roses, however, in many 
gardens—even in some 
rose gardens. And this 
is a wrong thing. No 
garden should be lack¬ 
ing in them; and rose 
gardens should be smoth¬ 
ered in them from June 
to snow-flying time. This 
is an exacting demand, 
without a doubt. Not 
that roses from June to 
frost are an impossibil¬ 
ity, by any means; on 
the contrary, it is simply 
a matter of careful plan¬ 
ning, just as so many 
other garden features are. 
It can never be said 
too often or too emphat¬ 
ically that the roses to 
rely on are in the class 
distinguished as Hybrid 
Teas; and I would ad¬ 
vise the beginner in rose 
lore to learn the class of 
every rose as he learns 
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its name, so that he will never be mistaken as 
to class. Every season brings new and won¬ 
derful hybrids, and in the flush of enthusiasm 
one is likely to overlook this very important 
question of classification. 
As a matter of fact, the rose has so long 
been a subject of ingenious hybridization that 
it is practically impossible today to assign 
many of the different kinds to definite par¬ 
entage. The great and commoner class known 
as Hybrid Perpetuals is made up of roses of 
mixed parentage, but practically all of the 
hardy or “perpetual” type—that is, the type 
that is like any other shrub and requires no 
special protection in winter, but lives and 
grows perpetually. The “perpetual”, in other 
words, has to do with the reliability of the 
plant rather than its habit of bloom. All 
Hybrid Perpetuals may be set down as hardy 
and therefore not in need of protection in our 
country. 
At the opposite ex¬ 
treme is the Tea rose— 
or tea scented rose— 
which is as invariably 
not hardy, excepting in 
the South or in Califor¬ 
nia. Between the two 
stand the Hybrid Teas, 
many of which are hardy 
enough not to need pro¬ 
tection in the latitude of 
New York, being the 
offspring of the hardy 
Hybrid Perpetuals and 
the Teas, and having 
been developed toward 
hardiness as far as pos¬ 
sible. 
These are the three 
principal groups with 
which the rose grower 
should familiarize him¬ 
self. Of course there are 
many other kinds; and 
of these many not infre¬ 
quently enter into the 
production of a rose that 
is finally classified as a 
Hybrid Tea or a Hybrid 
Sunburst is a superb Hybrid Tea. The 
color is a rich cadmium yellow with 
orange yellow in the center 
Rosalind is a splendid pink, beauti¬ 
fully formed. Although comparatively 
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