Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-28
FEATURES or THE DERBY.

and it is common for people in Santa
Barbara to be photographed sitting on a
curve made by one Of these trunk
branches. At Riverside there Is d La
Marque rose bush, fourteen years Old,
that has twisted its hugh branches SER
pent-lke about the trunk of NAM
mouth pepper-trce and followed each
limb OF the tree out TO the end, 50 that
in the weeks Of rose blooming the tree
looks like a stupendous bouquet OF green
fiecked with tens Of thousands Of white
roses. Climbing roses that bear 1900 ana
1900 blossoms at a time are common
I'm every locality in Southern California.
Some Of the bushes about ten years old
in Pomona Valley have for several years
borne annually from 5000 10 5000 bios
SONS at "A time.
There is in Ventura a magnificent
specimen Of a white La Marque rose. 1t
was planted from a cutting in Novem-
Der, 1876 and has been trained over
large arbor. It's main stem, Immediately
above the ground, measures two feet
nine inches in circumference. TWO
branches start from a.. and each is two
feet, one inch I'm circumference. 1t has
been cut back and pruned heavily each
year, and last year over wagon LOAD
OF prunings was taken away from it.
For several years the girls and oys OF
Ventura have counted the number OF
blossoms every March and April. In five
years they have annually been over li,Vp
and last April they numbered H,6il
Botanists say they can discover no signs
Of degeneracy due to old age or. rare
fccundity I'm the wonderful plant
Every winter there come 10 Southern
California tourists, who are surprised TO
ind that the rose tree is not fancy
Nfsst f1sFU
/ thousands of literal rose trees in this
semi-tropical land The rose tree Is an
achievement OF the florist. Ibis made
by budding a rosebud on the stock of a
dogwood bush. The stock becomes the
trunk of the rose tree. ANY rosebud may
be easily grated or budded on dogwood.
and in regions where there is no freezing
weather a plant so budded thrives with
very little care. Dogwood bushes are ma
tives Of the island of Jamaica. and their
wood is very hard. There are few rose
| trees in the old Spanish villages OF South
orn California as Cucamonga, san Fer
nando, and San Bernardino. that have
/ trunks nine and ten inches in diameter
| and ten feet high. Mime. Modjeska says
she knows nothing in Horticulture more
! gorgeous than one OF these large rose
! trees when in full bloom. She has several
4
! tiago canon for which she paid
| $50 each. and then had trans
ported there. earth and all about
/ the roots. from localities miles away. 1t
is a frequent thing for tourists in this
region TO sit grouped in picnic fashion
under this large rose tree in full bios
som, and 10 be photographed. The very
I largest rose tree is near the famous old
/ Franciscan mission at San Diego. 1t is
fully 80 years old, and has trunk twelve
inches In diameter, and a head as large
as big load of hay, for it has been
pruned many times to keep IL from
tearing away at the trunk. 1t looks
when in bloom. like an enormous bouquet
of thousands of pink roses amid mass
OF green. The Princess Louise sent a
branch from the old monarch Of the rose
world 10 royal friend in Spain, wher
she was in California IN 1851