Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-07-07

various varieties and produce new
sorts. because seeds we-5 the unit
ing Of two plants, while cuttings
We're only the product of one. Rose
culture made more strides in forty
years than it had made IN centuries
before.
Such old favorites as the damosk,
China, French, and Provence roses
were hybridized until they produced
the prototypes of our present great,
nardy June roses, the so-caIled hy-
brid perpetuals, of which familiar
varieties are IN American Beauty,
Gen. Jaequeminot, and Magma Charta.
The American Beauty. which is call
ed Madame Ferdinand Jamain in
France, where it was originated, has
never been eXceIled among red roses
for length Of stem and general no
bility of appearance. Gen. Jaeque-
minot is losing ground now, but only
because it has given start to so
large a progeny finer than itself.
Magma Charta is to this day the
/ fayorite OF the greenhouse people
for forcing to sell in pots.
/ Nearly all the hybrid perpetuals
are perfectly hardy and live through
the winter with little protection. But
their name perpetual is a remark
able misnomer. for once the June
/ festival IS over they seldom bloom
again save for a few chance flow
ers in the early part Of The fall
/ This presented to the Burbanks of
that day the pretty problem of get
ting a rose which should he aag no
BILE and as hardy as their hybrid
lperpetuals. and yet should bloom all
| through the summer.
Tea roses, of which Bride roses
are a type have characteristics pre-
cisely the opposite of the hybrid
iperpetuals. They are not hardy, but
they bloom all through tie summer.
This gave the hybridizers their op-
portunity-to produce ro@e which
should have the ruggedness Of Gen.
Jacqueminot and the productiveness
Of the tea roses.
They seized the opportunity, and
the results made a new epoch in
roses. La France was the prototype
"a gorgeous great silvery red rose.
which sent out strong shoots and
kept on blooming after the great dis
play of June was over. The class
was named the hybrid teas" and
and il has grown till now it is the
biggest and the most important OF
them all In almost any Tourists
shop one may see the. great pink
burs Of Killarney (tokens of the mod
ern athletic de6utaute) and the deep
red of Richmond These are hybrid
teas Killarney was introduced from
Ireland in 1898. Richmond is still
younger. Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
is an exquisite white with tinge
.of lemon toward the centre. Nine.
Caroline Testout is an extraordinar.
lily lovely flower of a light pink.
Gruss an TeplitZ, which produces
brilliant scarlet flowers without ces-
sation and has even been seen Gov
cred with bloom in the midst of a
November snow. is nothing short of
marvellous
Naturally this new race has rev
olutionized the rose garden. Only in
the latter part of July and the first
week or two of August must the
rosarian lack blossoms now; and, if
the drought be not severe, he may
even have them then.
A Miracle in California.
However it must be confessed
that, with all these improvements.
growing roses in the garden for or
binary enjoyment is a difficult MAJ
ter in the greater part of the United
States. In California. it can be done
as though By mi acle The tender
est tea rose set casually in the
ground blooms shortly with the
abundance or an apple tree. But in
the Middle States and the East
spring stays cold too long and the
summer becomes hot and dry too
soon, so that. before The plants have
time 70 grow bushy and strong, the
heat stops their growth; and before
the buds have time 10 form sub
stanttally. the insistent SUI opens
them and burns their life sway.
If this difficulty could be over
come America could have as beau
tiful rose gardens as Europe has
had for centuries. As it is mani
festlv impossible to change the cii-
mate, growers are trying to produce
new roses which will suit the CT
mate. There is a national society
devoted to this end, and If is now
ten years old. The same thing has
been done for the chrysanthemum
the carnation. and other florists
flowers; and 1t viii eventually be
done for the rose.
To accomplish this the nybridizers
have taken the old running roses
like the Wichurlanas: the muIefffora,
oI cluster roses; and the japanese
single rose. the rugosa. They have
crossed them with our own informal
American wild roses. and then cross
ed them back on the hybrid perpet-
uals and hybrid teas. The results
have only begun q show bur they
promise great things for the future
of American rose-growing. Nearly
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