The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-06-13


What the talip y % Holland. tAe
rose \ to America.
The fact u emphAoised ~ me
convention here Of Tie. American
Rose society, which consists Of
1000 rose expertA These may %
regarded - the representatives, IN
. rose congress OF the miiiioAs o.
amateur rose growers al ovsf me
country.
For roses have come to be ono
OF our largest crops. Suburban
| and city dwellers Who have . little
soil 1t their disposal. and . desire
| to cultivate II, turn more and moro
| to tho production Of roses.
These rose growers are friends
Of the race, for they add to the
beauty and thereby to IL Joy OF
life. Our country has been called
ugly With its neat and CANDY little
frame houses, its general air OF
being new, unfinished and crude.
But the cottage with its porch bow
cred BY climbing roses, or its front
yard festooned with rose bushes,
is distinctly IN ornament
The rose growers society Is out
with the slogan Of . rose bush for
every yard, and their propaganda
seems to be getting results. They
now have . number Of rose test
gardens situated In different parts
Of the country, 30 that experiments
in rose growing can be made under
varying conditions. There II one
at Cornell university. in New York;
others at Portland, Ore, New Roch-
ellie, N. Y, Arlington, Va. Hartford;
Conn, and St Paul. Mimi.
Tho garden at Arlington, owned
by the department Of agriculture
and supervised by DR.. W. Van
Fleet, government rose expert, has
nearly q thousand different vari-
ties of roses, from delicate single
pink blossoms like apple blossoms.
to enormous red and white speci-
mems made up Of . mass Of petals.
DR.. Van Fleet has also q few
freaks in his garden, among them
q blue rose, which is. like all blue
roses, a dark, purplish blue color.
This specimen is success in that
1t can be grown satisfactorily, but
It Is not admired BY the government
scientists who unhesttatiAgly pro-
nounce it ugly.
| Nataral Celers Best
| The coloring admired BY Fooe
growers is a clear. smooth red, pink
or yellow, of any shade. Success
in producing . perfect ross in q
natural color is more laudable
from the rose scientists point Of
view than a freak product
l The points ny which the Ameri-
can Rose society judges plants
tshould be interesting to any one
who loves roses, because they are
good standard by which to meas
ure the roses in a garden or vase
anywhere. They are also useful
to any ono selecting varieties Of
roses for garden.
Outdoor roses are judged on a
scale of 100 points as follows: Wig
or. 20; Righteousness abundance
Of blooms), 20; color, Is; size, Is;
form (shape. number Of fpetals)
10; substance thickness Of petals)
10; fragrance, 10.
For. cut flowers the scale slight.
ly different; size, Is; color, 20;
stem, 20; form, Is; substance, Is;
foliage. IL.
In rose grown for cutting. the
stem should be long and thick
enough to support the rose ade.
quately. It Is desirable that the
leaves be glossy and the bud point
ed in the center of the flower.
In a bush selected for ornament
: al purposes, long, heavy stems ar;
: not SO important as vigor of thu
plant as whole. A bush Of thi.
sort ranks high il 1t is prolific IL
blooms with attractive, healthy fol
iage and blossoms.