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Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Hybrid
For garden beds and borders the four types most commonly used are the Hybrid Perpetuals, the Tea roses, Hybrid Teas, and Polyanthas. For use on arches and pergolas, for training on lattices and walls, and for covering dry banks we have the hardy and tender Climbers. For hedges, for masses shrubbery plantings, and for specimen bushes we have the Rugosas and Rugosa Hybrids, the lovely Brier roses and many rose species, of which the beautiful Rosa hugonis is the best known. Group 1: ROSES FOR GARDEN BEDS AND BORDERS Hybrid Perpetuals The Hybrid Perpetuals are the old-fashioned roses that held sway for so many years in the gardens of our grandmothers. The name is, unfortunately, woefully misleading, for their bloom is anything but perpetual. They concentrate all their efforts into the space of a few fleeting weeks and reach the high tide of their beauty during the month of June, giving but scattering bloom through the balance of the season. They possess, however, many virtues which help to offset this great failing. They are very hardy, withstanding severe winters; they are strong and vigorous growers, requiring less coddling than many of their more delicate and fastidious cousins; and their flowers are large and well formed, being produced on long, strong stems, which makes them valuable for cutting.
Several of the most popular varieties are as follows:- Frau Karl Druschki is often spoken of as the white American Beauty and is beloved by almost every gardener. Its beautiful, large, pure white blooms are borne on long, strong stems and are unexcelled for cutting. Their one failing seems to be that they possess no fragrance. The bush is an unusually strong grower and requires more space than do most other roses. Marguerite Guillard is a sport of Frau Karl Druschki and very similar in form and color, its distinguishing characteristic being that it is absolutely thornless.
Mrs. John Laing is a bush of vigorous habit and produces large, fragrant, clear pink flowers.
General Jackqueminot has long been a popular member of the Hybrid Perpetual group. Its flowers are a clear crimson in color; the bush needs vigorous pruning and training in order to be kept within bounds. Tea Roses Tea roses are of the everlasting type. The foliage has a coppery tint and the flowers are dainty and beautiful in both form and coloring. The plants are delicate, not hardy in the more northern sections of the country, their culture being confined to southerly climes where they are lavish with their bloom throughout the season. If grown in the North they require elaborate winter protection.
Lady Hillingdon is an exquisite rose of clear saffron-yellow. Maman Cochet produces large, fragrant flowers of carmine-pink. William R. Smith has flowers of creamy white tinted with pink. All these varieties are beloved wherever Tea roses are grown.
Hybrid Tea Roses Hybrid Teas are the result of a cross between Tea roses and those of some other type, usually the Hybrid Perpetuals, and they possess a happy combination of virtues. Most varieties are of sturdy, vigorous growth and are hardy in the North if given moderate winter protection. With proper treatment they will give generous bloom from June well into October, although varieties within the group differ somewhat in this respect, some being much more prolific long-season bloomers than others. The Hybrid Teas possess a wide range of color and form and are beyond any doubt the most desirable type of rose for the average garden. They are the piece de resistance of most rose gardens throughout the length and breadth of the land. A list of some of the most desirable varieties is given herewith in considerable detail as a guide to the amateur gardener in making his selections. They have been selected for their general hardiness and vigor, pleasing color, form, long season of bloom, and resistance to disease. Duchess of Wellington is one of the best of the yellow roses, being a vigorous grower and generous with its bloom. The buds are golden orange in color and beautifully tapered. The flowers are very fragrant and when full blown are of a soft saffron-yellow tint.
Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria is perhaps the loveliest of all white roses. The buds are creamy white, opening into large, pure white blooms. The plant is very hardy and free flowering, being especially generous with autumn bloom. Killarney Queen produces large flowers of a beautiful deep pink tone. It blooms well throughout the season and is strong and vigorous in habit, being particularly free from mildew.
La France is of robust and hardy growth and produces an abundance of bright silvery-pink flowers. It has merits all its own, thriving well on the poorer types of soil.
Lady Alice Stanley is an exceedingly popular variety, producing large, fragrant flowers, the outside of the petals being coral-rose in color and the inside pale pink. The bush is healthy and vigorous and free blooming. Mme. Edouard Herriot is a thing of exquisite beauty both when in bud and in flower. Its color is a glowing coral-red, shading to salmon, and it is one of the earliest roses to come into bloom. It has been the winner of many prizes, among them the $ 5000 prize offered by the Daily Mail in London, and it has captivated the heart of many a rose-lover.
Mme. Butterfly is a daughter of beautiful Ophelia and is worthy of even greater affection and regard. The flowers are delicate pink, touched with gold. It is more generous with autumn bloom than is Ophelia and is far less susceptible to black spot--which is a great point in its favor. Mrs. Aaron Ward is a variety universally beloved. The flowers are rather small, golden buff in color, touched with pink when full blown. It is lavish with its bloom and is altogether a delightful flower. Radiance is one of the most popular of all pink roses and has much to commend it. The flowers are a true rose-pink and are borne in profusion on long, strong stems, being particularly desirable as cut blooms. Red Radiance has all the merits of its parent. The flowers are large and deep rose-red in color.