How to Grow Roses

The thirteenth edition, 1920, by the president of the American Rose Society — including his month-by-month calendar of everything a rose wants done to it.

Expert Opinions

18 chapters in this part of How to Grow Roses.

Expert Opinions

Roses for Philadelphia and Vicinity, continued Hybrid Perpetuals Mrs. John Laing Mrs. George Dickson Susanne-Marie Rodocanachi Ulrich…

Expert Opinions: White Frau Karl Druschki

For Chicago and the North By W. C. EGAN EDITOR'S NOTE.-People who live in the cold Northwest may think it useless to attempt growing roses…

Expert Opinions: Hybrid Teas

While the section bordering Lake Michigan from Chicago northward, called the North Shore district, is not a rosarian's paradise, we can…

Expert Opinions: Polyantha

The well-known dwarf rose, Hermosa, and the writer made their first appearance before the public at about the same time, and the former has…

Expert Opinions: Briar

The old-fashioned Sweetbriar, with its heaven-born perfume, often winter-kills here, but I grow it in among some tall-growing barberries…

Expert Opinions: Paul Mrs

Captain Christy Captain Hayward Garden Favorite General Jacqueminot John Hopper La Rosiere Louis Van Houtte Magna Charta Mrs. Paul Mrs. R…

Expert Opinions: Surely the Creator

Another one of "America's noblemen," G. A. Parker*, with exquisite feeling, thus portrays the possible influence of the rose on the lives…

Expert Opinions: The American Rose Society

The American Rose Society aims "To increase the general interest in the cultivation and improve the standard of excellence of the rose for…

Expert Opinions: Hartford

ELITOR'S NOTE. - As a sample of the character of the 1919 "American Rose Annual," these extracts from pages 14-19 are published here by…

Expert Opinions: Cleveland

If any of our readers have the opportunity to visit Portland, Oregon, certainly one of the sights of that city of wonderful promise is the…

Expert Opinions: Famous Rose-Garden The

And now for the Brooklyn Rose-Garden, the plans are well under way, and excellent progress is being made.

Expert Opinions: Attar of Roses The

Attar of Roses The reader will notice on another page a short account of a visit made to that most beautiful rose-garden south of Paris…

Expert Opinions: The American Rose Annual

Every hybridizer will be interested also in the articles by Dr. White and Dr. Van Fleet in "The American Rose Annual" for 1916; also in the…

Expert Opinions: Roses and Rose-Growing

A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. By S. Reynolds Hole. 1883. 326 pp. Wm. S. Gottsberger, New York. An American reprint of a standard English work. Highly…

Expert Opinions: Norbert Levavasseur

Synonymous Roses Some roses have acquired new names that seem to be an improvement; for example, Dutch Beauty in place of Veluwezoom…

Expert Opinions: Moschata

Equivalents of our common names to some of those on next pages: Champney Cherokee Dog Eglantine Memorial Noisettiana Moss Muscosa Lævigata…

Expert Opinions: Plantier Austrian Briar

Rubiginosa* Tomentosa Villosa Cinnamomea Alpina Macrophylla Acicularis Rugosa Carolina ANALYSIS OF SPECIES, continued SUBSPECIES Macrantha…

Expert Opinions: Comtesse

Moss Blanche Moreau Blanche Roberts Caroline Marneis Comtesse de Murinais Ænnchen Müller *Baby Dorothyt *Baby Rambler† Betsy Van Nes…

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