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Roses for Special Purposes: Cecile Brunner

The list of cut-flower roses most popular in the general use is not a long one but is liable to change by reason of the great demand among patrons for something new. At present the best are: Columbia, Premier, Red Columbia, Ophelia, Pilgrim, Double White Killarney, Mrs. Aaron Ward, Kil larney Brilliant, Sunburst, Mrs. Charles Russell, Mlle. Cecile Brunner, Radiance, American Beauty, and Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. コ Selections for Special Sections of the United States of America Those of our readers who live in the more thickly settled sections of our country will recognize, in the following, our dependence upon the modern scientific method of learning the "best roses" for certain localities, i.e., the method of actually testing them. We have had the good fortune to visit personally and to know the rose experts in many sections, and they severally have been so kind as to give us the benefit of their valuable experience, each in the form of a list of roses they have found to thrive. We stand back of these recommendations. (See, also, pages 64 to 76, inclusive.) For the Pacific Northwest Portland, Ore., is without question the rose-growing center of the Pacific Northwest. Nearly everybody there grows roses, and the city itself gives promise of having soon the finest municipal rose-garden in America. Among Portland's rose-growers we know of none more enthusiastic and better versed than Mr. J. A. Currey, Chairman of the American Rose Society's National Rose Test-Garden, to whom we are indebted for the following recommendations: