. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Seedling No. 115. Seedling No. 150. TWO NEW ROSES OF JOHN COOK, BALTIMORE, MD. species. R. centifolia (Provence rose), in height from three to six feet is very sweet scented and has rose purple flow- ers in June. In July these are succeeded by fragrant fruit. R. muscosa is well known as the Moss rose. R. ferruginea is a tall growing species with flowers a deep red in August and fruit purplish red. R. lucida is an American species, two feet tall, with red flowers from May to July and deep red fruit. A variety of th
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Seedling No. 115. Seedling No. 150. TWO NEW ROSES OF JOHN COOK, BALTIMORE, MD. species. R. centifolia (Provence rose), in height from three to six feet is very sweet scented and has rose purple flow- ers in June. In July these are succeeded by fragrant fruit. R. muscosa is well known as the Moss rose. R. ferruginea is a tall growing species with flowers a deep red in August and fruit purplish red. R. lucida is an American species, two feet tall, with red flowers from May to July and deep red fruit. A variety of this rose with double flower is "flore ; R. arvensis or repens has white flowers in June and is fine for covering rocky and gravelly hills. Varieties of this are Queen of Belgians, creamy white, double, and Splendens, flesh colored, the bud crimson. R. rubiginosa, Sweet Briar, is a very fragrant wild rose which flowers in June, is pink and excellent for hedges, growing tall. Hybrid sweet briar or Lord Penzance roses, which are crosses of the common Briar with garden roses, are very vigorous and hardy plants, very sweetly scented. The flowers are single or semi-double ranging in color from pale yellow to crimson. There are about fifteen varieties of this popular rose, and all worthy of a place in hardy gardens. R. setigera, the Climbing or Prairie rose, native to North America, has stems of fifteen to twenty feet and flowers of deep rose, changing to white, in July. The fruit is red. A favorite variety of this is the well known Balti- more Belle. In R. Wichuraiana, the Memorial rose, another Japanese variety of great merit, we have a very useful flower, valuable for its keeping qualities, also for climbing low trellises, traveling over rocky slopes, gravelly embankments and growing where other roses could not live; some of the best hybrids are Gar- denia, yellow to cream, Evergreen Gem, one of the very best for its foliage, flower yellow to white, and Universal Fav
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