Dreer's garden book 1921 (1921) Dreer's garden book 1921 dreersgardenbook1921henr Year: 1921 Memorial Rose LORD PENZANCE'S HYBRID SWEET BRIER ROSES These lovely hybrids are crosses between the common Sweet Brier and vari- ous other Roses, and like their parent, the foliage is deliciously scented. The flowers are of the most beautiful tints, and produced in great profusion, and the plants are perfectly hardy, and possess a robust vigor which is quite astonish- ing. For best effect should be grown as pillar Roses; furnish them with a stake or pole 5 to 6 feet high, tying the main shoots to this
Dreer's garden book 1921 (1921) Dreer's garden book 1921 dreersgardenbook1921henr Year: 1921 Memorial Rose LORD PENZANCE'S HYBRID SWEET BRIER ROSES These lovely hybrids are crosses between the common Sweet Brier and vari- ous other Roses, and like their parent, the foliage is deliciously scented. The flowers are of the most beautiful tints, and produced in great profusion, and the plants are perfectly hardy, and possess a robust vigor which is quite astonish- ing. For best effect should be grown as pillar Roses; furnish them with a stake or pole 5 to 6 feet high, tying the main shoots to this and allowing the laterals to develop and ramble at pleasure. Treated in this way and without pruning, beyond cutting out dead and superfluous branches, they will produce an abundance of lovely single or semi-double flowers with a beauty all their own. Amy Robsart. Splendid deep rose color. Anne of Qerstein. Dark crimson, of graceful habit. Jeannie Deans. Large semi-double scarlet-crimson. Lord Penzance. Soft shade of fawn or ecru, passing to a lovely lemon- yellow in the centre, sometimes toned with a most delicate pink; a good grower and abundant bloomer, very sweet-scented. Lucy Ashton. White-tinted pink on the edges. Meg Merrilies. Gorgeous crimson, very free-flowering, wonderfully robust habit, large foliage; one of the best. Price. Strong two-year-old plants, $ each. Set of one each of the six varieties for $ memorial, or Evergreen Roses The type of this group of Roses, Hosa Vi'ichnraiana, is of Japanese origin, and flowers during June and July. This, as well as the varieties that have originated from it, are of a trailing habit of growth, very hardy, and are recommended for covering graves; hence one of its names—Memorial Rose—climbing over walls, arbors, stumps of trees, or for trailing over rocks or rough ground, in fact any where where a climbing or trailing Rose can be used. The foliage is of a leathery texture, of a beautiful shining green, and not only
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