Making a Rose Garden Part 4

RUGOSA AND ITS HYBRIDS

_White_--Blanc Double de Coubert; _Rosa rugosa_, var. _alba_.

_Pink_--Conrad F. Meyer.

_Red_--Arnold; _Rosa rugosa_, var. _rubra_.

WICHURAIANA HYBRIDS

_White_--Wichuraiana, White Dorothy.

_Pink_--Lady Gay, Dorothy Perkins, W. C. Egan, Sargent.

_Red_--Hiawatha.

NOISETTES

_Yellow_--Cloth of Gold, Reve d'Or (climber), Fortune's Yellow.

POLYANTHAS

_White_--Trier, Catherine Ziemet.

_Pink_--Tausendschon, Clothilde Soupert.

_Red_--Carmine Pillar.

PRAIRIE ROSES

_White_--Baltimore Belle.

_Pink_--Rosa _setigera_.

AUSTRIAN BRIERS

_Yellow_--Harrison's Yellow, Persian Yellow, Austrian Copper.

A GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Anther--a rounded k.n.o.b-like form at the top of the stamen, containing the pollen.

Callus--a swelling which occurs at the base of a cutting previous to the formation of roots.

Calyx--the narrow green leaves or sepals forming the covering for the bud.

Corymb--a group of flower stalks arising from a common stalk and forming a level top.

Cutting--a section of a stalk containing several eyes or dormant buds, taken for the propagation of a new plant.

Disbud--to deprive a stalk of flower buds by pinching or rubbing these off. It is done in order to throw more energy into the remaining bud or buds.

Hep or hip--the seed pod.

Hybrid--a new species resulting from the cross-fertilization of two species.

Leaflet--a single member of the compound leaf borne by all rose plants.

Maiden plant--a plant blooming for the first time after being budded or grafted to a stock.

Ovary--the hollow lower end of a pistil, containing the embryo seeds.

Panicle--a cl.u.s.ter of flowers borne irregularly on a stem.

Petiole--the stalk to which the several leaflets are attached.

Pistil--the seed-bearing organ in the center of a flower, consisting of one or more styles, one or more stigmas and the ovary.

Pollen--the powdery substance found in the anthers.

Remontant--applied to roses that flower the second time in a summer.

Sepals--the narrow green leaves of a pithy texture forming the calyx.

Sport--a shoot or sucker from a plant, showing some peculiar feature or features distinguis.h.i.+ng it from its parent.

Stamens--the male organs surrounding the pistil.

Stigma--the upper end of the pistil, capable of receiving the pollen and connected with the ovary by a tube extending down through the style.

Style--the erect columnar support of the stigma.

Sucker--a branch or shoot proceeding from the root or stem of a plant, below the surface of the ground. Frequently used as meaning a shoot from the root-stock of a budded or grafted plant.