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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 1, 19U6.
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JJRli are a few specimen roses grown in various Portland gardens and photographed by The Sunday Orego
nian. Of course the crowning beauty, the color, is lacking, but unfortunately no printing ink has been man
ufactured and no painter's pigment discovered which is adequate to a perfect reproduction of the hues of a
Portland rose. The flower has life; artificial colors, in contrast with the blossom, are dead.
Nearly all the roses here represented are well known to growers some of them as familiar as an elm or a
maple. It would have been small task to secure specimens of each variety twice as large as those pictured, in
which case Eastern readers would have wondered over tricks of the camera.
Attention of Western Oregon rosarlans and the general public is called to the Frau Karl Druschki, incom
parably the finest white rose ever produced. It is specially well adapted to our soil and climate. If white is no
color, then this rose is perfect. Other roses called white when set beside the Druschki are yellow, or pink, or
cream. It is dazzling in its beauty, whether as a half-open bud or fully developed. It grows to great size,
young bushes putting forth blossoms seven inches in diameter. No rose withstood the assaults of the excep
tional rains last month so well as this.
The bush is remarkably strong, a vigorous grower, makes wood fast and is most prolific. One amateur rosar
ian reports 22 large-size symmetrical roses from a young bush set out last Fall, every one of them perfect in
form, and buds to the number of 34 now developing that promise to be equal to the June blooms. The foliage is
a rich, very dark green, which sets off the white blossom brilliantly.
Though new, the Frau Karl Druschki has proved its claim to distinction and is destined to become very pop
ular. One experienced rosarian expresses the opinion that three or four years from now It will be as common in
Portland as the La France or the Caroline Testout. Local florists will probably not be able to suprjlv the de
mand for Fall planting. No other rose promises a richer reward to him who cultivates it.
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