Word: rosarians
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Amid so much activity, the stereotypes no longer fit. Through the 1970s, the archetypal gardener was over 50 and had time and money to spare: a smug matron with impeccable calceolarias, an eccentric rosarian, a spinster growing herbs. But now, says the National Gardening Association, 78% of America's households garden, and all the recent surveys suggest that the most fervent converts are between 30 and 49 and still evenly divided between men and women. Those who once bought geraniums and parched them in college dorm rooms have discovered that they can even garden competitively...
...kneeling and digging and weeding seems to have an equally salutary effect on the human spirit. "He who would have beautiful roses in his garden," wrote the great rosarian Samuel Reynolds Hole in 1869, "must have beautiful roses in his heart." To wait as long as three years for trilliums to bloom requires considerable fortitude; to rise early and weed builds discipline; to construct a garden in one's mind in the dead of winter fosters purity of thought. "Sometimes what you do is for others," muses Designer Oscar de la Renta, who has transformed a Connecticut horse farm into...
Upstairs among the cut flowers crowds six deep gazed and sniffed at President and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, two new roses originated by famed Rosarian Lyman B. Coddington of Murray Hill, N. J. President Herbert Hoover is a very harlequin of a rose. Shaded orange, yellow and pink, it is a larger, paler Talisman. Mrs. Herbert Hoover, unlike the delicate yellow Mrs. Calvin Coolidge introduced two years ago, is a rich velvety crimson...
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