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'Dr. E. M. Mills' rose References
Book  (1957)  Page(s) 114-115.  
 
Dr. E. Mills This variety belongs lately to R. spinosissima L. Growth: Upright, later strongly arching, up to 2 m. Foliage: A little less loose and lighter green than R. hugonis Hemsl. Blooms: Light yellow, 4-5 cm in diameter. Fruits: Seldom available. Prickles: Sparse, thin and pointed, canes white tomentous pubescent.
Book  (Jan 1946)  Page(s) 33.  
 
Dr. Mills. A hybrid of R. Hugonis, also showing rugosa ancestry. It is hardier than Hugonis, though it has many of its characteristics. The semi-double flowers are pale primrose yellow, flushed pink.
Book  (Jul 1938)  Page(s) 89.  
 
Dr. E. M. Mills: Probably a hybrid of R. Hugonis and R. rugosa (perhaps it is a R. Spinosissima hybrid). Flowers semi-double, pale primrose flushed pink.
Book  (1936)  Page(s) 480.  
 
Mills, Dr. E. M. (hybrid hugonis) Dr. van Fleet 1926; Hugonis X Altaica (?); primrose-yellow, shaded light pink,medium size, semi-double, globular, nodding, floriferous, repeats, free-blooming, blooms along the canes, small Rugosa-foliage, growth 7/10, climbing, 2 m., hardy. Sangerhausen
Book  (1930)  Page(s) 175.  
 
Proof of the Pudding. Dr. E.M. Mills. H Rug. (Van Fleet, 1926.) A.R.A., 1926; P.P., 1928. Preston reports that it blooms two weeks in June and has a few scattering flowers in mid summer. The plant is vigorous and ornamental, even when not in bloom. Webster also had a few flowers in midsummer and healthy, vigorous growth. Cross considers it a valuable shrub whose early bloom, fragrance, good foliage, and tendency to improve each year are excellent points. He claims that it must be carefully pruned to produce a shapely bush. Yeager states that it winter-killed severely in South Dakota, and that it is not of much value for his region. Isham found it a rampant grower and shy bloomer, and very disappointing, which is to be expected in the warmer California climate. We think that its chief merit lies in its early bloom and its dwarf, spreading, shrub-like habit. It blooms only once at Breeze Hill.
Website/Catalog  (1929)  Page(s) 64.  
 
Shrub Roses
Dr. E. M. Mills. Hybrid Hugonis (Dr. W. Van Fleet, 1926.) Flowers small, semi-double, primrose, shaded pink, profusely produced along the branches. Shrubby growth, 3 to 4 feet high. Small, healthy foliage.
A low, bushy shrub bearing a general likeness to the Scotch Rose (R. spinosissima) group, although some observers believe it is partly Rugosa. Very pretty early in the season when there are few other Roses, and the foliage is attractive until autumn.
Magazine  (Jan 1927)  Page(s) 11.  
 
..je vais vous donner un aperçu général de leurs cadettes, celles du Concours International de [Bagatelle]1926-1927, qui ont été les plus remarquées au cours de leur première année de plantation....Et enfin pour terminer les deux variétés présentées par l'American Rose Society, qui ont la particularité de s'éloigner des types précédents. ...La seconde :
Dr E. M. MILLS, issue de Hugonis x Radiance, de croissance vigoureuse, a un feuillage abondant, plissé et vert foncé, très persistant. Au cours de la saison prochaine, nous en reparlerons, mais d'ores et déjà, nous émettons l'espoir de voir en elle le début d'une nouvelle espèce à laquelle nous souhaitons le succès qu'à eu son aînée, dernière venue, celle des Pernetiana.
Book  (1926)  Page(s) 43-44.  Includes photo(s).
 
The choice of these seedlings for propagations in varying amounts has rested largely upon the opinions of the group of workers interested here, and upon the comments of several visitors who have expressed themselves when visiting the garden. The schedule for introduction has also been controlled largely by the desire to have each succeeding introduction show a distinct difference from its predecessors. It is probable that this practice cannot be carried out indefinitely since the most valuable and beautiful of the seedlings lie conspicuously in two groups.

One of these may be called loosely the group of "Early-flowering Yellow Roses." This means a mixed group in which Rosa Hugonis, R. xanthina, R. spinosissima, R. altaica, R. hispida, R. foetida, and Harison's Yellow are involved. All of these plants are characterized by growth somewhat similar to that of R. Hugonis, with the exception that the canes are more upright in habit; the fruits vary from red hips ripening in mid-summer to dark purple-black fruits maturing in late autumn, and in flowers of considerably greater size, exhibiting slight variation in the intensity of the yellow color and varying degrees of doubleness. All of them are well armed with both prickles and spines, form more or less dense thicket-like growths from the suckering habit of the root, and are distinguished by the bright and excellent foliage which is maintained until late in the autumn.

The problem in choosing among these plants has resolved into the selection of one or more varieties which will represent the extremes of color variation toward white and darkest yellow, and toward the extremes of flowering season - in most cases, a season distinctly later than that of Hugonis itself, owing to the influence of the Spinosissima and Foetida blood. It is probable that these new roses will never have the same usefulness of the Hybrid Teas, but their vigor, hardiness, and early flowering should secure for them a place in shrubbery plantations where they would receive the same attention and consideration as any of the spring-flowering shrubs.
Book  (1926)  Page(s) 47-49.  Includes photo(s).
 
The fourth rose which will be sent out at the same time is a very distinct Hugonis hybrid named Dr. E. M. Mills, in honor of our President Emeritus. it is Illustrated in Plate XI, facing page 49, and the official description follows:

Dr. E.M. Mills: An early-blooming, spreading shrub rose, 3 to 4 feet high, similar to the graceful Scotch roses in its habit and in its manner of spreading by underground rootstocks. Foliage is small and deep green, and the new growth is almost thornless, with sharp, straight thorns on the mature wood. Flower are medium size, 2 to 2.5 inches across, semi-double, peculiarly globular in shape, and profusely produced along and around the arching branches. They are primrose color with a pink suffusion, which becomes more pronounced in the later blooms. The effect is of wands of blooms somewhat like Hugonis. The parentage of this rose is in doubt, although Dr. Van Fleet regarded it as a cross between Hugonis and Altaica. The foliage hints of Rugosa ancestry, and the group of roses was sent out for trial with this one included a hybrid between Hugonis and Radiance. The plant of Dr. E.M. Mills is vigorous and graceful in habit throughout the season, and the rose is valuable as a lawn specimen or for use among shrubs.

Dr. E.M. Mills has been presumed to be the Hugonis X Radiance hybrid mentioned by Dr. Van Fleet in the 1919 Annual, on page 31. A picture of it faces page 169 of the 1923 Annual, and a note about it was published in the same volume on page 189. On page 27 of the 1921 Annual, Dr. Van Fleet discusses the Hugonis X Rugosa cross of which it is probable that Dr. E.M. Mills is one.

In accordance with the arrangement which exists between the American Rose Society and the United States Department of Agriculture, the stock of these two roses has been divided upon equitable terms between rose-growing members of the American Rose Society who agree to sell it at a uniform price and with the uniform distributions furnished by the Bureau of Plant Industry. The purchasers who have arranged for stock of these roses, and who can be expected to offer them for sale in the autumn of this year, or spring of 1927, are reported by the Secretary of the American Rose Society on January 25, 1926, as follows:

For both Sarah Van Fleet and Dr. E.M. Mills:

J.W. Adams Nursery Co., Springfield, Mass
Arlington Nurseries, Arlington, N.Y.
Armstrong Nurseries, Ontario, Calif.
Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, N.J.
Conard-Pyle Company, West Grove, Pa.
Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa.
Henry A. Dreer, 1306 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia, Pa.
George L. Ehrle, Richfield, N.J.
Good & Reese Co., Springfield, Ohio
Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N.J.
Lovett's Nursery, Little Silver, N.J.
*Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo.
The Rose Farm, Inc., White Plains, N.Y.
Somerset Rose Nursery, New Brunswick, N.J.
Treeman & Munger, Perry, Okla.
Urbana Floral Co., Urbana, Ohio
Verhalen Nursery Co., Scottsville, Texas
E.S. Welch, Shenandoah, Iowa

*For trial and decorative planting, and not for commercial distribution. - Editor.

Sarah Van Fleet only:

East Lawn Nursery Co., Sacramento, Calif.
Harold McGregor, Springfield, Ohio

Dr. E.M.Mills only:

Bristol Nurseries, Bristol, Conn.
Brookdale Nurseries, Bowmanville, Ont.
I.E. ilgenfritz Sons Co., Monroe, Mich.
H.V. Lawrence, Cape Cod Nurseries, Falmouth, Mass
*North Dakota Agricultural College, Agricultural College, N. Dak.
Northwest Nursery Co., Valley City, N. Dak.
A.N. Pierson Co., Cromwell, Conn.
Princeton Nurseries, Princeton, N.J.
Stark Brothers Nursery & Orchard Co., Louisiana, Mo.
N.P. Van Steyn, Wallington, N. J.
Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago, Ills.
Whytemere Gardens, Pontiac, Mich.

There may be some later additions to this list. It will be useless to address any of the above concerns for plants for the spring of 1926, as the stock prepared and provided is for propagation only. It is believed, however, that orders for later delivery will be accepted. Under the contract with the Department of Agriculture, the price cannot exceed $2 per plant.

To avoid disappointment, attention is called to the fact that these roses are not "everblooming," in the way that Hybrid Tea roses are so called, although Sarah Van Fleet does bloom recurrently after the initial early summer bloom; that they in no sense resemble the ordinary Hybrid Tea or Hybrid Perpetual roses, and that they are sent forth as efforts by the great hybridizer who produced them to provide what he called "dooryard roses". Both are vigorous, rapidly growing decorative or shrubbery roses of a new type, though wholly distinct from each other.

References to Mr. Morrison's article, on page 41, will more fully explain the ideals toward which these fine roses approximate, and will explain also the continuance of Dr. Van Fleet's work.

It is also proper to mention that specimens of these roses are being supplied for planting at the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass., the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N.Y. and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Book  (1926)  Page(s) 184.  
 
Dr. E.M. Mills Hybrid Hugonis (Dr. Van Fleet; introduced by American Rose Society, 1925)... primrose with pink suffusion which becomes more pronounced in the later blooms...
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