Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 99

Tocfay Is Rose Sunday in Oakland and thousands of rose enthusiasts will beVisIt log the famous rose garden Mo irom Amphitheater of Roses in Oakland. Mother's Day ceremonies are being held there also. May 9, 1971 OIL DON'T CONFUSE THIS QUALITY ITEM WITH SOME OF THE SHABBY JUNK AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE. FROM THE MOFf MOHAWK ft Promise in a Pose Carden LUXURIOUS HAG CARPET TILE UENSE WEAVE- HEAVY SELF STIUL FOAM BACK. SCLFT AVOCADQ-GOLD 18" XI 8" SQUARES nisei) isiE sajpm 7J23 MacAkthua blvd.

Oakland 1 632-4910 I Parks in 1946, he partially revised and completed the original plan. But basically the garden remains as Cobbledick con- knowledgeable rose growers, have established rose bushes of more than 400 varieties. This is the spot selected Today may be Mothers Day for everyone else but its Rose Sunday for Oaklanders who love this longtime favorite among all flowers. In a tradition stretching back 37 years, gardeners in this city have been congregating in the Morcom Amphitheater of Roses on the second Sunday of each May to reveal in one of the worlds most profligate displays of floral beauty. To them, its merely a happy coincidence that a lot of other people come to the same place at the same time to salute Oaklands latest Mother of the Year.

In fact, theyll probably join once more in the program at 2 p.m. today in the world-famed garden with every evidence of good will and sincerity. But way down deep, their biggest thrill comes from the Rose Sunday eruption of color and fragrance in a garden that. European experts have called the worlds most beautiful municipal rose garden. And well it might so come.

Mother Nature and men have combined their efforts to provide a setting for this horticultural show. In an eight-acre natural amphitheater just a block off Grand Avenue, the sun pours in at just the right angle and for the optimum length of time in the finest seasonal pattern. Here the Oakland Parks and Recreation gardening crevs, working with the counsel and 'aid. of some of Americas most ceived it, with a geometrically precise Florentine effect in the main area, leading down what is now called the Mothers Walk to a handsome reflecting pool at the bottom of a cascade which rises at the side to an exquisite floribunda garden at an upper level. On the hillside above the main garden lies the semi-circular Pioneer Walk, where plantings of Peace and Lillbet Roses commemorate the cavalcade of Oaklands and Californias history from 1848 to the present.

Long, graceful stone stairways descend to the garden from the upper side on Oakland Avenue. And the hillside shouldering gently into the floribunda garden from both sides offers a notable complementary horticultural feature a planting of trees from so many parts of the globe that it has been dubbed The United Nation of the Plant World. This is the spot that 40 rosarians from New Zealand, attending the national ARS convention in San Francisco this week, have specified that they want to see because theyve heard so much about it at the other end of the earth. Its right here for all of us to see and enjoy all the time and its free. It should be a must for every Bay Area resident.

Today is Rose Sunday, the climax of Rose over the United Nations garden in New York City last year by the All America Rose Selections of the AARS and it is filled with plants patented in all sections of the country, according to George Shiraki, head ro-sarian in the garden for Parks and Recreation. He explained that the actual plants are supplied by growers from local areas, just as they have always been. The plants are donated in a cooperative setup that benefits the garden, the commercial growers, and most of all the public. And this means that tiie spectacular array of plants is provided and replenished at no i i i a 1 cost to the city. Working under controlled conditions, Shiraki and his skilled staff of three keep accurate records of the adaptability of roses from many distant areas to our own local growing conditions.

And they make all their find: ings available to local gardeners at any time, thus continually upgrading the quality of home gardens in the Bay Area. Designer of the garden was Arthur Cobbledick, a well known Oakland landscape architect whose father, Col. James M. Cobbledick was a prime mover in the Businessmens Garden Club and in the California Spring Garden and Home Show. After William Penn Mott Jr.

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