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HORTICULTURE 



October 9, 1909 



NOTES ON NEWER ROSES. 



H. B. Molyneux, In The Garden, London. 

 Hybrid Perpetuals. 



The Hybrid Perpetuals among newer 

 Roses are few and far between; in a 

 list of the newer roses published in 

 the National Rose Society's Annual 

 for 1909, compiled by the publications 

 committee and numbering nearly nine- 

 ty distinct varieties, there is only one 

 Hybrid Perpetual — Dr. William Gfor- 

 don, a 1905 variety — and going through 

 my notes to look for the Hybrid Per- 

 petuals is almost like searching for a 

 needle In the proverbial bundle of hay. 

 Surely the possibilities among the Hy- 

 brid Perpetuals have not been exhaust- 

 ed. No doubt the tendency to run 

 down the Hybrid Perpetuals as a class 

 has something to answer for in this 

 connection, and so some raisers with 

 the slightest excuse label their new 

 productions Hybrid Teas rather than 

 Hybrid Perpetuals, which I think is a 

 great pity, for more reasons than one; 

 but we must take things as we find 

 them, and the new rose suffers for the 

 sins of its class. Undoubtedly "Hy- 

 brid Perpetual," by a curious paradox, 

 has in the eyes of not a few rosarians 

 come to mean once, or temporary 

 flowering only, and not perpetual in 

 the ordinary acceptation of the term 

 at all. We have heard no more of 

 Mr. Pemberton's suggestions that the 

 time had come for doing away with 

 the terms now in use, nor perhaps are 

 we likely to, unless the proposal to 

 destroy is accompanied by an easily 

 workable and intelligent scheme of re- 

 construction. I have no doubt when 

 they arrive together the thing will be 

 done; in the meantime we must put 

 up with the inconsistencies and para- 

 doxes of the present arrangement 

 which are manifest. The first Hybrid 

 Perpetual that I have any note about 

 is: — 



Barbarossa, sent out by Welter in 

 1907 and generally described in cata- 

 logues as a red Frau Karl Drusohki, 

 which is a pity, as it has no resemb- 

 lance to Frau Karl Druschki as we 

 know it. The color is not bad, but 

 there is a good deal of carmine in it, 

 and I have yet to see a good flower of 

 it. I am afraid it must join that in- 

 creasing army labelled "not wanted." 

 In other words, it ought not to have 

 been sent out. That is my own opin- 

 ion, and I have had it confirmed in 

 more than one quarter. No, the red 

 Frau Karl Druschki is yet to seek. 



Dr. William Gordon. — Sent out in 

 1905 by Messrs. William Paul & Son, 

 Waltham Cross. This is a big flower 

 of the old-fashioned type, color satin 

 pink, that comes rather flat, although 

 I have seen a high-centred flower. 

 Useful for pot culture, as it seems 

 free enough. 



M. H. Walsh.— Another 1905 intro- 

 duction raised by Messrs. Alexander 

 Dickson & Sons, Newtownards. This 

 is a good rose, fine crimson color with 

 a suggestion of scarlet in the younger 

 flowers; it comes good enough for ex- 

 hibition when at its best; good habit 

 of growth, which is of the kind usu- 

 ally termed "erect." Has been well 

 exhibited by the raisers this year at 



more than one show. I noticed a par- 

 ticularly fine flower at Luton. It is 

 good in the autumn, which is another 

 advantage, as reds are then scarce. Its 

 price has reached the normal, so it is 

 worth trying. 



Mrs. A. M. Kirker (1906, sent out by 

 Hugh Dickson of Belfast). — A sweet- 

 scented, good-sized flower, clear, bright 

 cerise color, that has opened well with 

 me, notwithstanding the wet; rather a 

 tall grower. It has found its way in- 

 to the exhibition boxes, and I think 

 has come to stay. 



Oberhofgartner A. Singer (1905, P. 

 Lambert) is another rose that I think 

 we can do without, it having nothing 

 especially to recommend it. 



Urania (1906, Walsh).— This is a 

 giant; my solitary plant has had some 

 tremendous flowers that would make 

 even the old Paul Neyron look small. 

 It is a similar shade of color to Ulrich 

 Brunner, slightly deeper perhaps, so 

 miight be called cheiTy criimson; a 

 good grower apparently. I have not 

 seen it exhibited, but have little doubt 

 when better known, as it deserves to 

 be, it will be found among the back- 

 row flowers in the exhibition boxes. 



This completes the newer Hybrid 

 Perpetuals as far as my notes are con- 

 cerned. A Continental correspondent 

 tells me I should try Gloire de Che- 

 dane Guinoisseau, and describes it as 

 true vermilion in color, of good shape 

 that should do well in England, but I 

 can get no confirmation of his report 

 among the trade growers. I also 

 heard there was another Jules Graver- 

 eaux that was likely to be useful — a 

 Monsieur this time, I presume — but 1 

 almost hope it is not so; two names 

 only distinguished by a prefix that is 

 often left out will only lead to con- 

 fusion. 



Of the Hybrid Perpetuals, then, 1 

 can only recommend two as worthy of 

 a trial, or, at the most, three — M. H. 

 Walsh, Mrs. A. M. Kirker and Urania — 

 the product of the world's raisers dur- 

 ing the last four years, not an over- 

 production, at any rate. 



THE CANNA. 



Those of our readers interested in 

 the culture of the Canua and who know 

 German may like to be made acquaint- 

 ed with the fact that Arpad Muhle of 

 Temesvar, Hungary, has recently 

 brought out a work entitled "Das 

 Geschlecht der Canna, deren geschichte, 

 Cultur, und anzucht." It contains 119 

 pages of text, of which the major por- 

 tion is devoted to a list of varieties 

 with raisers' names and descriptions. 



C. H. P. 



A CORRECTION. 



In our editorial last week on the 

 sale of the Morgan orchids, twenty- 

 four years ago, the date mentioned 

 should have been, of course, 18S5, not 

 18S4 as printed. It was not "John 

 Bergman" but Gus. Bergmann who rep- 

 resented Sander & Co. at the sale. 



Rosen-Zeitung for August, 1909, en- 

 closes a colored plate of J. Pernet- 

 Ducher's new H. T. rose Entiente Cor- 

 diale (Mme. Abel Chatenay x Kaiserin 

 Aug. Victoria). As represented, the 

 flower and foliage show the Kaiserin 

 blood very strongly, the difference be- 

 ing mainly in color, which is light 

 yellow. 



BY "WIRELESS" FROM THE HOME 

 OF FAIR MAID. 



Say "Fair Maid" and you think of 

 Roper. With all the glory which has 

 come to that distinguished Tewksbury 

 carnationist through his great Bay 

 State and other sensational products, 

 it can safely be said that there have 

 been few carnations that have made 

 the money for both growers and deal- 

 ers that this modest, unpretentious lit- 

 tle Fair Maid has earned. And she 

 never looked better than she does to- 

 t'ay. Mr. Roper has 35,000 carnations 

 in his benches this year — a moderate 

 number as compared with some of the 

 big operators, but there's plenty to be 

 learned from an inspection of them in 

 company with their industrious owner. 

 Standard varieties and new claimants 

 are there a-plenty. Mr. Roper says he 

 is "sick and tired" of house culture in 

 the summer and proposes to return to 

 the old system of field culture except- 

 ing only in the case of Lawson, Win- 

 sor and others of that type. 



Among the new varieties to be seen 

 here is a scarlet seedling, known as 

 No. 1021, which is well worth keeping 

 one's eye on — as a commercial propo- 

 sition perhaps rather than as an ex- 

 hibition sensation. There is a white 

 seedling, deeply fringed, quite similar 

 to Shasta, which shows good qualities, 

 including a stem at the present time 

 of mid-winter proportions. One that is 

 sure to be heard from is a two-year- 

 old, of a soft but lively pure pink. 

 Bay State looms up sturdy and regal 

 as ever, bristling with buds of noble 

 mien. Like her namesake, she is in- 

 vincible. 



It is but a short distance from Ro- 

 per's to the establishment of Patten & 

 Co., where the beloved ex-president of 

 the American Carnation Society and 

 his proficient son are to be found "al- 

 ways on their job." Mr., Patten gives 

 quite a jolt to anyone who has been 

 pinning faith to iron as an indestruc- 

 tible component in greenhouse con- 

 struction, showing iron uprights cor- 

 roded off at the surface of the soil 

 while the wood in the beaches of equal 

 age of service is still intact. The car- 

 nations are handsome, as always, 

 showing the effect of constant and in- 

 telligent care in clean vigorous growth 

 and a miniature forest of lusty buds. 

 Practically every novelty advertised 

 during the past year or two may be 

 seen here, all getting a chance to prove 

 their qualifications for a permanent 

 tenancy. Among the most impressive 

 at the present time are May Day, pink, 

 and Sara Nicholson, crimson. They 

 both look very much like winners. 



John T. Gale is another prosperous 

 Tewksbury grower. About 6,000 vio- 

 lets and nearly the same number of 

 carnations is the extent of his outfit. 

 Like many Massachusetts violet grow- 

 ers, he ignores the capricious and un- 

 reliable Marie Louise and rests his 

 faith on Lady Hume Campbell, from 

 which he has now commenced to pick. 



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 bury, Mass., Sept. 29, 1909. 



