IRISH GARDENING. 



January 



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Our Coloured Plate. 



New Seedling- Hybrid Tea Rose " His Majesty." 



THIS fine rose, exhibited for the first time 

 at the London Show in July, was awarded 

 a card of commendation, and again in 

 September, when it gained the gold medal. 

 The parentage, as given by the raisers, 

 Messrs. Samuel M'Gredy & Son, of Portadown, 

 are two unnamed seedlings — one derived from 

 Horace Veruet x La France and the other from 

 Horace Veruet x Anna Olivier. Looking care- 

 fully at the flower one can notice all the traits of 

 these parents — the depth of petal due to A. 

 Olivier, the colour due to Horace Veruet, whilst 

 La France has given her charming odour to 

 grace this fine flower. In some respects the 

 flower and habit of growth resembles " Frau 

 Karl Druschki," and by some rosarians it is 

 supposed to be a red Druschki. In growth 

 " His Majesty " is strong and sturdy. The 

 wood is smooth, with few thorns, and the 

 foliage is of that spreading nature which 

 shows off" the flower so well. The colour of the 

 flower is dark crimson, shaded deep vermilion 

 crimson. The blooms are upstanding, and is 

 an exhibition as well as a garden variety. It 

 will be sent out in the coming spring, and is 

 well worth growing in quantity, as the colour 

 is such an acquisition to the Hybrid Tea class. 



O'D. B. 



1909. 



WITH the present issue Irish G.\rden"i.\g 

 enters its fourth volume. To the 

 numerous contributors who have so 

 well and so willingly helped us in the work we 

 set out to do — the establishment of a "home- 

 made " journal for the advancement of horticul- 

 ture in Ireland— we offer our sincerest thanks. 

 At the same time, we do not forget that thanks 

 are also due to a large number of readers whose 

 sympathetic interest materially helped toward 



the growth and development of the journal, 

 either by widening its circle or by the con- 

 tribution of notes and suggestions. It may 

 be added that we are always glad to receive 

 communications from our readers, as well as 

 photographs of their homes or gardens. We 

 wi.sh all (contributors and readers) a prosperous 

 and " Happy Xew Year." 



The Gardeners' Chronicle for December iqth contains 

 an article b}' Mr. S. .•\rnott descriptive of the extremely 

 interesting^ garden of Mr. \V. E. Gumbleton, of Belgrove, 

 Co. Corli. 



The director (Mr. F. J. Chittenden) of the Research 

 Station of the Royal Horticultural Society of England 

 has been carrying on very extensive tests with " nitro- 

 baclerine " at Wisley. A very lucid report of the 

 e.xperiments is given in the recently published journal 

 of the societ}'. 



We regret to record the death of the Earl of .Annes- 

 ley at Castlewellan on the 15th December last. The 

 deceased Earl was an enthusiastic gardener, and his 

 death is a sad loss to Irish arboriculture. Castlewellan, 

 as most of our readers know, possesses one of the 

 richest collections of shrubs and trees in the countrj'. 

 Lord Annesley took a practical interest in the develop- 

 ment of this journal from the first, and to him we were 

 indebted for the several illustrations illustrative of 

 notable trees at Castlewellan that have appeared from 

 time to time in our pages. 



In the chrysanthemum audit for 1908, made bj' the 

 Journal of Horticulture, four varieties headed the list of 

 the best fifty Japanese with an equal number of votes. 

 These were Lady Talbot (soft canary- yellow), F. S. \'allis 

 (canary- yellow), Reginald \'allis (purple amaranth), 

 Mrs. A. T. Millar (white). Of new Japanese varieties 

 Splendour (crimson red, gold reverse) was voted the 

 best, the ne.xt two being the Hon. Mrs. Lopes (rich 

 yellow) and Mrs. C. Penford (rich yellow, shaded 

 crimson). 



The English Board of -Agriculture has issued, in the 

 form of a supplement to their monthlj' journal, a bulky 

 report on the food of some British birds that should 

 prove interesting to many of our readers. It is compiled 

 by Mr. Robert Newstead, who is a well-known authority 

 on bird-lore ; but as the inferences are mainly, if not 

 entirely, drawn from local observation (Cheshire), one is 

 inclined to doubt the universal application of his conclu- 

 sions. A committee of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science is at present engaged on this 

 particular research, and it will be interesting to compare 

 the two reports when the committee publish their co- 

 operative results. 



The Jew's M.\llow (or Kerria jtiponicu) is one of 

 our most useful common shrubs. The double-flowered 

 form is the one to possess, its rich golden rose-like 

 blooms appear in .April or May, and are very welcoine. 

 The shrub grows quickly. The only pnining required 

 is the remov.tl of weak or crowded branches, and this 

 mav be done after the flowers have fallen. 



