MAY 



IRISH GARDENING. 



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de Nadaillac was not so well shown as last year (the 

 memory of that bloom haunts me), but this bloom 

 was a good one. He only had two poor flowers, 

 one passable, but let us draw a veil over his Alice 

 Lindsell ! Mr. Bewley, 

 who was second, had a 

 level even lot, mostly 

 H.P.sand H.T.s, where 

 as Mr. D'Olier had Teas 

 as his mainstay. I 

 should have liked to 

 see Mr. B e w 1 e y ' s 

 flowers with a little more 

 staging' done to them. 

 He had, if my memory- 

 serves me rig-htly, a 

 wonderful bloom of " H. 

 A. Moore," to which he 

 could have done more 

 justice. It was the best 

 bloom he had. His 

 flowers lacked the depth 

 of petal of Mr. D'Olier's 

 flowers. Mr. Crozier 

 was third with small 

 flowers, which were well 

 coloured. 



In the twelve roses-, 

 Mr. D'Olier came again 

 to the fore, and I 

 chuckled to see how 

 confidently he had 

 measured his strength 

 in this and the big 

 class. He took good 

 care to get a telling 

 Mrs. Mawley into the 

 twelve, and left a poorish 

 specimen in the twenty- 

 four. This, I may point 

 out to a novice, is a 

 dangerous game to play 

 at, I mean dividing 

 forces, but Mr. D'Olier 

 measured his opponents' 

 forces perfectly. The 

 tit-bit in this box was a 

 Madame de W'atteville. 

 a hard rose to grow 

 well, evidently off the 

 same plant as the bloom 

 of last year, though not 

 so highly coloured as 

 last year's flower was. 

 Mr. Crozier came 

 second, and Mr. Bewley 

 third. The one great 

 absentee was our old 

 friend of spring shows — 

 Mar^chal Niel. If I re- 

 member rightly, there 

 was not a single flower 



There Is no rose that can put such a finish into a box as 

 the Mart^chal. Even Mr. D'Olier, who usually does Niel 

 well, had none. But we cannot always have what we 

 want, even in rose growing. 



Chrvs.vnthk.mim ("Jason ") 



of .1 soft, pure yellcv colour. 



shown in any box. 



yootl out-of-door variety, 2J feet high, carryins liandsome (lowers 



flower during the month of October. (From a photograph of a plant growing in .Mess 

 Watson's Nurseries at Clontarf.) 



