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IRISH GARDENING 



Roses. 



By O'DoNEi. Bruwm',, iM.D. 



WHAT surprised me 

 mosl at our Show in 

 Horse Show week 

 was Ihe number of " newly- 

 arrived" rosarians in the 

 sliow lent. In utter dismay 

 1 asked Dr Hall who was 

 lliis and who was that— men 

 1 had never seen before — 

 and it made me glad to 

 see "young bloods" at last 

 springing up in Ireland to 

 carry on rose worship. It 

 augurs well for the Show, 

 and what they showed was 

 not rubbish — no, not by any 

 means, ll was Dr. Hall's 

 day for e\ ery thing — the Cup, 

 the Teas {hurribilc dictu), the 

 Hybrid Teas, all went back 

 lo Monaghan. I felt my 

 roses were unkind to me, 

 especially the Teas, for it 

 was the first lime I was ever 

 aten with tlieni, and it will 

 be the last, I hope. Bui a 

 greater shock was }'ct in 

 store for me. Outside the 

 lent sat a sedate gentleman to whom I was introduced. 

 He turned out to be Ihe "Great Pembcrton," the hero 

 of a hundred fights. In our chat he w^as so kind and 

 frank, but he said one nasty thing which I cannot 

 forget. Talking of the various classes of roses, he had 

 a good word for all until he reached my favourites. 

 "As for the Teas," he said, "they will be a dead race 

 in five years." I IhiiUi this remark was forced out of 

 him, because he liad been complaining of the hopeless 

 jumble there seems to e.xist nowadays over new roses 

 being pitchforked into any class where the raiser thinks 

 his novelty will create the most favourable impression. 

 No one can say that Mr. I'cmberton does not know 

 what he is talking about in matters relating to roses, 

 and no one can deny that there are several roses in a 

 class which does not belong to them. There are at 

 present two exceedingly well-known roses which came 

 from the same parents, born from the same hip, raised 

 in the same atmosphere, and sent out by the raiser — 

 one a Hybrid Perpetual and the other a Hybrid Tea ! 

 Then again there was a rose shown a few years ago 

 by a first-class raiser as a Hybrid Tea — parentage 

 guaranteed a pure Hybrid Tea— yet this rose, in spite 

 of all of these precautions, was put into the Teas. It 

 is a pity that this was done, because had it been left 

 where nature and the raiser meant it to have stayed it 

 would have been useful for its colour. Now it is in 

 a class where there are already too many and far 

 belter varieties of its own colour. If this •' Hox 

 and Cox" business goes on much longer we shall 

 not be truthful when we talk about our several 

 classes. 



TwELVK Giiuu Teas 



I'DR EXHIIUTUIN. 



White Manian Cochet. 



Maman Cochet. 



Mrs. E. .Mawley. 



Mme. Constant Soujiert. 



Mine. Jules Gra\'ere;iux. 



Mrs. .M\les Kennedy. 



W. K. Smith. 



The Bride. 



Harry Kirk. 



Mrs. Foley Ilobbs. 



Medea. 



Souv. de Pierre Notting. 



Twelve Gouh Hybkih Per 

 PETfALs EOK Exhibition. 

 iVIrs. John Laing. 

 Fiau K. Drnschki. 

 Hor-ace \'ernet. 

 Uliich Hriunier. 

 Hugh Dickson. 

 Elicnnc Levet. 

 Prince .\rthur. 

 Victor Hug'o. 

 Dr'. .\ndr}'. 

 Helen Keller. 

 Comte de Raimbautl. 

 h. K. Williams. 



Twelve Gouh HvbuiliTeas 



EOR EXHIBITlilN. 



Mildred Grant. 



Mr.W. J. Grant {climbing). 



Bessie Brown. 



Dr. O'Donel Browne. 



Cieorge C. Waud. 



William Shean. 



Lvon Rose. 



J.'B. Clarke (pillar). 



Mme. Melaine Souperl. 



Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. 



Mons. Joseph Hill. 



Dean Hole. 



Twelve Good Bedders. 



La France. 



Fran K. Drnschki. 



Caroline Testout. 



Dean Hole. 



Liberl\' or Richmond. 



KtUarney (double iicd'). 



Pharisaiir. 



Lj'on Rose. 



Captain Haywood. 



Hugh Dickson. 



Lady Ash I own. 



Cvnthia Forde. 



C o 1 u m n e a G 1 o r i (j s a 



(Nl.w Species). 



WE can safely predict a great future for the above 

 as an autumn and winter flowering basket 

 plant. .\ coloured photograph is needed lo 

 i\o justici' lo this subject, for Ihe flowers are a warm 

 sciiilel colour with a yellow throiit, and such coioin"S 

 are doubly welcome in the duller period of the year. 

 The corolla is arched about three inches long by one 

 and a half inches across the wide-open mouth, the lower 

 segment is narrow and strap-like, the corolla narrows 

 to a tube at the base where it is gibbous, or has a large 

 pouch behind resting on the calyx. Whitish hairs are 

 scattered over the exterior of the corolla. The calyx 

 is star-shaped, of five spreading segments, Ihe leaves 

 are opposite, thick in texture, from an inch lo an incli 

 and a half long, oblitjuely oval, with an inroUed margin. 

 Colunineas are stove evergreens, and this new comer 

 is the best of the family. It somewhat resembles a 

 large-flowered .-\eschynanthus, and requires similar 

 culture. The plant in the basket was photographed at 

 Glasnevin in September; after flowering it was placed 

 in a greenhouse with a temperature of 55" to 60'-', the 

 shoots continued their downw'ard prc»gress, and are now 

 two feet long and again set with flower buds which 

 shoidd open by the middle of January. The trailing 

 shoots are pretty, for both stem and leaves are clothed 

 with crimson hairs. C. gloriosa grows well in a basket 

 lined with moss and filled with a light compost of peal, 

 leaf mound, chopjietl sphagnum, and sand. The 

 branches easily bend, and lo furnish the basket can lie 

 pegged down to the peat, ami when the lop is furnished 

 the other growths may be allow^nl lo hang downwards. 

 Another way of growing it is by pegging it to an old 

 tree fern stem or post covered with peat. C. gloriosa 

 is a native of Costa Rica, and was presented to the 

 Glasnevin gardens bv Kew. 



