VARIETY IN FLOWERS OF EARLY SU]MMER 23 



remaining son has since been taken." Souvenir de Claudius 

 Fernet is more, much more than a beautiful creation in roses. 

 It is the dearest of tributes by a noble father to a noble son. 



It is this association of flowers with glorious deeds, with all 

 the beauty of the past and present, which makes the names of 

 flowers into little pathways of rewarding thought. "\Mio can 

 gaze upon the rose called Juliet and repeat to himself that name, 

 without a sense of romance, of tragedy, of all the Italian scene? 

 Who can see the picture of rose Dr. Van Fleet, without a sigh 

 of pity for us all that this modest, unassuming, really great man 

 in the world of flowers is no more? 



To return to his rose — one of the many beauties of this pale- 

 pink hardy climber is that each blossom is borne on a stem 

 twelve to eighteen inches long, and is perfect for use as a cut 

 flower as well as lovely on the bush, or rather, the vine. 



Los Angeles is a rose that I adore; another is Mrs. A. R. Wad- 

 dell ; another, Mme. Edouard Herriot. And by the name of this 

 last there hangs such a charming tale of M. Fernet, told again 

 by Admiral Ward, that it must be repeated here. 



It was in the spring of 1912, at the London Horticultural 

 Society's International Show. "The London Daily Mail" says 

 Admiral Ward, "had offered a gold cup for the best seedling 

 rose of the show, coupled with the condition that it should be 

 named after the paper. The jury unanimously awarded its 

 medal to Madame Edouard Herriot as the best seedling. But 

 when it came to the question of changing the name to qualify 

 for the Daily Mail cup, Fernet quietly remarked : * In my coun- 

 try, we do not de-baptize a lady. That rose remains Madame 

 Herriot.' And Madame Herriot it is. But he got his cup all 

 the same." 



And now with what pleasure I set before the reader a picture 

 of a rose-garden in England. Tell me if you have seen before 



