40 BRITISH FLORAL DECORATION 



England now annually exports special varieties of 

 Roses in huge quantities to Paris, and even Berlin 

 and Hamburg and other important continental 

 towns. One English firm alone exported last 

 year to France and Belgium many hundreds of 

 Wichurianas in pots, and I sent numbers of them 

 in full bud to Germany. 



We hear from America of the wonders of the 

 American Beauty and American Roses generally, 

 but some years ago I had the pleasure of escorting 

 the leading Rose-grower of America to one of the 

 great English nurseries at Uxbridge, where Roses are 

 grown for cutting only, and he was bound to admit 

 that he had never seen anything half as fine on his 

 side of the Atlantic. 



If any English grower could be sure of getting 

 the prices that prevail in America for specimen Rose 

 blooms, I am confident Messrs. Low, of Uxbridge, 

 Messrs. Rochford,of Rochfordville in Hertfordshire, 

 and others, would have no difficulty in producing 

 them, but how many English people are there who 

 would pay a dollar each for cut Roses in quantity ? 

 My experience tells me they are very few and 

 far between. Yet this is the price at which hun- 

 dreds are sold daily in New York. As I write 

 I have before me a list of prices from the leading 



