284 



Gardening for Amateurs 



pardon but he had left his knife among his 

 Roses. He had a magnificent Rose in his 

 coat. From information which I had re- 

 ceived I thought it my duty to watch his 

 movements without appearing to do so. He 

 left the tent with a much smaller flower in his 



feathered from that borrowed plume, but 

 keener far to feel, for it was a fact patent to 

 all, that if he had not made the addition he 

 must have won the premier prize." 



The Best Roses for Show. With regard to 

 the best Roses for exhibition I cannot do 

 better, I think, than quote 

 the names of the first few 

 Roses given in each table 

 of Mr. Mawley's " Rose 

 Analysis, 1905-1912," which 

 is reprinted in full from 

 the Journal of Horticul- 

 ture in the " Rose An- 

 nual of the National Rose 

 Society, 1913." These 

 tables cover twenty-six 

 years, and the Roses dealt 

 with are those that ap- 

 peared in the first, second 

 and third prize stands at 

 the National Rose Society 

 shows in London in July 

 each year. For Roses of 

 recent introduction the 

 longest trustworthy aver- 

 ages are given, but Mr. 

 Mawley states that the 

 influx of new varieties has 

 become so great that he 

 has decided in future analy- 

 ses to restrict the averages 

 for the established varieties 

 to six years instead of 

 eight, so as to enable newer 

 kinds to rise more rapidly 

 to their true position. 



HYBRID PERPETUALS AND 

 HYBRID TEAS. 



Tea Rose Mrs. Foley Hobbs, ivory white, excellent for 

 exhibition. 



button-hole, and I went immediately to his 

 box. There was the illustrious stranger, 

 resplendent, but with a fatal beauty. Yet 

 the cunning one had hoist himself with his 

 own petard, for he had forgotten another 

 bloom of the same rose already in his ' 24,' 

 and I at once wrote ' Disqualified for dupli- 

 cates ' upon his exhibition card: Keen must 

 have been the shaft which he had himself 



Mr. Mawley's complete 

 list gives a total of sixty- 

 eight Roses. The surpris- 

 ing fact about the list of the first twenty 

 is that there should be so many as eight 

 H.P.'s to twelve H.T.'s, thus demonstrating 

 that for size and colour the H.P.'s are 

 hard to beat, and that if fragrance counted 

 the H.T.'s would be in the minority. It 

 is noticeable that three of the first four 

 varieties named in the list are white Roses, 

 more or less pure. 



