August 2S, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



25 



At the Conventioa of the Canadian Florists' and Gardeners' Association, at Peterboro, Ont. 



geranium cuttings was enormous, there 

 being more than 45,000 lost in Beaute 

 Poitevine alone. 



B. F. Barr extended a general invita- 

 tion to any members of the craft who 

 might be passing through Lancaster, Pa., 

 to join with the Florists' Club in a corn 

 roast at the Barr homestead the eve- 

 ning of Thursday, August 25. Mrs. Barr 

 was to assit in doing the honors. W. M. 



PENNOCK ON NEW ROSES. 



Writes of Bagatelle Awards. 



Samuel S. Pennock, last week elected 

 president of the Society of American 

 Florists, had the honor Juno 15 of being 

 the American representative on the 

 board of judges at the Bagatelle rose 

 gardens, Paris. At the meeting of the 

 jurors that day Mr. Pennock was elected 

 vice-president representing the United 

 States. In a lengthy letter telling of 

 his trip abroad, Mr. Pennock describes 

 the roses which took the awards at 

 Paris. He writes: 



"The rose that stood out head and 

 shoulders above any other rose was 

 Pernet-Ducher's hybrid tea gold medal 

 rose of last year, Souvenir de Claudius 

 Pernct, named in honor of his son, 

 whom he lost in the war. Mixed in 

 the bed were also a few plants of Per- 

 net-Ducher's hybrid tea rose, Mme. Wil- 

 liam Marcel Dalanney, a medium pink, 

 with full, large flowers. 



"Claudius Pernet is certainly a won- 

 derful rose, a rich canary yellow, fading 

 out as it gets older to a lighter shade; 

 large, full; long, well-shaped bud and as 

 large as any hybrid tea rose in the gar- 

 den. These flowers were borne on fairly 

 long stems, well foliaged, holding their 

 heads perfectly erect. It certainly was 

 •''• joy to see this bed; it was well worthy 

 of the name it bore. It is too bad that 

 this rose is not a forcer, but the con- 

 sensus seemed to be that it was not and 

 would go to sleep in the winter. In fact. 



I saw it growing at W. T. H. Kordes' 

 father's greenhouse, in Elmshorn, Ger- 

 many, in the middle of April, and it was 

 just coming into bloom then and had 

 been dormant nearly all winter. Prob- 

 ably there is too much Pernetiana blood 

 in it to make it a winter forcer. 



Howard & Smith's No. 252. 



"The rose that captured the foreign 

 gold medal this year was Howard & 

 Smith's hybrid tea rose, No. 252. Per- 

 net-Ducher's Souvenir de Georges Per- 

 net was given the French gold medal. 

 Howard & Smith's rose. No. 252, is 

 pronounced Indian yellow in color. The 

 outer petals fade out somewhat. It is a 

 good-sized rose, full, double. Its shape, 

 when it is more than half open, is not 

 quite so pleasing as when it is in bud 

 or fully open. A good grower, with 

 splendi(r-~€©ligge and good stems, the 

 rose attracted the judges immediately 

 and was well worthy of the gold medal. 



"Pernet-Ducher's hybrid tea rose, 

 Souvenir de Georges Pernet, named 

 after his second son, whom he lost in 

 the war, is large, well formed, fairly 

 dark pink, a decidedly promising rose 

 and a good, free grower. I do not 

 think it has the same possibilities as a 

 garden rose as Claudius Pernet, although 

 a splendid pink rose it is. Roth these 

 roses of Pernet-Ducher are in a class 

 by~tliomselves. 



" Each year four certificates arc award- 

 ed, three for hybrid teas and one for 

 climbing or polyantha roses. The first 

 certificate was awarded to Pernet- 

 Ducher's rose, Etoile de Feu, which 

 scored 9% points. It is similar in color 

 to Herriot. I should think it was an 

 improvement as to growth and size of 

 flower, but not so striking in color. 



"The second certificate was awarded 

 to a hybrid tea seedling of Chambard, 

 Huguette "Vincent, with dark green foli- 

 age, carrying on an erect stalk a big 



flower, half double, with large petals; 

 the color, carmine. 



"The third certificate was awarded 

 to Leender's hybrid tea. Aspirant Mar- 

 cel Eouyer, one of the parents being 

 Sunburst and the other unknown. This, 

 to my mind, seemed the best rose of the 

 three that were awarded certificates. 

 Apparently a free, easy grower, similar 

 in shape to Mrs. Aaron Ward, flowers 

 much the same color, possibly a shade 

 lighter, much larger and longer bud, 

 to me it looked like a good forcing rose. 

 If it proved to be a better rose than 

 Ward as a greenhouse rose from a grow- 

 er 's standpoint, it would certainly be a 

 valuable acquisition for the commercial 

 man. It impressed me, probably, far 

 more than any of the rest of the judges, 

 and the reason for this was that the 

 others were not looking at it so much 

 from the forcing standpoint as I was. 



"The fourth certificate, unfortunate- 

 ly, was not awarded, as there was noth- 

 ing in cither climbers or polyanthas 

 that seemed to be worthy. 



Paul's Scarlet Climber. 



"In the climbers, Paul's Scarlet 

 Climber stood out in the garden as by 

 far the best. I was told that it had 

 been in bloom for over two weeks, and 

 it was, still in fine shape and attracted 

 the public probably more than any 

 other one rose in the gardens. There 

 were several plants of Paul 's Scarlet 

 Climber and one group of four ]ilants 

 trained up in pyramid sha])e made a 

 wonderful show. This is rather an at- 

 tractive way to train climbers, espe- 

 cially when they arc as free bloomers as 

 Paul's Scarlet Climber, which presented 

 almost a solid, vivid red mass. 



"Aimile Ncrine, one of Nonin's seed- 

 lings, much on the order of Excelsa, 

 but light in color and coming into bloom 

 much earlier, was attractive and looked 

 like a promising climber. The jmblic 

 admired it greatly." 



