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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Mabch 12, 1008. 



GARDEN ROSES. 



Hybrid Teas Deserve Preference. 



At the Washington meeting of the 

 American Rose Society, Theodore Wirth, 

 Buperintendent of parks at Minneapolis, 

 made it clear that he is an enthusiast 

 on outdoor roses. He said the hybrid 

 tea rose will win for itself recognition 

 and preference as an outdoor rose, the 

 more its hardiness becomes known. It 

 is in reality this class which is entitled 

 to the name "perpetual bloomers" in 

 the proper sense of the word. I think 

 that hybrid remontant is the proper name 

 ior what we call now hybrid perpetual; 

 for the word remontant really means 

 what they do — bloom a second time 

 (once more), but not continually during 

 the season, as do the hybrid teas, teas 

 and polyanthas. 



Let us see what we have today among 

 the old standbys and newcomers well 

 adapted for outdoor culture. I do not 

 claim for all those I mention the title, 

 the best, for therein we differ according 

 to taste, experience and observation. I 

 simply mention them as varieties with 

 which I have been successful and which 

 Beem to me to merit a place in every 

 rose garden where climatic conditions 

 are congenial to their growth. Every 

 color and shade is represented. 



Remontants and Hybrid Teas. 



In white and shades we have the fol- 

 lowing hybrid remontants: Frau E^arl 

 Druschki, Mabel Morrison, Marchioness 

 of Londonderry, Margaret Dickson, 



Mavourneen, Perfection des Blanches, 

 Coquette des Blanches and Coquette des 

 Alpes. Hybrid teas: Augustine Guinoi- 

 seau, Helene Guillot, Kaiserin Augusta 

 Victoria, Mildred Grant, Marquise 

 Jeanne de la Chataigneraye, Souvenir de 

 Mme. Eugenie Verdier, Maman Cochet. 



In red and its many shades we. have 

 the following hybrid remontants : Etienne 

 Levet, General Jacqueminot, Gloire de 

 Margottin, Horace Vernet, Jules Mar- 

 gottin, Jubilee, Marie Baumann, Oscar 

 Cordel, Mme. Prosper Laugier, Reynolds 

 Hole, Robert Duncan, Sultan of Zanzi- 

 bar. Hybrid teas: Baldwin, Dean Hole, 

 Etoile de France, Mme. Ferdinand 

 Jamain, Grass an Teplitz, Liberty, Rev. 

 David R. Williamson, Richmond, Papa 

 Gontier. 



In rose or pink we find the following 

 hybrid remontants: American Beauty, 

 Anna de Diesbach, Baroness Rothschild, 

 Baronne Prevost, Clio, Caroline de San- 

 sal, Comtesse Cecile Chabrillant, Coun- 

 tess of Rosebery, Duchesse de Vallom- 

 brosa, Dupuy Jamain, Eugenie Verdier, 

 Heinrich Schultheis, Helen Keller, La 

 Reine, Mme. Gabriel Luizet, Magna 

 Charta, Marchioness of Downshire, Mar- 

 chioness of Dufferin, Marguerite de St. 

 Amande, Marquise de Castellane, Mrs. 

 John Laing, Mrs. R. G. Sharman Craw- 

 ford, Oakmont, Paul Neyron, Pride of 

 Waltham, Rev. J. B. M. Camm, Suzanne 

 Marie Rodocanachi, Victor Verdier. 

 Hybrid teas: Captain Christy, Caroline 

 Testout, Dr. J. Campbell Hall, Killarney, 

 La France, Mme. Abel Chatenay, Maman 

 Cochet, Mrs. W. J. Grant, Reine Marie 

 Henriette, Miss Kate Moulton. 



James J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, 

 Mass., has attained to his eightieth year 

 and practically the whole of his long 

 business life has been spent in the seed 

 trade. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOOETY. 



Special Prizes. 



The large list of specials betokens a 

 most creditable interest in the coming 

 rose show. August F. Poehlmann, Mor- 

 ton Grove, 111., is manager. George 

 Asmus, 879 West Madison street, Chi- 

 cago, 111., is assistant manager, and 

 will be in charge of exhibits. 



Send an application for entry to T. 

 E. Waters, secretary of the Chicago 

 Florists' Club, or file with Benjamin 

 Hammond, secretary of the American 

 Rose Society. 



It is urgently desired that all intend- 

 ing exhibitors will let the committee 

 know early what they will send. Last 

 year, at Washington, exhibitors delayed 

 doing this until the last day in the 

 afternoon, and the result was that the 

 extent of the exhibits was really not 

 known until they were on the ground, 

 and this rush made it hard work to 

 handle. It is now safe to say that the 

 finest and newest of roses will be seen 

 in the Art Institute from March 25 to 

 27 and that the general display will be 

 elegant. 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec'y. 



Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



The following list of special prizes, 

 constituting Class F, is complete as far 

 as reported to March 5: 



F. 145. Fifty blooms American Beauty roae, 

 the American Rose Society's prizes, |60 and |26. 



F. 146. Display, of cut roses, all ▼arletlM, 

 tlie Dorrance challenge prize, valued at |260, 

 offered by Benjamin Dorrance; the winner to 

 hold the prize a year and, on relinquishing it to 

 the society for another competition at the end 

 of that period, to receive a sliver shield suit- 

 ably engraved as a permanent record of hi* 

 having held the prize. The names of the win- 

 ners will be engraved consecutively on the 

 lu-ize. 



F. 147. For outdoor roses in bloom. In poti, 

 $200 cash for first prize, by Philip Breitmeyer, 

 of 'Detroit; also $100 cash for second price, bj 

 Arthur T. Boddington, of New York city. For 

 the best exhibit of outdoor roses in pots or tuba 

 in bloom. Exhibits to consist of 150 plants, 

 not more than five plants of one variety; each 

 to be correctly labeled, but may Include all 

 types and classes suitable for outdoor planting. 



F. 148. Vase of Richmond, 100 blooms, $50 

 in gold, offered by E. G. Hill Co., Richmond. 

 Ind. 



F. 149. Fifty blooms of any variety ot 

 American origin now in commerce, a silver 

 cup, value $25. offered by Alexander Montgom- 

 ery, Natick, Mass. 



F. 100. For the largest and most varied 

 collection of cut roses of all classes, one or 

 more blooms in a vase, the variety to count 

 sixty-five points, a silver cup or $25 in gold, 

 offered by W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. J. 



F. 151. Twenty-five blooms La Detroit, $28. 

 offered by John Breltmeyer's Sons, Detroit, 

 Mich. 



F. 152. The vase of roses showing the moat 

 artistic arrangement in the exhibition, $25, ot' 

 fered by Welch Bros., Boston. 



F. 153. For the most beauUfnl exhibit in the 



Jftly Show of Japanese Irises at EstabUshment of Rowehl & Granz, Hicksville, L. L 



