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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEB 19, 1011. 



! >MH. PESH^T-PUCHEB. 



TS^|Slrecompanyiii§| Reproduction of a 

 recent photograph gives the readers of 

 The Eeview a glimpse of the kindly 

 face of the greatest rosarian the world 

 has yet produced. The writer believes 

 that this statement will not be contra- 

 di|lbd. Tk^^plbses. th«1_ 

 duced staiw^i^i'^reeminent'7 -,_^^ 

 riched our Tilts with nu>re variel 

 sterling value than any other hybrid-, 

 ist, and still he works on, a modest and 

 keenly intelligent rose grower. 



M. Jh. ' Pernet-Ducher has given us 

 the following sorts: Soleil d'Or, Prince 

 de Bulgarie, Mme. Eavary, Souvenir du 

 President Carnot, Mme. Caroline Tes- 

 tout, 1 'Innocence, Mme. Abel Chatenay, 

 Gustave Regis, Mme. Pernet-Ducher, 

 Antoine Bivoire, Marquise de Salis- 

 bury, Le Progres, Monsieur Joseph Hill, 

 Etoile de France, Marquis de Sinety, 

 Mme. Melanie Soupert, Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward, Mme. Maurice de Luze, Laurent 

 Carle, Lyon-Bose, Beaute Inconstante, 

 Marie van Houtte, William Allen Eich- 

 ardson, Baronne de Eothschild, Cha- 

 teau des Clos Vougeot. 



Several of these varieties have been 

 grown by the tens of thousands an- 

 nually in various parts of the world. 

 About 50,000 Mme. Caroline Testout 

 are planted each year on the Pacific 

 slope of our own country, to say noth- 

 ing of the number used in Europe. 

 Probably this is at present the most 

 popular of the Pernet varieties. 



A visit to his nurseries is always in- 

 tensely interesting, especially in June, 

 when most of his trial seedlings are in 

 bloom. He certainly seems to have the 

 breeding of roses down to a science. 

 Whether under the Mendellian theory 

 or not, I do not know, but I am sure 

 that he is working by a well defined and 

 successful plan; his seedlings show it. 

 His yearly offerings of his new roses 

 run in number from one to four in 

 variety, seldom over three sorts, and 

 this very fact inspires confidence in 

 their value. Too many new sorts are 

 annually placed on the market, to the 

 bewilderment of those who would enjoy 

 the testing of the year's novelties. If 

 the Pernet plan were established as a 

 precedent it would certainly work to 

 the advantage of the rose trade in 

 general. 



A visit to the Bagatelle gardens at 

 Paris reveals unmistakably the stand- 

 ing of Pernet. The records show that 

 he has captured the gold medal offered 

 by the city of Paris on three if not 

 four different occasions for the best 

 new rose of the year. He has also been 



presented with the medal of honor 'of 

 the National Horticultural Society of 

 Prance. 



A day spent with Mr. Pernet im- 

 presses one with his enthusiasm', his 

 passionate love for the rose, as Veil 

 as his utter modesty, which does not .at 

 all prevent his appreciation of ; the 

 value of the seedlings that he has been 

 able to add to the lists. A visitor to 

 his place has a great pleasure vouch- 

 safed him, and Mr. Pernet sparepi no 

 pains in making the visit o^sj^Kipg in- 

 terest. Sev<yal tini^s duu^^^his last 

 Lfteen yea^|pb£,s tfi^xWritlm enjt^ed.his 

 lOtpitality ant^!|)||{||n»i nlore his keenly i 

 accurate estimate of the values of- the 

 whole catalogue of roses, new and old. 

 The addition of the splpndid family of 

 hybrid teas, which numbered but a few 

 «orts when he began his work, has 



wrought a complete revolution in that 

 time in the cultivation of roses. 



Looking down into the heart of :. 

 Lyons rose, a Caroline Testout or a Clos 

 Vougeot makes one exclaim, : * * What 

 more can even Pernet give usf" Af; 

 a present culmination, however, he has 

 produced the grandest yellow rose ex 

 tant, which will be disseminateid simul 

 taneously in Europe and Ameri4a in the 

 spring of 1912, under the name of Sun- 

 burst. It is a big rose,' large in growth 

 and foliage, wonderfully long in bud, 

 and the color is of such intense shades 

 of orange and yellow that words fail 

 to describe it. The sepals are prom- 

 inent and of a high shade oi green. 

 What is of most interest to the rose 

 grower is the fact that it is a grand 

 forcer under our American conditions,, 

 easy to manage, free, and a fine keeper. 



E. G. Hill. 



ROSES m CUBA. 



Nothing so delights fienj. H^mn^^;id,. 

 secretary of the American Rose ppi^ieij, 

 as to have some one in a far corner 

 write to hirn about roses— it is the evi- 

 dence of widespread interest that 

 pleases the secretary. Here isja letter 

 he .received the other day: 



Dear-i Mr. Hammond.: ,1 am .inu<;h Interested 

 In ros^dTTbut 1 find Mt 'hard tb take the rfe- 

 UVittlons' df' Bit^ Amerlcfiit rote firms and 

 make them all give the results desired. I 

 have the following kinds which have done well 

 for me in Cuba, and I sbonld be glad if yoi» 

 would suggest some additions, and where they 

 can be secnred, and I shall be glad to try themi 

 out. I bud them all on a non-blooming stock 

 we have here in Cuba. It is easily rooted,. 



Bom Sunbttnt. 



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