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The Florists' Review 



November 21, 1912. 



ROSE IRISH FIRE FLAME. 



A few years ago it was noticed in 

 London that people of taste showed a 

 marked preference for single roses. 

 Whenever obtainable they were used in 

 their table decorations, in their house 

 decorations and as gifts. To meet this 

 demand, the leading hybridizers abroad 

 devoted thought and skill to the pro- 

 duction of a class of single roses that 

 would combine grace, color and dura- 

 bility in the blooms. Vigor, freedom 

 of bloom and immunity from disease 

 were less difficult of attainment from 

 the very nature of the class. 



Irish Fire Flame is the most striking 

 variety of this class. It won the gold 

 medal at the national rose show at 

 London, but its introduction into this 

 country is due to a visit of Alexander 

 B. Scott to the rose growing establish- 

 ment of Alexander Dickson & Sons, at 

 Newtownards, near Belfast, Ireland, in 

 the summer of 1910. In their trial 

 grounds Mr. Scott first saw Irish Fire 

 riame. The rose charmed him. It had 

 the growing qualities and its color was 

 uniqup. The long, pointed buds were 

 bright scarlet. The open flower was a 

 coppery salmon. The keeping qualities 

 of Irish Fire Flame are remarkable for 

 a single rose with only five petals, due 

 partly to the great substance of tl^fise 

 petals. Possessed with the idea that 

 such a rose would appieal to those of 

 his friends who had true artistic dis- 

 cernment, Mr. Scott imported fifty 

 plants of Irish Fire Flame. Today he 

 has 3,000 plants. The house in which 

 they are growing, on his place at 

 Sharon Hill, Pa., is a beautiful sight. 

 The plants are a picture of health, 

 producing their attractive buds in pro- 

 fusion. The buds of Irish Fire Flame 

 are in demand among the leading flo- 

 rists. Mr. Scott's representative, the 

 S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., is said to 

 obtain $10 a hundred for this novelty 

 in a market that is much lower on al- 

 most ' kll other varieties. It is said 

 Irish Fire Flame will be disseminated 

 next spring. Phil. 



McQREDY'S NEW ROSES. 



At the September exhibition of the 

 National Rose Society, London, Eng- 

 land, the new variety, Mrs. Charles E. 

 Pearson, received the gold medal. The 

 exhibit is shown in the accompanying 

 illustration, Mrs. Charles E. Pearson 

 is a hybrid tea raised by Samuel Mc- 

 Qredy & Son, Portadown, Ireland, who 

 believe it is one of the best things they 

 thus far have produced. They state 



that it had been constantly in bloom 

 since June. They had only one line of 

 it in the nursery this season and 

 worked quite 5,000 stock from it, 

 besides cutting blooms for all the 

 principal exhibitions. So sanguine are 

 they that they believe the variety will 

 be the most popular bedding rose in 

 existence when it becomes known. The 

 color is a deep orange apricot, flamed 

 crimson. The originators assert that it 

 is a great improvement on the cele- 

 brated Lyon rose, surpassing it in ef- 

 fectiveness, as the color never varies. 

 The bloom is held rigidly upright and 

 is produced with a freedom rarely 

 equaled among hybrid teas. The origi- 

 nators say it is twice as free flowering 

 as the Lyon and that it holds its fo- 

 liage as in a true hybrid tea. 



Concluding their letter to The Ee- 

 view, McGredy & Son say: "You will 

 no doubt get a good turn of our new 

 rose Colleen, on which the E. G. Hill 

 Co. has secured the American rights. 

 This is a great improvement on Killar- 

 ney, being a better grower, freer bloom- 

 ing anxl twice as double, with a greater 

 depth of petal, brighter and more beau- 

 tiful in color. There is no other rose 

 in cultivation that has the grandeur 

 of form that this rose has. The im- 



pressiveness of the flower, even in old 

 blooms, is marvelous. It never goes 

 off color, and retains its lovely shape 

 and form in good condition longer than 

 any variety we are acquainted with. 

 It makes strong canes and holds its 

 blooms rigidly upright. The E. G. Hill 

 Co. gave it a semi-test last year and 

 Mr. Hill was so impressed with its 

 value as a forcing rose that he is giv- 

 ing it full test this year, and believes- 

 it will supersede every other variety 

 in your country for forcing purposes, 

 and as a bread and butter winner will 

 take the lead as a market variety. You 

 will no doubt get a good turn in this 

 rose, once it is in shape for issuing.'' 

 From which it will be seen that these, 

 like other seedling raisers, have the 

 modesty of the violet. 



THE LEADING ROSARIAN. 



Alexander B. Scott takes issue with 

 his friend, E. Gurney Hill, on the state- 

 ment that the name of Pernet-Ducher 

 is entitled, to first place in the list of 

 producers of new roses of merit. While 

 Mr. Scott frankly admits the force of 

 all that Mr. Hill says in favor of the 

 great French hybridizer, he is confi- 

 dent in the belief that the name of 

 Dickson ranks that of his rival from 

 sunny France. The facts that Mr. 

 Scott gives in support of his claim for 

 the supremacy of the Irish rosarian 

 are formidable: Alexander Dickson & 

 Sons, of Newtownards, Ireland, orig- 

 inated the great rose Killarney. What 

 florist in this country does not owe 

 them an immense debt of gratitude for 

 this single achievement? They pro 

 duced Liberty, a grand rose that 

 enabled Mr. Hill to give us his superb 

 Richmond, the rose that was selected 

 to be presented to the President of the 

 United States by the American Eose 

 Society in Washington, D. C, March 

 14, 1907. They have produced Harry 

 Kirk, considered one of the best out- 



New Bedding Rote Mrs. Charles E. Pearson. 



