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TEE GARDENERS' CERONICLE. 



[SEPTEMBER 8, 1888. 



fronted by a few young ornamental trees, and some 

 few flowering plants are dotted about, but you soon 

 begin to find that everything is subordinated to the 

 Rose, and it is this determination to put the Rose 

 culture before everything else that has enabled Mr. 

 F. Cant to get into the very front rank as a grower 

 of the flower. A few yards away on the east of the 

 dwelling there are wide borders filled with robust 

 Teas worked on the seedling Brier or cutting-struck 

 Brier. These plants are never lifted and never pro- 

 tected in any way, and yet there were no gaps in 

 the rows but those caused by digging out to com- 

 plete orders, and the shoots made were exceedingly 

 robust. Many of the varieties possessed beautiful 

 flowers, the majority of which would not disgrace 

 an exhibition in June. The following are a few of 

 such: — Souvenir d'un Ami, Souvenir d'Elise, Rubens, 

 a flower which has been fine all through this season ; 

 Perle de Lyon, Niphetos, Marie van Houtte, Madame 

 Willermoz, Devoniensis, still finding admirers for 

 its peculiarly agreeable scent; Jean Ducher, a pro- 

 digious flowerer — so many flowers appeared that 

 they could not expand, and required to have the 

 buds reduced in numbers. 



A large border was wholly filled with Marechal 

 Kiel, in standards and half-standards — these plants 

 were still bearing flowers and had borne enormously. 

 That fine variety, Ulrich Brunner, than which no 

 other Rose has been seen so good this year, does 

 well here ; it is a robust grower and possesses a good 

 habit. In these borders there were fine blooms of 

 Rosieriste Jacobs, a beautiful crimson Rose; of 

 Catherine Mermet, also excellent this season; and 

 of Duchess of Edinburgh (Veitch). 



The Rose quarters previously mentioned as lying 

 behind the dwelling-house cover at present an area 

 of 7|- acres, and contain about 35,000 dwarf Roses, 

 mostly worked very low on the Brier and Manetti, 

 the remainder — as many more — would be represented 

 by standards, half-standards, and climbing Roses. 

 Nothing could exceed the thrifty look of the stock 

 here, firm shoots, short-jointed, and a habit of great 

 compactness. It is not our intention to do more 

 than select a few of the new and newer varieties 

 observed in flower at the time. Vicomtesse Folke- 

 stone is a showy, light-coloured flower, of good form, 

 and a strong grower. It is erroneously called by 

 some persons a hybrid Tea, but the foliage is iden- 

 tical with that of most hybrid perpetuals, and would 

 seem to point to its belonging to that section. The 

 Bride (Henderson, New York, U.S.A.), is a white 

 Catherine Mermet, a sport from which variety it is ; 

 Countess of Pembroke, Earl Dufferin, Miss Ethel 

 Brownlow, a Tea-scented Rose, and Lady Helen 

 Stuart, the last three raised by Messrs. A. Dickson 

 & Son, Newtonards, have done well, and are 

 already much in request. For fuller particulars of 

 these and other new Roses of the year see our issue 

 for August 25 last, p. 207. It may be stated as Mr. 

 Cant's opinion that Miss E. Brownlow will take the 

 place of Madame Cusin, which it much resembles in 

 colour. 



Comtesse deNadaillac is a Rose which finds a ready 

 sale. Madame Eugene Verdier, a Tea-scented 

 variety, good for a pillar or a wall, canary-yellow — a 

 bouquetist's flower in the bud ; as is likewise Amazon, 

 with a flower like devoniensis in shape, but of deeper 

 tint. Ii is a weakly grower. Flowers of Innocenta 

 Pirola have grown this season to 6 inches in 

 diameter. 



Grand Mogul (W. Paul), a crimson-rose shaded 

 with maroon, is considered to be about equal to Jean 

 Soupert. 



Etoile de Lyon has grown well, but no fine blooms 

 have been produced here this season ; Ella Gordon 

 (Paul), of Victor Verdier form, has given much 

 satisfaction ; Victor Hugo has the colour of Xavier 

 Olibo, and grows better than that variety ; M. 

 Matbaron is very similar to Pitaud, but better — it is 

 a very dark coloured Rose. 



Silver Queen (W. Paul) is a small grower, but 

 still not delicate; it has grown and flowered 

 fairly well. 



Plants of Princess of Wales (Bennett) were 



Fig. 32. — pinus pyrenaipa. (see p. 267.) 

 A, Shoot and detached cone ; B, Foliage; C, Plan of section of leaf, 



observed ; Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild is a good 

 dark Rose of 1882, not seen often as yet ; Baronne 

 de Rothschild is very fine as an autumn Rose. 



Besides the area at Bergholt a large quantity of 

 stocks for working Roses on — viz., Manetti, seedling 

 Brier, and Brier cuttings — are planted at Mile End 

 Nursery, situated on the south side of Colchester. 



Here the land is heavy, and well suited for the 

 purpose of growing Roses. A small quantity of 

 general nursery stock is grown at Mile End, of 

 which it was remarked that the Cherries, Plums, 

 and Pears were the best. 



Mr. F. Cant is a young man endued with an 

 enthusiastic love of Roses, and considerable know- 



