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THE GARDENEBS' CHBONICLE. 



[December 1, 1868. 



This exhibitor had a close competitor in Mr. W. 

 Smith, gr. to J. Whitehead, Esq., Duxbury Hall. 

 Among Apples, a fine group for culinary purposes 

 was exhibited by Mr. Kirkman, and a collection of 

 Apples came from Mr. John Watkins, Withington, 

 not for competition. The vegetables were not numer- 

 ous, but some fine Cauliflowers and Potatos were 

 shown. The amateur exhibits were yery creditable. 



The Gardeners' Royal Benevolent In- 

 stitution. — A legacy of £50 has been bequeathed 

 to this Institution by the late Mrs. Sarah Cameron, 

 who was the widow of the late Mr. George 

 Cameron, for many years the respected head gardener 

 to the Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood Park, Sussex. 

 He was a life member of the Institution, and died 

 in 1870. 



National Rose Society.— The annual meet- 

 ing of this Society will be held at the rooms of the 

 Horticultural Club, Hotel Windsor, Victoria Street, 

 Westminster, on Thursday, December 6, at 3 p.m., 

 for the purpose of receiving the Treasurers' accounts, 

 electing officers for the ensuing year, sanctioning the 

 arrangements for 1889, and general business. The 

 annual dinner will take place the same evening at 

 6 p.m. at the same place. The chair will be taken by 

 Dr. Robert Hogg, one of the Vice-Presidents of the 

 Society, and a large attendance of members is 

 expected. 



Hartlepool Show : Noo. 28 and 29.— The first 



annual exhibition of this newly-formed Society far 

 exceeded the expectations of the committee. The 

 chief exhibitors and prize-takers were Messrs. J. 

 Short, Darlington ; T. Pattison, A. Taylor, Robert 

 Pool, Rink Gardens, West Hartlepool; J. Hall, 

 gr. to Alderman George Pyman, J.P. ; Maunder 

 Bros., Seaton Carew ; T. Gibbon, George Prince, W. 

 Snowball, B. C. Laycock, W. M. Burns, and J. Bain- 

 bridge, all of West Hartlepool. There were also 

 miscellaneous collections of cut flowers, fruits, and 



Roses. 



NEW ROSES. 



It may perhaps be of interest to supplement 

 " Wild Rose's " account of new Roses in 1888 

 (pp. 206-7), with a few notes on some additional 

 varieties not therein mentioned, but which, never- 

 theless, appear likely to prove valuable. There is 

 now little doubt that both this year and last will be 

 recorded as considerably above the average in the 

 novelties of interest distributed, and may compen- 

 sate for the great dearth of Continental addition of 

 value during the two previous seasons. The varie- 

 ties generally distributed in this country for the first 

 time last spring, include some very attractive Roses, 

 and on the principle of last come first served, shall 

 head the list : — 



Germaine Caillot (Pernet fils-Ducher). — This 

 beautiful Rose was figured in the Journal des Roses 

 just a year ago, and the plate, allowing for the ten- 

 dency in France to figure Roses in a state that, in 

 this country, would be considered rather too full- 

 blown, is one of the best that has been published in 

 M. Scipion Cochet's periodical, and gives a very 

 good idea of the erect habit, the beautiful colour, 

 and the texture of the substantial petals of this most 

 promising novelty. The reputed offspring of 

 Baroness Rothschild and Madame Falcot (a cross, 

 by the way, from which all these French hybrid 

 Teas seem to be raised), Germaine Caillot follows 

 the former in a robust, erect habit of growth, and in 

 having abundant foliage right up to the flower-buds. 

 The flowers are large, full, well-formed, and of a 

 most delicate flesh-colour; and, judging from blooms 

 seen under glass in the spring, and out-of-doors this 

 autumn, the variety may be described as quite first- 

 rate. 



Gloire de Margottin (Margottin). — This brilliant 

 hybrid perpetual has certainly a great many merits, 

 even if the question of its availability for exhibition 

 be regarded as an open one. On this point even, a 

 favourable opinion has lately been expressed by a 

 great authority, and for the rest, the variety is 

 vigorous, free, perpetual, forces most easily, and has 

 fragrant flowers of the most brilliant crimson colour. 



Gloire des Polyantha (Guillot). — A very beautiful 

 miniature pink Rose, raised from Mignonette, upon 

 which it is a great improvement. It makes a most 

 charming early forcing Rose in pots, and to plants 

 so grown and exhibited by Messrs. Paul & Son, of 

 Cheshunt, a First-class Certificate was awarded by 

 the Royal Horticultural Society. 



Golden Fairy (Bennett). — An addition to the pretty 

 miniature ever-blooming Polyantha Roses, which, if 

 its habit of growth be more compact and bushy 

 than that of Perle d'Or, will be valuable, the flowers 

 being of a similar tawny orange colour. 



Henrietta de Beauvau (Lacharme). — This, a climb- 

 ing Dijon Tea, recalling in its deep red stems and 

 dark foliage, Levet's Madame Eugene Verdier. The 

 flowers are clear yellow, of good size and form, and 

 the variety is likely to be useful both for exhibition 

 and as a vigorous climber. 



Kronpnnsessin Victoria (Vollert). — This Bourbon 

 comes from Germany, and is said to be a sport 

 from Souvenir de la Malmaison. The flowers are 

 very pretty, especially in bud and half-expanded, of 

 a pale lemon tint deeper in the centre, but becoming 

 nearly white in the full-bloom flower. It is recom- 

 mended for forcing, and certainly was charming 

 under glass in the spring, as it has been since out-of- 

 doors. 



Laurette Messimy (Guillot). — Only a China Rose, 

 but so bright and pretty in colour as to be well 

 worth growing. Most free and perpetual, the colour 

 being of the brightest rose with a yellow shade in the 

 centre of the flower — invaluable for bedding. 



L'ldeal (Nabonnand). — This vigorous Noisette 

 has been likened in a general way to William Allen 

 Richardson, but the flowers are not of a self- 

 colour as in that popular variety. Rose, yellow, and 

 orange are among the mingled shades of the strik- 

 ingly tinted flowers which in the bud state, will be 

 in great demand for cutting. The plant is a climber, 

 and a thorough autumnal Rose. 



Madame Hoste (Guillot). — A beautiful Tea scented 

 Rose that is likely to maintain the reputation of its 

 celebrated raiser. The plant is vigorous and free, the 

 flowers large, well formed, and of a delicate pale lemon 

 shade, while they are carried erect, and abundantly 

 produced in autumn. The firm of Guillot have 

 raised and sent out many of the most beautiful of 

 all the Teas, and there seems every probability that 

 it will be amongst these that Madame Hoste will 

 rank. 



Princess de Sayan. — (Dubreuil). — -A most brilliant 

 crimson Tea, flowering abundantly early and late. 

 If only the flowers can be grown large enough for 

 exhibition, this variety will make a most striking 

 addition in a box of Teas and Noisettes, for there is 

 nothing dull or heavy about the colour, and the 

 plant is a pure Tea. 



Bed Pet (Parker). — A China Rose that i3 always 

 covered with rich crimson flowers of good form, 

 though not individually very large. The colour 

 becomes especially rich in autumn, and the variety 

 is admirably adapted for bedding. 



Of the Roses sent out the previous year it will 

 probably prove that the hybrid perpetuals of value 

 will exceed the Tea-scented varieties, although the 

 latter are not by any means lacking in interest. 



Chateau des Bergeries (Ledechaux). — A pretty pale 

 yellow Tea, growing well, and blooming freely, with 

 flowers of good size and form. Some capital blooms 

 of it were produced early in the season. 



Claudine Perrean (Lambert) may be described as 

 an erect-growing Souvenir d'un Ami, the globular 

 rosy flowers being produced with very stiff stems 

 upon a vigorous bushy plant, which is always well 

 clothed with handsome foliage. 



Comte de Paris (Leveque). — A very promising rich 

 crimson hybrid perpetual, with large, well-formed 

 flowers ; very free, of a vigorous habit of growth, 

 and thoroughly perpetual. 



Br, Antonin Joly (Besson). — One of three probably 

 valuable additions to the salmon-rose colours, of 

 which the^flowers are very large, full, and abundantly 

 produced. 



Br. Grill (Bonnaire). — A most free-blooming and 



charming tawny-orange Tea-scented Rose, whose 

 flowers are well formed, and of good size. One of 

 the prettiest of the French Tees of its year. 



Madame Bois (C. Levet). — A Rose of Victor Ver- 

 dier race, but fragrant, more vigorous than the type, 

 and producing most freely very fine flowers of great 

 depth, and with a magnificent petal, bright, fresh 

 salmony-rose colour. A novelty that has been 

 greatly admired in the garden in spite of the bad 

 weather, and from which there were cut many beauti- 

 ful blooms early in June. 



Madame Dcsir (Pernet pere). — Somewhat in the 

 same line of colour as the preceding, but a Rose of 

 very great fulness, that will be seen to greater advan- 

 tage in a hotter season than the past. 



Madame Edouard de Bonnie-res de Wierre (Leveque) 

 is a handsome and free dark-crimson hybrid perpetual, 

 well formed, vigorous, and a free autumnal. Its 

 chief fault lies in its name, which wants " editing." 

 It has been suggested that Madame de Wierre should 

 be adopted as a more reasonable and a sufficient 

 appellation, and it may be hoped that the suggestion 

 will be acted upon. 



Madame Eticnne (Bernaix). — Another rosy Tea of 

 considerable promise, that seemed likely at one time 

 to prove the best Tea of its year. The plant is 

 perhaps rather lacking in vigour, but the flowers are 

 of good size, well formed, and distinct. 



Madame Henri Pereire (Vilin) was one of the most 

 conspicuous of the newer Roses at the exhibitions 

 this year, being frequently very finely shown by 

 Messrs. Paul & Son, of Cheshunt. The flowers are 

 large, and very rich in colour, being of a deep vel- 

 vetty crimson, shaded with almost black, while the 

 plant grows vigorously, and blooms well in autumn, 

 and is beyond question a very striking variety. 



Madame Joseph Bebois (Guillot). — A most beauti- 

 ful and refined variety of the highest type of beauty, 

 the flowers being large, erect, pure white shaded 

 with carnation in the centre, and freely produced 

 both early and late. The plant is not a tall grower, 

 but has the robust stiff growth of the Captain 

 Christy race, and appears certain in a fine season to 

 take a prominent position as a first-rate exhibition 

 Rose . 



Madame Treyve-Marie (Liabaud). — A flower of 

 the form of Marie Baumann — not so fine, bnt carried 

 erect, very free, and of a charming shade of fresh 

 rose colour, that proves attractive to almost every- 

 body. Probably the best Rose sent out by its raiser 

 since Madame Gabriel Luizet, ten years before. 



These are the pick of the 1886 — S7 Roses, and 

 with those previously described by " Wild Rose," 

 must be held to constitute the most promising lot of 

 novelties sent out for several seasons. 



Of the 1885 — 86 varieties, Max Singer (Lacharme), 

 said to be a seedling from Rosa multiflora and 

 General Jacqueminot, is a very useful red, climbing 

 Rose, producing throughout the season endless 

 trusses of well-formed bright cherry-coloured flowers. 

 Presumably " Wild Rose " considers it unnecessary 

 to mention The Bride, of the same date, as 

 being already generally known and admired ; but it 

 is worth noting that this Rose, the most valuable 

 contribution that has yet been made by America, is 

 already regarded as one of the best twelve varieties 

 of all the Teas and Noisettes. 



" Wild Rose's remarks about the other Roses sent 

 from America, and about Pride of Reigate, may be 

 fully endorsed, as well as his recommendation of 

 Gloire Lyonnaise (Guillot, 1883), Victor Hugo 

 (Schwartz, 1884), Lord Bacon (Wm. Paul, 1882), 

 especially valuable in the North, Susanne-Marie 

 Rhodocanachi (Leveque, 1883), a charming Rose 

 that has become very 'popular ; Comtesse de Frig- 

 neuse (Guillot, 1885), Souvenir de Gabrielle Drevet 

 (Guillot, 1884), and Viscountess Folkestone (Ben- 

 nett, 1886), a most lovely Rose, whose delicate flesh- 

 coloured flowers, of great size and beauty, and of de- 

 licious fragrance, combined with a vigorous and ever- 

 blooming habit, have already secured it almost 

 universal admiration, and render it a Rose for every- 

 one to grow, whether for its beauty in the garden, 

 for cutting, for forcing, or for exhibition. It9 con- 



