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THE GARDENERS' 



CHRONICLE. 



[January 20, 1912 



EDITORIAL NOTICE. 



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Letters for Publication, as well as specimens or plants 

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 the Editor* early intelligent* of local events likely to be of 

 interest to our readers, or of any matters which it is desirable 

 to bring under the tiotice of horticulturists. 



Illustrations. The Editors will be glad to receive and to select 

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the only sound one. It asks that each new 

 book on gardening shall have some plain, 

 direct information to impart or that it 

 shall bring into the Study something of the 

 sweetness and light of the garden. 



Few experienced gardeners will, upon 

 reflection, deplore the publication of large 

 numbers of gardening books, for we all 



Roses, and to devote a considerable 

 amount of space to the consideration of 

 the art of pruning. To this subject 

 we do not know a better guide than 

 Mr. Darlington, who brings a severely 

 judicial mind to bear on the difficult 

 problem of how to treat members of 

 the different classes of Roses. Though, as 



know that horticulture is not, and never we have indicated, the author has received 



will be, an exact science. Every good gar- his training m the school of hard pruning, 



dener is a discoverer, has learned what he he states with impartiality the case of the 



knows from the garden, and has only used early school which believes in beginning 



books to prune his tree of knowledge, to prune Hybrid Perpetual* m February 



Hence every good gardener carries in his and finishing early in March. Then hav- 



head at least one good book on gardening, ing given the arguments of the late school, 



and has garnered experience which the he sums Up the casein the at first sigh 



wise among his fellows would be glad to cryptic aphorism, the longer the later, 



adding the explanation that the later in 



not the year the pruning is carried out the 



share. 



Gardening books, moreover, are 



APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. merely vehicles for the dissemination of less severe it should be 



TUESDAY, JANUARY 23- 



Roy. Hort. Soc. Corns, meet. (Lecture by Mr. H. 

 Morgan Veitch on M Horticulture and the Proposed 

 Taxation of Laud Values/*) Horticultural Club. (Lec- 

 ture bv Mr. Chas. E. Pearson on M Evolution of Colour 

 in Birds' Eggs.") 



WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24- Roy. Botanic Soc. meet. 



THURSDAY, JANUARY 25- 



Manchester and North of England Orchid Soc. meet. 



knowledge. They have other and no less 



Mr. Darlington holds equally sound 



worthy roles to fulfill. It is their function views on the subject of manures for Roses. 

 not only to impart information, but also Like Omar Khayyam, he migh exclaim: 

 both to serve as mediums of exchange of " I sometimes think that never blows so red 



enjoyment and to discharge a missionary 

 service — to convert the " heathen " who do 



the Rose as where some buried Caesar 

 bled " ; in other words, the ancient and the 



Average Mean Temperature for the ensuing week 

 deduced from observations during the last Fifty Year- 

 at Greenwich- 37*9°. 



Actual Temperatures: — 



London.— Wednesday, January 17 (6 p.m.): Max. 38°; 



Min. 33*. 

 Gardeners' Chronicle Office, 41, Wellington Street, 

 Covent Garden, London —Thursday January 18 

 (10 a.m.) : Bar. 29'6 P ; Temp. 37°; Weather— 

 Rain, with fog. 

 PnovitiCES.— WechicsJav, January 17: Max 45° Sligo ; 



Min. 28° Yorkshire. 



not garden to a fervent belief in gardening, modern writer ^ee that natural manures 



A book, therefore, which succeeds in any are to be preferred, though Mr. Darlington 



one of these roles is a good book, and de- is alive to the uses of artificials as acces- 



serves a welcome. Further, one which is sones to natural manures. 



SALES FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 



MONDAY and WEDNESDAY— 



Rose Trees, Fruit Trees, Perennial?, &c, at 12.30, 

 at Stevens's Auction Rooms, 38, King Street, Covent 

 Garden. 



MONDAY and FRIDAY— 



Liliums and Hardy Bulbs, Herbaceous Plants, at 12 ; 

 Roses, Fruit Trees. &c, at 1.30; at 67 & 68, Cheapside, 

 E.C., by Protheroe & Morris. 



WEDNESDAY— 



Perennials and Herbaceous Plants, Hardy Bulbs and 

 Roots, at 12; Roses and Fruit Trees at 1.30; Palms 

 and Plants, at 5; Trade Sale of Miscellaneous Bulbs 

 and Roots, at 12; Consignment of Japanese Liliums, at 

 2.30, at Protheroe & Morris's rooms. 



FRIDAY- 



Orchids, at Protheroe & Morris's rooms, at 12.45. 



successful in all three of the parts which 

 garden books may play merits a three-fold 

 welcome. Such a book is Mr. H. R. Dar- 

 lington's volume on Roses. 



It is a model of lucid exposition and a 

 mine of valuable information. It has, 

 moreover, that subtle charm which the 

 Rose knows how to bestow on those who 

 devote themselves to its cult. With a 



The most difficult of all subjects, and one 

 full of pitfalls to the amateur — that of the 

 selection of Roses— is dealt w T ith in a series 

 of chapters, which commence with the 

 Sweet Briars, and deal consecutively 

 with China Roses, Polyantha Pompons, 

 Ramblers, and Rugosas. The reader 

 who has mastered the views of the 

 author on the many and several parts 



royal arrogance, the flower refused to w hich Roses should play in the garden, in 

 accept the limitations of space within 

 which other flowers are confined in 



beds and borders, pillars and pergolas, in 

 hedges and houses, will find his task of 



-Present-day Gardening." As the blossom- selection ren dered surprisingly easy. 



ing of the Rose has ceased to be restricted 



A charming and all-too-brief chapter by 



by time the flower now repudiating Omar's Mr Darlington on .. Fragrance in Roses 



plaint Alas that spring should vanish with . , °, , , ,, t •_ iu rP 



lu~ t>^~ » _ u«„ *u« * * *»«—. — reminds us that even though, as in the re- 



the Rose," so has the queen of flowers ex- 

 tended an editor's concaption of space and 

 claimed a double volume of some 200 

 pages. That this extension of territory 

 was essential for the proper treatment of 

 the Rose is proved by the facts that there 



treat of the fair Laclv Corisande, no flower 

 without perfume was admitted to the gar- 

 den, the latter might yet be a garden of 

 Roses ; for a wealth of choice of sweet- 

 smelling Roses is presented among the 



Roses. * 



_, . • j * Luc itusc ia uiuvcu uv me ia.eis tnau mere — ™-© -—■* -* — — j^-w~™- — ~ ^ 



The censorious chide us for . g nofc & rfluous word m Mf Darli H.P.s, and fragrance may be had com- 



our many faults, telling us- Ws page ^ and ^^ ^ spite Qf tfae gpace bined with beauty ^ guch Hybrid Teas 

 among the many other things Rt hig commandj the author has been com _ 



pelled to resort to hard pruning in his 

 treatment of the Rose. As Mr. Darlington 

 states in the preface, affairs of theoretical 



times 



in the same breath deploring the multipli- 

 cation of books. For our part, we dare ^ 



scarcely hope that the former charge will interest, such as the history of the Rose, 



nor 



be levelled against us, and with respect to ^ave had, perforce, to be omitted, 



the latter, we frankly confess that we re- could space be found for such subjects as 



joice in the fact that of the making of books 

 on horticulture there is no end. No stu- 



as La France, its variety Augustine 

 Guinoisseau, and not a few others. ID" 

 deed, from any class fragrant Roses 

 are not lacking, and though all niay 

 not be enumerated here, mention must 

 be made of the Sweet Briar, with 

 " leaves very greene and sweete in snaell 

 above the leaves of any other kind of 



parsimony are synonymous. Nature her- 

 self is prolific, and sows not with the drill, 



hybridisation and the raising of new varie- 



ties. Only a rosarian who believed in Rose." Of these and of the scent from 

 dent of Nature believes that economy and hard prun i ng cou id have had the courage sheltering hedges of Lord Penzance's 



and discretion— to cut out such promis- Sweet Briars, Mr. Darlington speaks with 

 ing branches of his subject; but in coming a judgment and enthusiasm which would 



appear to be family characteristics. 



Later chapters are devoted to R° se 

 species and British Roses. The variation 

 among some of the indigenous species will 

 surprise many readers, and may be taken 



but with the lavish hand ; yet her apparent to this decision Mr. Darlington was wise, 



extravagance but just suffices: so the mul- p or a ft er all, the matters just referred to 



titude of books on gardening is none too are su bjects for special treatment, and 



large for the multitude of gardeners. The require a separate treatise. They most 



poor specimens soon succumb in the battle certainly could not be dealt with ade- „^_ w „ *v,«**w* 



of books. The harm they do perishes with quately, even within the already liberal as ^^01*0? the v^p^ratiiOities of^ 



them, and is, m any case, small, m com- space at his command. 



parison with the good which the good 



books do. The public is the best censor, f adjectives, Mr. Darlington is able, in 



and the test of fitness which it applies is the first five chapters of his book, to deal 



• "Present-day Gardening Series": Roses, by H. R. ™ th the ess entials of situation, soils, beds, 

 Darlington ; double volume, price 2s. 6d. and 8s. 6d. 



genus which it has been left in large rne*- 

 Thanks to a refreshingly temperate use sure to the present generations of rosarian* 



to discover. 



Last chapter of all — except for that de- 

 voted to the calendar— the common task, 



borders, planting, and transplanting of the daily round— is concerned with the fly 



