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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE, 



[February 3, 1912. 



THE ROSARY. 



are orange-crimson. 



NEW ROSES OF THE N.R.S. " CATALOGUE. " 



IL— ROSES OF 1910. 



(Continued from p. 51.) 



The Marchioness of Waterford, H.T., is a 

 tricolor Rose, the outside of the petals salmon- 

 rose, the inside lighter and more silvery. 



Mary Countess of Ilchester, fl.T. — Sev- 

 eral of my friends think this Rose has a future 

 as a good garden Rose, but I have little per- 

 sonal knowledge of it. The colour is carmine, 

 and the plant seems to flower freely. 



Mrs. A. E. Coxhead, H.T.— This Rose has 

 many good qualities as an exhibition Rose. The 

 form is good, and it is very fragrant, but I do 

 not like the colour, which is claret-red. Such 

 as it is, however, it keeps well. It received a 

 card of Commendation from the N.R.S. But for 

 the colour it would be a grand Rose. 



Mrs. Foley Hobbs, T., is likely to make a 

 good exhibition Rose. It is ivory-white, some- 

 times nearly self-coloured, sometimes with ;, 

 tinge of pink in the centre, which is very delicate 

 and pleasing. I think the pink colour is pro- 

 bably more often noticed in Roses grown under 

 glass or. when we get hot weather early in the 



season. The flower is fragrant. 



Mr. Fred Straker, H.T., is a decorative 

 Rose. The colour of the flower is salmon-pink 

 with a yellow base to the petals, and the buds 



The colour is both striking 

 and delicate, and I have thought so well of this 

 Rose that I planted a good batch of it last 

 autumn. It is not full enough for exhibition. 



Mrs. Herbert Stevens, T., is another )od 

 Tea-scented Rose with pointed white flowers. 

 Some call them white shaded with fawn, and 

 others say shaded with yellow, but the flowers I 

 have seen have been as nearly white as may be. 

 This Rose has been compared, not altogether 

 inaptly, to Innocente Pirola, and if it prove as 

 useful as that old favourite, it will be a useful 

 garden Rose, for it is hardy for a Tea. It was 

 well shown last autumn, and may perhaps give 

 exhibition flowers from time to time. 

 " Mrs. Leonard Petrie, H.T., promises to 

 make a good decorative Rose for the garden. It 

 is described as sulphur-yellow, but that hardly 

 expresses the colour shade. To my mind it is 

 rather a soft honey-yelknv ; that is, it has a 

 brownish shade, neither pink nor orange, which 

 is quite attractive. 



Mrs. Mayxard Sinton, H.T., is a gold medal 

 Rose and fragrant. Beside this, it will suffice to 

 say that it will probably make an exhibition 

 Rose for the back row. That is, it is a large 

 flower; colour, white, tinged pink. 



Rayon d'Or, Austrian Hyb.— It is probably a 

 long time since any new Rose created so much 

 interest as this has done. The chief points 

 about it seem to be its fine, deep, canary-yellow 

 colour and its bright, glossy, green foliage, which 

 looks well in the garden and is quite mildew- 

 proof. It is free-flowering and perpetual, but not 

 a very strong grower. So far as I can judge from 

 one year's experience, it does not seem affected 

 by that ugly habit of shedding its leaves in the 

 early autumn which is so disagreeable a feature 

 of some of its relatives, such as the Lyons Rose. 

 The flower itself is not very shapely, and the 

 petals are* rather floppy, so perhaps we may hail 

 its advent principally as a herald of good things 

 to come, a prospect that seems to be held out to 

 us by its raiser in a really wonderful simile. 

 " Such as the swallow is the pleasant messenger 

 of spring, Rayon d'Or bids us fair for a next 

 and future introduction of a marvellous set of 

 deep yellow-coloured Roses which will add a new 

 charm to the pleiads of these magnificent per- 

 petual-flowering varieties which nowadays adorn 

 our gardens." 



Recuerdo de A. Peluffo, T., a cross between 

 those two grand Roses Mme. Melanie Soupert 

 and Mme. Constant Soupert, ought to be a good 



Rose, and I think it is so. The Catalogue calls 

 the colour light yellow with a pink edge, but 

 the flowers I have seen are rather a chrome or 

 slightly brownish-yellow, with a deeper centre. 

 The flowers are large and well formed, and the 

 plants I have seem strong growers. 



9SILAGH Wilson. H.T., is a Rose I know 

 (liiefly by repute, though I put some plants 

 in my garden last autumn. It is said to be a 

 perpetual-flowering Carmine Pillar, and some 

 have said it is even better than that bright and 

 admirable Rose. I hope to see this year. It 

 has received a card of Commendation. 



Shower of Gold, Wich.— This is a beautiful 

 Rose, with golden yellow flowers, and magnifi- 

 cent foliage even for a Wichuraiana. I think it 

 is the best of its class that we have had for some 

 years, and all who have not got it should try it. 



Fig. 34. — the 

 conopsea 



[Photograph by /. A. fames. 

 WHITE VARIETY OF HABENARIA 



in mr. Bowles's garden. 



Theresa, H.T. — This Rose is a pretty colour 

 when it first opens, showing a mixture of several 

 shades of orange-apricot. It makes a well-grown 

 and shapely bush, and is fairly fragrant. That 

 is all I can say in its favour, for I have found the 

 colour quickly deteriorate and the plant badly 

 given to mildew. Perhaps last summer was too 

 hot for it, seeing that it was better earlv in the 

 year than later, but it has been a disappoint- 

 ment, though I propose to give it another chance. 



Viscountess Enfield, H.T., another of the 

 Pernet Ducher Roses, is promising. Coppery 

 old gold is the Catalogue description, but 

 the flowers in my garden have been nearer 

 a strawberry pink. The plants in my garden 

 have not been quite so strong-growing as Arthur 



R. Goodwin, but it seems hardy enough. The 

 points on which I am a little uncertain are (1) 

 whether it is sufficiently free-flowering, and (2) 

 whether it will keep its colour. I put in some 

 more plants last autumn to determine these 

 questions, and if the answer is favourable, 

 it will be a useful addition to our garden 

 Roses. I have seen it in exhibition boxes more 

 than once, but think it will not often be grown 

 for that purpose. 



Of Georges Reimers, said to be an improved 

 Richmond ; Mrs. W. Easlea, well spoken of as a 

 garden Rose ; and Reliance I have as yet no 

 personal knowledge. White Rose. 



(To be continued.) 



HABENARIA CONOPSEA ALBA. 



The accompanying illustration shows one of 

 my greatest treasures, a family group, mother 

 and daughter, of the white form of the fragrant 

 Orchis. The photograph was taken in my rock gar- 

 den in June, 1909, and it was six years earlier 

 that I found the plant growing wild in one of the 

 most delightful meadows I know of in Eng- 

 land. I was there entomologising with its owner, 

 who had invited me to stay with him for a day 

 or two among the rare varieties of one of the 

 Burnet moths that he had discovered there. 

 The insects were not so plentiful, however, as 

 w r e had known them a year or so earlier, this 

 family having an unexplained habit of disappear- 

 ing and reappearing suddenly in their habitats. 

 The meadow was left unmown for some seasons 

 to give the moths every chance, and its floral 

 wealth was surprising, even for a Sussex upland, 



but the chiefest jewel was this snow-white 

 Orchis. 



My kind host generously overruled my reluc- 

 tance to remove such a treasure from his keep- 

 ing* by saying that, very probably, if left there, 

 he would never chance to find it again, so it has 

 found a home and many admirers in my rock 

 garden. Fortunately, this species will thrive in 

 a garden, and even increase, as the two flower- 

 spikes of the picture show. When I found it, 

 the single plant bore a spike no larger than that 

 of the smaller plant now shown, and lately, 

 when I replanted it, I found four separate 

 plants. Mr. A. D. Webster, in his delightful 

 book, British Orchids, records one found by Mr. 

 Reambottom in Ireland, and I quote his account 

 of it to show I am not alone in praising its 

 beauty. "The whole plant measured 21 inches 

 in length, with shining, green, lanceolate leaves, 

 and had a most magnificent spike of paper-white 

 flowers. The flower-spike alone was 6 inches in 

 length, remarkably compact, and deliciously fra- 

 grant. Half-a-dozen such flowers as this would 

 certainly grace a spare corner in any Alpine gar- 

 den." E. A. Bowles, Waltham Cross. 



PLANT NOTE. 



STROBILANTHES DYERIANUS 



Strobilanthes Dyerianxjs is the most gener- 

 ally cultivated species of the genus, being largely 

 grown in plant stoves as an ornamental foliage 

 plant. But I have often considered the plant 

 well worthy of cultivating as a flowering subject. 

 The supplementary illustration (Gardeners r 

 Chronicle, January 20, 1912) shows its confreres 

 flowering as profusely in India as Buttercups in 

 an English meadow. For decorative purposes 

 young, quickly-grown plants of S. Dyerianus 

 should be relied upon, growing them in tropical 

 conditions. Cuttings should be pinched when 

 rooted to induce from six to eight growths to- 

 break. Plants treated in this manner will flower 

 satisfactorily in 5-inch pots. After the flower- 

 heads appear the plants may, with advantage, 

 be given cooler and more airy quarters, and they 

 will remain in a good condition for a long time. 

 Fred. W. Jeffery, Woodend Gardens, Renfrew- 

 shire. 



