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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[February 24, 1912. 



AMERICAN NOTES. 



THE ROSARY. 



CARNATIONS. 



Among the new Carnations introduced by 

 American specialists, Benora, a superb variegated 

 variety sent out by Mr. Peter Fisher, Ellis, Mass., 

 holds first place. Sales of rooted cuttings of these 

 varieties several months ago were over 100,000. 

 People have great confidence in anything Mr, 

 Fisher sends out ; he has given us Enchantress, 

 Mrs. T. W. Lawson, Beacon, Mrs. Patten, and 

 other noteworthy varieties. He secured the 

 Gold Medal recently at the Carnation , Con- 

 vention and Exhibition in Detroit, Mich., with 

 Gorgeous, a magnificent cerise variety, which 

 will probably be placed on the market a 

 year hence. Other fine novelties are "Wodenethe, 

 being sent out by Charles H. Totty, Madison, 

 N.J., an immense, purs-white flower, and St. 

 Nicholas, an excellent scarlet, from Messrs. Baur 

 and Steinkamp, Indianapolis. Of the disseminated 

 varieties, Beacon leads as a scarlet, but Scarlet 

 Glen and "Victory each have admirers. In whites, 

 White Enchantress is undoubtedly the most 

 largely grown ; White Wonder has proved 

 very popular, while there are many who 

 still grow White Perfection. In light pinks, 

 which are the best sellers on the markets. En- 

 chantress still leads in numbers grown, but Pink 

 Delight is pushing it hard for supremacy, and is, 

 perhaps, the most popular sort we have to-day. 

 Gloriosa. sent out in 1911, a little darker 

 than Pink Delight, will be more grown 

 next year. Princess Charming, a little darker 

 than Enchantress, will also be popular. May 

 Day is not being so much planted, and Fair 

 Maid merely for summer flowering. In dark 

 pinks, Dorothy Gordon, hardly distinguishable 

 from rose-pink Enchantress, is considerably 

 grown, also Sangamo. Nothing has yet dis- 

 placed Harry Fenn as a crimson. In yellow we 

 have practically nothing but Golden Ray, a 

 novelty which gives promise of being a valuable 

 acquisition. 



SWEET PEAS. 



Sweet Peas outdoors are of very poor quality 

 here when compared with the flowers grown in 

 Britain. This is not surprising when our in- 

 tensely hot and dry summers are considered. 

 Last July we had shade temperatures of 100° 

 to 106° for nearly a fortnight. It is difficult to 

 obtain good flowers under such climatic condi- 

 tions. Our best flowers are produced at Bar Har- 

 bour, U.S., and other shore resorts, where the 

 night temperatures are lower, and where the 

 atmosphere is more humid. Our new National 

 Sweet Pea Society is doing a grand work towards 

 popularising the Sweet Pea. The president, Mr. 

 William Sim, is an energetic Scotchman, who 

 has a large commercial establishment at Clifton- 

 dale, Mass., where the highest-grade single 

 Violets and Sweet Peas in the eastern States are 

 produced in immense quantities under glass. The 

 secretary of the society, Mr. H. A. Bunyard, is 

 an Englishman from Maidstone, Kent, and is the 

 right man in the right place. A summer show is 

 arranged for, to be held in Boston on July 13 

 and 14 next. We have no individual prize of 

 £1.000 for 12 sprays, but $2,500 are offered, 

 which should bring out a grand exhibition, unless 

 some protracted heat-wave should greatly injure 

 the plants. 



Our markets here in winter are really better 

 supplied with Sweet Peas than in summer, and 

 the quality now is very much better than in 

 the hot months. The special forcing strains of 

 Burpee and Zvolanek are chiefly used, and 

 big, light, airy houses devoted to their 

 culture. The Spencer varieties seen now are 

 used for spring and early summer flowering. Some 

 growers will this year endeavour to grow Sweet 

 Peas under glass through the summer, in order 

 to secure better flowers ; with very large and well- 

 ventilated houses this should prove successful. 

 IViUiam N. Craig, North Easton, Mass.. 

 U.S.A. 



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



ROSES INTRODUCED IN 1909. 



(Concluded from p. 100.) 



Entente Cordtale, Austrian Hyb. — This is 

 Guillot's Rose of that name, and is quite distinct 

 from that of Pernet Ducher, which is creamy- 

 white, while Guillot's Rose is coppery-yellow 

 edged rose or pink, a very soft and pretty colour. 

 It is a strong grower, but scarcely a semi- 

 climber; in my garden it seems likely to make a 

 fair-sized bush ; the flowers are produced in little 

 clusters at the ends of the shoots. It is only 

 semi-double, but quite, attractive. So far I have 

 not found it very free flowering, but it may im- 

 prove in this respect when it gets established. 



Excelsa, Wich. — This Rose seems now finally 

 settled among the Wichuraianas, to which class 

 its lax and sinuous stems seem properly to refer 

 it, though at first it was often classed as a multi- 

 flora. It is of the late-flowering section, and the 

 flowers are semi-double and a good bright-crim- 

 son colour. When it was first shown on plants 

 grown under glass and in pots, everyone was say- 

 ing, " Shall we get this grand colour out-of- 

 doors? " 

 near it. 



Well, I think we do, or something very 

 Anyway, it is the best double Rose of 

 its class and colour as yet. 



His Majesty, H.T.. is a strong-growing Rose. 

 I am using it as a pillar Rose, but I am afraid 

 it is something of a disappointment. It is not 

 a bad colour (crimson carmine) or shape, but the 

 flowers are rather thin, and not altogether satis- 

 factory, w T hile the plant is somewhat subject to 

 mildew ; some of my friends say very subject 

 to that disease. 



Jessie, Poly. Pom., is a charming little Rose. 



It is very dwarf, so is useful on the rockery or 



for edging. The flow r ers are double and very 



freely and continuously produced : when first 



opened they are bright crimson, and they fade 



to a rosy crimson. It is the best Rose of its class 



and colour as yet, and makes a good very dwarf 



bedding plant. Its weakness, which it shares 



with many other red Roses, is the dull tint of 



the fading flowers, so when it is grown in a 



bed frequent removal of the fading flowers should 



be practised if the bed is to be kept bright and 

 cheerful. 



Jonkheer J. L. Mock, H.T., is a bicolor 

 variety, the outside of the petals being carmine, 

 the inside a rose-pink colour. It is a well-set-up 

 flower, rather on the lines of Farben-Konigin, 

 squarely built on strong, erect stems, and should 

 make a useful exhibition Rose. Perhaps it is by 

 reason of its name that I think there is some- 

 thing rather Dutch and solid in its appearance, 

 and that for garden purposes it should be treated 

 on rather formal lines. 



Juliet, Austrian Hyb., is another bicolor Rose, 

 the combination of colour being old gold on the 

 outside of the petals and the inside a rosy red. 

 The contrast of colour is novel and startling, 

 and the flower is delightfully fragrant. The 

 plant is a very strong grower, with good, strong 

 foliage, and seems well adapted for making a 

 hedge or a large bush in the open shrubbery, 

 where it will grow up to 6 feet high. 



Lady Alice Stanley, H.T.— Again a bi- 

 color, the outside of the petals being rosy-pink, 

 the inside silvery-blush, and the general impres- 

 sion given by the flower being a pale-pink Rose 

 with a deep pink centre. Great hopes were en- 

 tertained of this Rose when it first appeared as 

 one likely to give us a first-class exhibition Rose, 

 but so far they have hardly been fulfilled. The 

 Rose has not yet found a footing in Mr. Maw- 

 ley's analysis of exhibition Roses, and the flowers 

 are apt to come rather rough and ragged. It is, 

 however, a well-shaped flower, easily grown, 

 with plenty of substance, and it may be the 

 Rose has not yet found its year. It is certainly 

 one of the most fragrant of Roses, and is worth 

 growing for its perfume. 



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Margaret, H.T., is described as soft apricot 

 rose, but hardly with accuracy ; at least, this de- 

 scription does not quite recall the colour as I 

 have seen it, which I should prefer to call a 

 delicate pink with just a little yellow at the 

 base of the petals. The flowers are of food 

 form and substance, with stiff petals, and the 

 couple of plants in my garden seem stron 

 good growers. 



Margaret Molyneux, H.T. — I only know 

 from its appearance at the shows it is a pretty 

 semi-double saffron yellow flower. 



Marquise de Ganay, H.T., is a good, if not 

 very distinct Rose, silvery pink, of fair size and 

 fragrant, and the plant is a strong grower. 



Muriel Jamison, H.T., is a single-flowered 

 Rose, cadmium orange in colour. It is said not 

 to be a very strong grower, but I have not tried 

 it in my garden. 



Rosa Moyesii is a species which makes a beau- 

 tiful and distinct shrub for the garden. The 

 foliage is a good dark green, and the closely-set 

 leaflets give the shrub an Acacia-like appear- 

 ance, which is quite decorative even when the 

 plant is not in flower. The blossoms are produced 

 about the first week in June, and are a wonder- 

 ful colour, brownish crimson the Catalogue de- 

 scribes them, but I think they are rather a deep 

 strawberry and chamois. The special point about 

 the blossom is the thick cluster of very numerous 

 anthers in the middle of the flower. The only 

 fault this beautiful Rose has is that the flower- 

 ing season is all too short, but, like Altaica. it 

 makes an occasional flower in autumn. The plant 

 in my garden has made a thick, graceful bush 

 about 5 feet high, and as much, or rather more, 

 in diameter. 



Mrs. Arthur Munt, H.T., is a very pretty 

 Rose of neat habit, the flowers cream, with a 

 pale peach tint in the centre, not altogether un- 

 like the flowers of Mrs. Foley Hobbs shown as 

 grown under glass. 



Mrs. Hubert Taylor, T., is generally sup- 

 posed to be either a sport or seedling from Mme. 

 Cusin, but the growth is longer and more 

 vigorous, and the flowers are a pale-rose colour. 



Mrs. Wakefield Christie Miller, H.T.— 

 This flower is another bicolor Rose, the outside 

 of the petals deep-rose colour, and the inside a 

 soft blush. It has the property of retaining its 

 colour into late autumn, and the brilliant pink 

 quite lights up the garden on a dull day in 

 November. Though fine exhibition flowers of 

 this variety have been shown, it is far too thin 



d fleeting to be likely to be of much use for 



this purpose, but its bright colour will make it a 

 useful garden Rose : probably it will look its best 

 in a dull season, when the blossoms can open 

 slowly. The plant is of rather upright and 

 sturdy growth. 



Orleans Rose, Poly. Pom., is a bushy little 

 plant with a very large truss of flower. It is 

 rather taller than Mrs. Cutbush and a good deal 

 deeper in colour, almost a rosy red. It 1S 

 bright and pretty when the flowers first open, 

 but the colour goes rather dull as they fade. 

 Though a useful Rose, I think the colour is not 

 equal to Mrs. W. H. Cutbush. 



Senateur Mascuraud, H.T., ought to make 

 a useful garden Rose of the Prince de Bulgane 

 type. The flowers are creamy-white shaded yel- 

 low, often with a deep-orange centre. 



Simplicity, H.T., is a large-flowered, white, 

 single Rose, very pretty when the yellow stamen* 

 are fresh. It grows about the height of Phari- 

 saer, and several of the large single flowers are 

 carried at the top of each stalk. It is rather a 

 difficult Rose to show really well, because the 

 flowers open successively, and the anthers of 

 older flowers get brown before the later one 

 open. It is best to pick it just as the first 

 flowers are ready to open and to allow flowers 







ring, 



to come out indoors. It is quite worth grow 

 hardy and vigorous. 



Soleil d' Angers, Austrian Hyb., is said to be 

 a sport from Soleil d'Or. The colour scheme ox 



