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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[April 13, 1912. 



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Letters for Publication, as well as specimens of plants 

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Communications should be written on onk side only of 

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 the Editors early intelligence of local events likely to be of 

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

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Newspapers. — Correspondents sending newspapers should be 

 careful to mark the paragraphs they wish the Editors to see. 



Dean Hole published during his lifetime part merely details of management of 



several books, all more or less of the secondary importance. The general prin- 



nature of personal recollections. There ciples of Rose-growing, as of gardening, 



was A Book about the Garden and the have changed [_ little, J"^'^™* 

 Gardener, Memories, another on Our 

 Gardens, and A Little Tour in Ire- 

 land, but chiefly and above all A Booh 

 about Roses. The Rose book almost im- 

 mediately became something like a classic. 



Edition after edition was brought out dur- new edition of this delightful book, and 



fng the author's lifetime, so that in the we may applaud his wisdom in giving us 



preface to one of the later editions he was the book entire, so far as we have seen, 



preid.ee uu ^ thankful to m precisely the form the author left it. 



able to write in 1901: 1 am tnanKiui tu r ^ * 



know in my old age that I have been privi- We cannot but feel that any a era hon of 



feged to promote that love of a garden the text must have endangered that feeling 



,.. which never fails to make our lives more of personal converse with the Dean we ex- 



- ha h p P y." We have here alike the secret of St^t wS ,^ !f 



likely to do so, and his book is still of 

 value as one of the best guides to the 

 amateur rosarian. 



We may therefore be grateful to Dr. 

 A. H. Williams for presenting us with a 



- Pno TUC ruciiiMfi UlCCIf his success and the idea that inspired all 



APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. he wrote He cared nothing for the 



orderly arrangement of the genus or for 



RoTalHort.'SocTmect and Daffodil Sh. (2 days). (Lee- any gtudy of the scientific classification of 

 lura by Prof. Henslow on •• Darwin as Ecologist. ) 



TUESDAY, APRIL 16 



Royal 

 Royal 



Shrewsbury Spring Fl. Sh. 



WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17— m „ t 



Royal Hort. Soc. Exam, of School Teachers. 

 Hort. Soc. of Ireland Spring Sh. (2 days). 

 Meteorological Soc. meet. 



THURSDAY, APRIL 18— 



Ipswich Daffodil and Spring Fl. Sh. Linnean Soc. 

 meet. Manchester Orchid Sdc. meet. Devon Daf- 

 fodil and Spring Fl. Sh. (2 days). 



the Rose. 



would be fatal. Dr. Williams 

 ever, added a chapter on " Progress " and 

 an Appendix giving us lists and selec 

 tions of modern Roses. The chapter on 

 Progress is concise, and sufficiently and 



But the love of his subject is paramount, clearly sets forth the matters of detail 



*.• . *x a a Tirhinli nprVians. trip. Dean might now. 



and he never wearies of repeating it. 

 poor man who loves the flower may 

 walk about in March with a Rose in 

 his coat, while Dives, who only likes, may 



A which, perhaps, the Dean might now, 

 had he lived, have wished to incorporate 



in his book. 

 We are n 



Average Mean Temperature for the ensuing week 

 deduced from observations during the last Fifty Years 

 at Greenwich— 47°5. 



Actual Temperatures:— 



London.— Wednesday, April 10 (6 p.m.): Max. 51°; 



Min. 41^. 

 Car tenets' Chronicle Office, 41, Wellington Street, 



Covent Garden, London —Thursday, April 11 

 (10 a.m.) : Bar. 298° ; Temp. 51° ; Weather- 

 Sunshine. 

 Province . — I! '« Inesday, April 10: Max. 50° Cornwall ; 



Min. 40° York. 



SALES FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 



WEDNESDAY- mM . 4U „ , 



Herbaceous and Border Plants, Lilies and other Hardy 

 Bulbs at 12; Roses at 1.80; Palms and Plants at 6; 

 Trade Sale of Japanese Lilies and Miscellaneous Bulbs 

 at 1 ; at 67 & 68, Cheap- iie, E.C., by Protheroe & Morris. 



FRIDW— 



Choice Imported and Established Orchids, at 67 & 68, 



Cheapside, E.C., by Protheroe & Morris, at 12.45. 



be Roseless under all his vitreous domes," the faith in the powers of modern washes 

 and he would quote " Old Izaak " : " Have and sprays that Dr. Williams seems to feel, 

 but a love of it, and HI warrant you." ^ but they are undoubtedly of great service 

 But the intense love of the beautiful in when used carefully and systematically, 

 flower or garden, essential as he conceived and he tells us of all that it is necessary to 

 it to success in the cultivation of his know on this subject. - 

 favourite flower, was by no means to stop rp^e lists of Roses in the Appendix have 

 there, or to be followed merely for the been prepared carefully and well. Those re- 

 purpose of an esoteric delight ; it had to i at i ng to the Multiflora Roses and Wichu- 

 him a wider mission, and from a very dif- ra i anas are particularly worth considera- 



Wil 



Williams 



A 



Book 

 About 



, (TT , . ., w _ ii v . * national well-being. 

 " How charming it would be to ir^_*w.«-K«. 



have an hour's table talk with 



liam Morris a profound conviction of the q£ t ' hege ' cIasses? and perhaps we have no 

 importance of its humanising and civilising amateur wr iter who could deal with them 



influence in raising the thoughts and ^^ „^ Tr .^ n r -± 



ennobling the ideals of all classes ^ J^i7i^ 

 of the community and so powerfully 



contributing to the growth of the and rambling Multifloras. From the gar- 

 dener's point of view, this will, no doubt, 

 be extremely convenient, but we trust that 

 if it be adopted, a more simple and eupho- 

 nious attribute than " semi-scandens 



with greater knowledge. He has proposed a 

 new division of the Multifloras into Multi- 

 flora semi-scandens (perpetual-flowering) 



Notwithstanding the deep purpose 

 underlying all he wrote, there is nothing 



some of our old rosarians. I xV • rw*«« TTnio'e lifl-la hnnk 



... ., -of the sermon in Dean Moles little dook. 



nm with t.npm ...1U ._..-. ,. i •__ _ 



• » 



a 



teL during iheir »J "*r%?JS2£L£LZ2Ti may be discovered to define the ftrst divi- 



spirit many 

 memories, and always regarding them 

 with a thankful, filial love. I like 

 to think of them among their Roses 



comment. The author is constantly led off 

 into all sorts of unexpected digressions, 

 and the book contains not a dull page from 



-- , ■ At i 1,™ cover to cover. With all this Dean Hole 



as I wander among my own, mindful how ^ ^ ^ . g even ^ important 



much of my happiness I owe, humanly ^J admirable treatise on how to grow 



speaking, to their skill and enterprise, re- ^ Roge Iq gome re _ supplementary illust^.^ 



Z^tSZ^ZEZtt *■** " ** *« culture ha, pro- A^^}*~ -* &** 



sion. The last few sheets seem to have 

 been somewhat carelessly revised before 

 going to press, for there are numerous 

 mistakes of spelling which might have been 

 avoided. 



Our Supplementary Illustration. 



. _ a 1 l~* _ _ kb i*» «~J 



would fain be remembered hereafter." 

 wrote Dean Hole many years before 

 he became a dean, in his Book about Hoses, 



gressed since he wrote. There has come the Gardeners' Chronicle for May 1, 1909. 



il • e J.1- - J „t:..„ X>^nr, nn n n -n ■ 1 : ™.«,.Tin(T \V 



the rise of the decorative Rose as an 

 exhibition flower, the greater wealth of 



and many of us would doubtless echo his - fa ^ autumQ gardengj an enor . 



sentiment. But few are the rosarians of ^^ number of new varieties of Roses> 



the past who have left to their sons and ^ q{ ^.^ ^ digplaced those he 



daughters of to-day such cheerful and de- loyed fcabliahed favourites . We have 



hghtfui;'tableJ^»ascanbefoundm an .^^ ^ the number 



the writings of the great Dean, in the read- * the insectg and digeases and flowers am, ng from tire centre. 



inff and re-reading whereof we may m , . . ,, , , , -, .. u rt rest estimates that some of the root sluc r 



mg and rereading ^nereoi w which k QUr lantS) d lfc b e for 1W The pUnt grows on the 



we have discovered improved methods of face of dicular cliffs , a nd is swayed oy 



ing and re-reading whereof we may in 

 truth seem to be in converse with an old 

 rosarian. to sit with him 



We 



Lilts iTtit ue/ie/c> f/t/v/notc iui ^»^«'j -7 -- , 



now illustrate an aged specimen growing wild in 

 Yunnan, China, which shows the remarkable 

 development of the root-stock, characteristic o 

 the species. The persistent caudex is covered tor 

 two-thirds of its length with the induvi» o 

 older foliage, and, at the apex, these orm 

 a dense, matted mass, with the fresh foM^ 

 and flowers arising from the centre- Mr. * 



counteracting their evil influence. 



the wind, causing the rock, in some^istai^ 

 to become scored to a depth of fully 1 inch. ^ 

 flowers are yellow, and the young folia J lde ' n 

 covered on the under surface with a g 



Inends in his garden house or potting- have improved the mecha nical devices for 



shed, and stroll with him m imagination tecting and disp l ay i ng the flowers. 



as, armed with a cigar lest he should meet p erhaps some may think we have in coveTea on tne unaer 6 ui— - -.* 



an aphis, he^ wandered round his Roses of some regpects improve d on his methods farina. The species received a First-class Oert ^ 



of cultivation. But these are small mat- cate when exhibited by Messrs. Bees ^^ 



ters, and, however much they may be a meeting of the Royal Horticultura 



prized by the expert, are for the most held on April 20, 1909. 



a summer evening. 



* A Book abnut Roses, by S- Reynolds Hole. New edition 

 with an additional chapter and lists of Roses, by Dr. A. H 

 Williams, 



