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THE GARDENERS 9 CHRONICLE. 



[June 15, 1012. 



it is in a sense unfortunate, for not only does it 

 deprive us of the mass of colour to delight the eye, 

 but severe pruning causes usually a very rapid 

 growth, and this in turn seems to lessen the 

 duration of the period of high colouring in the 

 young foliage. 



One of the earliest spots in the Rose garden 

 to attract attention is generally the bed of Rich- 

 mond. Beautiful and perfect is the early flower, 

 delicious the fragrance and bright and continuous 

 through the long summer come the blossoms of 

 this Rose, but even when the flowers are at their 

 best, I am not sure that the general effect of th 

 bed is more perfect than it is when the last year's 

 stems push out their coral pink leaves in the early 

 spring. They have a softness of colouring and 

 a charm of freshness that are most attractive 

 and characteristic. Perhaps one of the very few 



theless influences the colouring of the mass of 

 foliage ; it introduces a distinct and well-marked 

 shade of blue which, while the pink and reds of 

 the young growths are still strong, produces a 

 very noticeable effect. 



The claret-reds of the young growths of the 

 Tea Roses are also very attractive in the spring 

 garden, and few give more pleasing effects than 



the 



young foliage was both noticeable and 

 pleasing. While that of Mme. Jules Grolez was 

 quite free from admixture of greens, browns or 

 yellows, in Prince de Bulgarie all these shades 

 were noticeable, the slight tint of brow ny -red 

 and chrome-yellow really confined to the tips of 

 the leaves and shoots gave 



that excellent 



Rose, Auguste Comte, but 

 Mme. Jean Dupuy, Souvenir de Pierre Notting, 

 and Mme. Antoine Mari all 



superimposed on the green 

 leaves. Somewhat similar 



the effect of being 

 body colour of 



foliage 



in which this 



e 



produce young 

 colour predominates. 

 Attractive, too, is the healthy, large and vigor- 

 ous young growth on Mme. Jules Gravereaux, 

 E. Veyrat Hermanos, and the H.T. J. B. Clark, 

 in which we find various shades of claret-red and 

 brown associated with green as the ground colour 

 of the leaves. 



found in the foliage of Irish 



the 

 colouring is to be 

 Elegance. 



Another Rose in the young foliage of which the 

 browny-red predominates is Gruss an Teplitz. 

 The colouring of this foliage is very soft and 

 effective, and persists on the growing shoots well 

 into the summer. It is often useful for arrang- 

 ing with cut Roses in bowls and vases, and is 

 highly decorative. Gruss an Teplitz leads one 

 naturally to the Chinas. Here, again, we often 



Fig. i 86.— view of Messrs. j. cheal and sons' tudor garden at the international show. 



Roses, other than Richmond, to show this coral- 

 pink colour in the young foliage is Mrs. Theodore 

 Roosevelt. 



Another very charming effect, which lasts in 

 beauty for a long time, is produced by a hedge 

 of Zephirine Drouhin. Here the pruning has been 

 confined to a thinning out of the weakly sprays, 

 and the long rods have been preserved nearly 

 their full length, tying them obliquely to 

 bamboo stakes, so as to allow fresh shoots to 

 break from the base. The colour of the foliage 



for it consists of 



is difficult to describe, 

 various shades of pink and red overlying the 

 green ground colouring of the leaves. This green 

 gradually increases in intensity as the season 

 advances, finally dominating the whole. But in 

 spring the leaves are also overlaid with a faint 

 and scarcely perceptible " blooxi," which never- 



(See p. xxiv. of Exhibition Supplement in the issue for June 1.) 



Coming back to the Hybrid Tea Roses, the 

 young foliage of Killarney is a very soft and 

 delicate tint of vinous red, while that of Mme. 

 Jules Grolez is perhaps as distinct as any. It 

 is a striking shade of claret- crimson, almost 

 approaching the tint known as French purple, 

 and very handsome. The colour I refer to as 

 French purple has, of course, no resemblance to 

 that we generally call purple in England, which 

 has a large proportion of blue in it, but is pos- 

 sibly very near to the imperial purple of the 

 Roman Emperors, though in the Rose foliage it 

 is not so brilliant as the latter. 



I was much struck this year by a group of 

 Mme. Jules Grolez growing at the top of a 

 bank, the lower slope of which was occupied by 



find striking tints in the young foliage, and in 

 none is the red colouring higher or more effec- 

 tive than in Queen Mab. Next to this, and 

 nearly as good, is Mme. Eugene Resal, while the 

 colours of Fabvier and Cramoisie Superieure are 

 also pretty and distinctive. In the common 

 China, on the contrary, it is a bright fresh green 

 with little high colour which attracts the eye, as 

 is also the case with Charlotte Klemm. 



Very much the same state of things obtains in 

 the Polyantha Pompons. In some such, as 

 chen Muller and Mrs. W. H. Cutbush, we 



Prince de Bulgarie. 



find the young foliage of a bright fresh green, 

 while in Roses like Perle d'Or, Cecile Brunner, 

 and some of Lambert's recent introductions, such 

 as Tip Top, we get the red tints, but these latter 



as in the case of the 



The contrast of colour in China Roses. White Hose. 



