582 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
(May II, 1895, 
THE ROSARY, 
THE EFFECT OF THE PAST WINTER 
UPON ROSES, 
(Concluded from p. 552.) 
passing away a the south and weat 
of England, there are yet two more records which 
are, I think from Ar, . 
ton. My losses 
han ever oy N I think I 
ut some of my old ones 
I 2 I have lost from eighty to 
a hundred standar 
f Cleopatra I have lost one out of 
Madame de Watteville has suffered to 
Madame Elie Lambert seems 
without loss, 
sixty trees, 
25 per cent. 
quite hardy, and has 
my loss. Maréchal Niel, one out of forty sta 
gone, They are all in a bed in the open, I . about 
800 standards, so that 10 per cent. will be near my 
total loss. The . 4 in the 9 
screen was 6°; g Those trees 
exposed to the north have alent the worst,” From 
Messrs, Jefferies & Sons, whose nurseries are situated 
on the dairy the following sad story reaches 
me: — Our soil,” he says, 
west temperature was 
zero Fahr., and the Roses were a protected ; of the 
ce’ e killed, and the 
u Pa wa 5 Veh cent. 
killed to snow-level ; of Teas and Noise 
practically i 
to 
75 per cent. are killed in standards, 
in dwarfs; while Briars and Manetti s stocks suffered 
considerably.” 
assing away now to the districts north of the 
are on all kinds of soil, from gravel to s 
are very much injured, ly 
Vernet and other darks, bu warfs are unin- 
jured; where the dard Teas were powers they 
were not much hurt, but of the dwarfs, man 
killed,” 
well-kno own amateur of Colchester, 
says, The character of my soil is light loam, situa- 
tion S.W., high and dry, 130 feet above 
oe buds of 
the pre | Tene 
bracken put on the I have no dard 
3 , the dwarfs were nearly killed to the snow-line, 
some were killed ou ; the dwarf Teas were 
3 hurt, but I cannot find an inch of sound 
wood on the standards I have tried - but I hope some 
of them may break again from near the union, 
to dormant „the dwarfs which had a little 
buds, 
thrown over them appear to be absolutely 
safe ; the standards, both H. P.’s and Teas, look very 
sadly, but I think they will come right. The 
v. A. F. writes 
"The majority of dwar H, Bs P. s are e 
very good and strong, and put out for budding in 
cutting stocks; which were 
November and December, are killed. I have not 
uncovered all my plants (of course this was written 
some weeks ago), but I fear my losses are very 
serious, but it is too early yet to estimate the damage 
thoroughly,” 
From Cambridgeshire, Mr. Burrell writes, My 
soil is heey yellow loam ; the lowest reading of ther- 
te e H. ndards and shi 
h damaged in many varieties, but there 
quite enough sound wood at the base, and they are 
now pushing up buds, while some varieties are not 
damaged at all. Plants of Teas, both standards and 
dwarfs, protected with clippings of Arbor-vitz, passed 
through safely ; climbing Teas and Noisettes, unpro- 
tected, are mostly killed to snow line. buds 
look all safe and sound, and I think no losses from 
frost either of P.'s. o buds lost on dwarf 
stocks protected, buds on standards very small per- 
centage of loss. Hybrid perpetuals on standards have 
stood well without protection. Practically, no losses 
worth mentioning. The plants facing north are very 
little damaged compared with those fully exposed to 
2 which was brilliant.“ 
h has done 
writes great 
damage; the hybrid Teas seem among the worst.“ 
From West Herts, Mr. Mawley writes, There is not 
a bit of sound wood in my Rose garden above the 
snow-level, but as yet I have not come across a single 
H.P. whi 
from the North of England, but from “bonn 
Dundee” mere. Croll send the following Pees 
cation: soil is loamy, inclined to clayey 
loam ; our lowest temperature below zero, and 
that for three nights in succession. Standard H.P.’s 
were nearly all killed; dwarf H.P.’s cut to the 
ground in most cases, but ahr of wood left to start 
om. Teas and Noisettes, standards and dwarfs, 
nearly all killed. We received from the South a lot 
of very fine standard Teas, which we protected with 
straw, the only time we protected any Roses for 
twenty years, and we will never do it again, the 
protected ones being the worst. Early-budded 
eas are all right; we would say no worse than usual, 
fros 
wrought sad havoc her nately, we could not 
get much planting — otherwise o our Rose atocks 
would all have been killed; as 
about 30, Manetti and Briar cuttings, ll 
our standard Roses have been killed, and, I fear, 
most of our standard buds; on the other hand, 
we have a splendid crop of dwarf buds. Again, 
our dwarf plants have We killed back to 
deen a few inches of the gr 7 je 
in the 
ch done, 
Sack tk en, are the testim monies of grow 
amateur and profess’ 
investment for any Rose-grower. I know that 
exhibitors of Teas say that they can get no such 
blooms as from t 
f protecti e evi- 
xing, but I think the 
somewhat perple: 
differences of opinion may be somewhat due to the 
— 1 think 
P.'s, it has been greatly ieee by that done to 
e 0 
Roses must be increased in price; it is not like 
partial collapse of an industry, or the failure in 3 
certain district, but it is well-nigh universal. 
Rose- growing districts of France have also 
t Rose growers 
be able to supply their N on the same terms 
as 5 e. 
8, of course, premature to say anything as 
nh Pci ects of Rose exhibiting, but one thing, I 
r is clear, that it will be a difficult time ſor the 
l am 
ast yea of this month, 
May, e indeed will bi: shell condition—bat 
at present we must wait. Wild Rose 
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS, 
It e years since Roses have suffered to 
n like the same extent as from the zero froste 
of this February, 1895, The paucity of sunshine in 
the previous autumn, as well as the moii 
mildness of the weather until February, proved, as 
these conditions always ay = worst possible prepa- 
ration = such hard fre 
n not a few cases in p districts, rather 
widely Dax the bush wood of Roses and many other 
shrubs appeared, after their fight with zero tempera- 
had all th having 
passed through 
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fo 
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= 
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8 
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of thin and watery sap from within, Be that as it 
may, the actual results may almost be described as 
appalling, were it not for the — that hope springt 
immortal in the rosarian's breas 
Before, ae noting the or poor state of 
20 many of our favourite Roses, let me cite a few 
cases that ane recently come under my notice, of 
the soundness of these views. 
In most cases in which re! planting was per 
e frost better than 
the case, that a formula might be tabulated; — 
the less and the thicker the — in er pete 
—— the more hardy, and vice 
rsd. 
e greater safety of Roses in “thé north — om 
ee hence help to 27 or mature 
he season, it does 20, this earlier "ai 
higher sr ripeness i is — for the Roses than £ 
artificial n. „ 
Colder sites also double or many times oui eee 
the fall of snow. Now, most of our a ye are 
under a 41 covering. Lig do 
not cold, But anything under it can hardly sink 
