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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Max 21, 1887. 
happens, and he would be a reckless writer who 
would assign limits to the fostering character of 
une weather. e Roses are clean as yet— 
exceptionally so—neither blight, mildew, fly, 
put in an appearance in the 
more prevalent indoors than usual—especially the 
former. Teas in the open are abnormally close 
to the ground, and, as well as late Teas on the walls, 
exceptionally strong and making rapid progress 
—Maréchal Niel, Safrano, and Gloire de Dijon, 
taking the lead, and the others following in due 
course, Sosoon as the wind changes for good, and 
a little more warm rain falls, there will be a 
accidents, one of the tout brilliant harvests of 
late years will be gathered in. 
COMPARATIVE HARDINESS OF TEA AND 
HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES. 
In those times, before pia got mixed 
{ditor knows 
positive on this one point at least—that Tea Roses 
were tender, and hybrid perpetuals were hardy. 
Nor did they rest in faith ; they acted on it, and 
every autumn any Tea or China Rose left in the 
open for the winter was duly protected by one, 
several, coverings, while the per- 
petuals were left to shift for themselves— 
and a very good and safe shift they mostly 
made of it. But tender and all sorts of 
mixed bloods have been poured into our 
Roses, with the result that their sap has become 
а sort of world-wide stirabout of all the climates 
ot. Were proof beyond quibble or question, 
ed of this, it may be found in the question 
e difficul 
blooded species, but one mixed and crossed almost 
to infinity; and many, perhaps most, of these 
crosses have been used for the sake of form, size, 
and colour. 
It may probably be said, with equal truth and 
safety, that not one of them has 
perhaps less necessity for pouring foreign blood 
into Teas, and, what is more to the point, it has 
not been done to anything like the same extent. 
I venture to add, subject to correction, of 
_course, that probably the Tea Rose is the least, 
while the hybrid perpetual is the most, mixed of 
all our classes or sub-species of 
also approach more closely to a uniform standard 
-of hardi than the hybrid perpetuals. It eod 
likewise be doubted whether the hardiness 
Teas has sensibly varied within 
modern 
The Teas 
t—Which are the hardiest, the Teas or ' 
the experience of 
reset while that of gc eden 
gotten in new varieties from the strain to which 
they are subjected to enforce their rapid increase į 
and allowing time for them to settle down into 
their normal hardiness, it must be allowed that 
most modern perpetuals are less hardy than the 
older ones, and to not a few of the Teas 
Choosing one old and popular Tea, the Gloire 
de Dijon, and ranging round it such varieties as 
the following, most, if not all such, would be 
severely injured or wholly destroyed by the 
frost, while the Glory would be left solely un- 
injured :—Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, Lady Suffield, 
of the Baroness Rothschi 
Merveille е У-ди, Mabel Morrison, and the 
White Bar 
And oe ‘the “Teas are most unfairly handi- 
capped with far later growth than the so-called 
perpetuals in such contests against climate ; for 
while the perpetuals are mostly so in name only, 
and are dormant in the autumn, the Teas are 
perpetual growers and bloomers in fact, and 
run their latest buds and blooms right into the 
frosts and snows of winter. Caught by the cold 
in this state, they are heavily hit in their most 
vulnerable condition, hence it is little marvel if 
Teas are often cut down to the ground-line, 
while perpetuals appear to be little injured. 
Things, however, are often different to what 
they seem in these Rose freezings. The wood 
and bark of perpetuals often appear but little 
injured, while the pith is frost-stained to a much 
lower depth, and ultimately it will be found that 
the shoots will die back to the line of injury to 
the pith. Hence, in assessing the particular 
hardiness of different species and varieties of 
Roses we must be less guided by the mere 
condition of the tops, and more by the freshness 
of the base-buds and soundness of the collars of 
the plants. Judged by such practical tests, it 
will be admitted that the Teas will often secure 
the prize for hardiness over many of the per- 
uals in a canter. Rosa. 
PLANTS NEW OR NOTEWORTHY, 
URSINIA PULCHRA, N. E. Br. (SPHENOGYNE 
SPECIOSA, Knowles and Westcott) .* 
Tuts charming annual is an old and well known 
plant to gardeners, although, strange to say, it is 
almost unknown to botanists, for besides the authors 
quoted below I cannot discover that any botanist 
has taken any note of the plant, and it is not men- 
СЕЗЕ pierdes E here diee Cabinet, 
Paxton' des vetu. M, 
er of 
apensis : — 8. ab 
Br. 8 crithmifolin, 
ss. ` pifolia, N. E. 
R. Br., and vars. grandiflora, Harv., and trifurcata, DC. — 
grandiflora and tira 
tioned in Harvey and Sonder's Flora Capensis. This E 
may perhaps be attributed to the fact that I am un- - 
introduced from South America, and by others fom | 3 
South Africa, which latter, as above indi is 
doubtless its true h Specifically it is nearly 
allied to Ursinia anthemoides, but differs in having 
larger flower-heads, the ray florets yellow on both 
brown margins, instead of d 
purple- -brown s spot at 
em 
e base, and the disc bn clo 
Since Sphenogyne cannot be ned as 
tinct genus apart from Ursinia, this [шат ‘plant 
a c na 
as there is already another and equally beautiful 
species bearing the name of ia speciosa, so 
ave ch d the name as Th 
numerous other species of Ursinia, most of which are 
well worth introducing, and several of them ex- 
метей beautiful. N. E. Brown, Herbarium, Кеш, 
TILLANDSIA venti; Cham. et Schlecht., in “ Linnea,” E 
; Mart. et Galeotti, * ` Emm. ; 1i, 81g 
E Бситкожќик: Stendel, “ Nomen.,” edit. 2; та 1 
FLAVESCENS, Mart. et Galeotti, loc. cit. 
This has been imported by Messrs. Shuttleworth 
and has just flowered at Kew. It is a native of the 
mountainous regions of Central Mexico. “Tt belongs 
to the sub-genus VR user өн and is past to T. 
pruinosa, Sw.; T a, Hook.; and T. 
Sw. (Refug. Bot., ‘ong 
Basal leaves pue out on а short 
oblong-lanceolate, imbricated, bright 
Calyx shorter than the bract. наб 
а cylindrical s ht yellow tube protrude e 
fron the brac гараа " ens and style exserted. J. LG. 
Baker. $ 
ORCHID NOTES AND ET 
POGONIA а 
Ix the Orchid collection at Kew this interestin| 
and pretty species is now i flower. In colour he 
tals and sepals ( similar in ow 
linear-pointed) are yellowish, and the lip white 
DC. = U. macropoda, N. Е. Br. 8. — Sch. yer 
niei N. E. Br. 
` tenuifolia, Poir., and var. "pa 
denta Me = U. tridentata, N. 
a es Е. 18, trifurea, Harv. = U. ша, 
tripartita, N. E. Br. 8 
E. Brown. 
