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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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July, 1911 



The Ultima Thule in Roses 



IT The farthest point yet. Hardy ros;s we have had. Everblooming roses 

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A Hardy Cape Bulb 



IT'S a toss-up whether you buy it as Montbretia, 

 named after M. Montbret, or Tritonia, 

 which refers to the weathercockiness of the stamens 

 and not the god of the "wreathed horn"; but by 

 either appellation here is a charming cape bulb 

 that has been proved to be hardy. It has been 

 found perfectly hardy at Lenox, Mass., and even 

 so far north as Bar Harbor, Me., has withstood 

 the winter when planted eighteen inches deep. 



This much has been gleaned for a certainty out 

 of a mass of conflicting opinion and is quite enough 

 to warrant considerable experimentation with a 

 bulb, or rather corm, that may be had in named 

 varieties so low as thirty and forty cents a dozen. 

 The Tritonia — that is its accepted name now, 

 according to Bailey — wants rich, but light and 

 deep soil, good drainage and plenty of sunshine. 

 Plant three to six inches apart in clumps. It 

 will thrive in poor, clayey soil if not too wet; if 

 the soil is badly drained raise the height of the bed. 

 Despite the evidence offered, however, this is 

 not saying that tritonias are hardy everywhere 

 south of Bar Harbor; they may or may not be, 

 according to circumstances. The great point is 

 that they are cheap enough to warrant the test 

 of hardiness in any garden, so that each lover of 

 flowers may be his own court of last resort. That 

 is to say, the cheap ones are cheap enough; some of 

 the new large-flowered hybrids are so costly that 

 a 3 x 6 fit. bed of them that I saw last July repre- 

 sented an expenditure of $6o and the corms 

 had been planted fairly well apart at that. The 

 blossoms were superb in size and yellow tones, 

 but not that much more so than the forty cents 

 a dozen kind. The grower of these says that 

 tritonias — or montbretias, as he calls them — are 

 hardy, but he advises against taking the risk with 

 expensive varieties. He gives them gladiolus 

 treatment. Bailey says the same for the latitude 

 of New York and Massachusetts, but to winter 

 them indoors "in damp (not wet) earth." 



Though Bailey gives preference to this treatment, 

 he adds that tritonias may be planted permanently 

 and protected by mulch in cold weather. Henderson 

 says the type, T. Pottsii, is "perfectly hardy" also; 

 T. crocosmceflora, which is also T. Pottsii crossed 

 with the pollen of the closely allied Crocosmia 

 aurea and is the source of the many beautiful 

 named varieties in cultivation. Two growers call 

 tritonias hardy, but one adds, to give them a 

 heavy covering of leaves or litter. One says 

 "leave undisturbed." In England, in the Cheshire 

 garden of the late C. Wolley-Dod, they were taken 

 up religiously every autumn, potted three to a pot, 

 placed in a sheltered spot, covered with litter, 

 kept well watered until March, and then replanted 

 in the garden. There the annual increase was four- 

 fold. Some English growers maintain that lifting 

 is injurious and Robinson has let them run wild 

 between shrubs to keep the weeds out. 



Half a dozen varieties that made good iast 

 summer are these: 



Prometheus, rich orange. 



Kohinoor, medium orange. 



Macrophylla, light orange. 



Brilliant, vermilion. 



Germania, red orange. 



Excelsior, light orange. 

 Other varieties that can be recommended are: 



Rayon d'Or, yellow. 



Gerbe d'Or, golden yellow. 



Drap d'Or, chrome yellow. 



Etoile de Feu, vermilion. 



Aurea Superba, golden yellow. 



Aurantiaca, orange. 



Speciosa, golden yellow. 



Pyramidalis, apricot. 



Bouquet Parfait, vermilion. 



Soleil Couchant, golden yellow. 



Elegans, bright yellow. 



Meteore, salmon red. 



Eldorado, golden yellow 



Phare, orange scarlet. 



Grandiflora, golden yellow. 

 Both T. Pottsii and T. crocosmaflora are orange, 

 a rather inadequate color description, as are all 

 the others, inasmuch as the shades are extraor- 

 dinarily beautiful and sometimes there is marking, 

 or a centre, of a different tone. 

 New York. H." S.Adams. 



