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THE GARDENERS' MAGAzilNE, 



ROSE MADAME JULES 



GRAVEREAUX. 



This fuie rose was introduce<l by M<^srs. 

 Soupert et Netting olovon years ago, and 

 has remained a great favourite from the 

 first. It is classed as a tea-scented variety, 

 although it is not a pure tea rose, being 

 the result of crossing the noisette Ilevc 

 d'Or with the hvbrid tea Viscountess Folke- 

 stone^ which the late Mr. flenry IJennett 

 a pioneer among ro^^e hybridists 

 in Jubilee year. 



gave us 



pling disease upon lose foliage, it does not 

 possess quite such long and rambling 

 growths as the strongest of its parentis — 

 Keve iVOr—and is all the more suited for 



pillars btH*ause of this characteristic, com- 

 bined with the excessively free-blooming 

 qualities of Viscountess Folkestone. 



It is also a capital rose on the back wall 

 of a conservatory, but must not have a too 

 moist atmosphere because of its great 

 doubloness, any check to opening causing 

 decay. Most of us recognise the fruity 

 sweetness of perfume foinid in Viscountess 

 Folkestone, and all of this is fortunatelv 



HARDY PLANT CHAT. 



Dicta, mnuses. 



The fraxinellas are such distinct-lookin^' 

 liardy flowers that they should never be 

 forgotten by those Avlio wish to possess th^ 

 best border flow^ers of Juno and July. Yet 

 there are many gardens which are the 

 ipoorer because of their absence. They are 

 said to be good dry-weather plants, but 

 this must be accepted with the proverbial 



of salt, as some experiments with 



and 



In colour, fii/<' nwd habit of growth, retained in the rose under notice. The 



grain 



plants in dry and moderately dry soils 

 proved to the writer. These dictamnuses 

 form long tap roots, it is true, but if the 



HOSE MADAME JULES URAVEREAUX. 

 A frec-flowering, sweetly-scented variety, flesh-coloured, with yellow shading. 



Madame Jules Gravereaux is just what one 

 might rea so n a bly 1 oo k for f rom such 

 parentage. It is a splendid climber for 

 almost any position, and makes grand heads 

 in standard form. In addition to its great 

 usefulness in the garden (it being almost 

 impossible to use it to wrong purpose), it 

 has figured very prominently in the win- 

 ning stands at rose exhibitions, gaining the 

 silver medal as the best flower of any tea 

 or hybrid tea variety upon many occa- 

 sions. 



Of exceptionally strong and robust 

 growth, it flowers more continuously than 

 most of our vigorous roses. Carrying Ijand- 

 soiiio lulijiuM^ that is freer than usual from 

 mildew — a most disfiguring as well as crip- 



flowers illustrated represent some recently 

 exhibited in fine form by Messrs. Frank 



(*ant and Co., Braiswick Nurseries, Col- 

 chester. ' 



Lilium Warleyense.— As shown at 



Holland Park, and illustrated in the Gar- 

 DENEES' Magazine of July 6, this is indeed 

 a superb lily, but still I question if it can 

 be regarded as other than a form of Lilium 

 sutchuenense, a Chinese species with which 

 we have within the last ten years or so be- 

 come fairly familiar. True, I have never 

 before met with examples of L. sutchuenense 

 the equal of those shown as L. Warleyense, 

 but unusually developed bulbs may account 

 for this. — W. 



isubsoil is a poor and sandy or gravelly one 

 this is no great advantage, -as they fii>^ 

 their way down into a stratum where there 

 is little to support the plants. The 

 are those ^w^hicli have a<-cess to some good 

 rich soil beneath, and it is advisable to 

 give them as good a chance as possible 

 de 

 pat 



pled by 



those which were proper ly attended to 

 .showed their gratitude for liberal treat- 

 jnent. 



There is^ bowever, a considerable div^r 

 .sity amoni^ the individual plants, many ^ 

 which hav(^ b(<'n raised from iseetls, a" 

 show a good ileal of divrrsity in statur 



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