October 5, 1912. 



THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



751 



flowers is evidenced iby the classes set apart 

 for them being largely in excels of those 

 provided on previous occasions. The quin- 

 quennial show will be held in conjunction 

 with the International Exhibition, which 

 takes place under the auspices of the City of 

 Ghent in the park of tlie Citadel, and the 



ged 



lias been erected 



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are being carried out by a small committee, 

 of which M. Edgar Waste! is the president, 

 and M. Jjucien de Cock is the se<'retary. 

 The schedule will be sent to horticulturists 

 on applications addressed to the Secretary- 

 General; Coupuro 160, Ghent, Belgium. 



ft.H.S. Orchid Conference. -In 



conjunction with the exhibition of autumn- 

 flowering orchids that will he lield by the 

 Roval Horticultural Stx^ietv on Xove'mber 

 0 and (i, there will be a conference on AVed- 

 nesday, November 6, when papei^ on 



matters relating to orchids will be read 

 and discussed. The conference will be 

 held in the lecture room of the Horticul- 

 tural Hall, Vincent Square, with Mr. J. 

 Gurney Fowler in the chair, and will ex- 

 tend from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with an inter- 

 val for luncheon, which will be obtainable 

 at the hall. The following papers have 

 been promised : Some Epiphytical Or- 

 chids,^' by Mr. H. G. Alexander; The 

 Physiology of Fertilisation," by Professor 

 Keeble ; "The Application of Genetics to 

 Orchid Breeding," by Major C. C. Hurst; 

 '^\lbinism in Orchids," by Mr. R. G. 

 Thwaites. As the seating accommodation 

 of the lecture-room is limite<l, seats should 

 be secuied beforehand by application to the 

 Secretary, R.H.S., Vincent Square, West- 

 minster, S.W., who will be please<l to for- 

 ward reserve seat tickets to those applying 

 for them as far as the accommodation will 

 allow. 



plant or two died ; but where charcoal and 

 lime were used^ and also on the unmanured 

 new land, there was no disease at all; so 

 that, although the lime did not prevent the 

 disease, yet 1 am certainly of opinion that 

 lime to correct the sourness of the land is 

 the right thing; hwt it is better still to 

 give the land a rest from all leguminous 

 plants, and to grow them on land that had 

 not ret^ently grown peas. I do not say 

 that these measures will cure the disease, 

 but hope these are steps in the right direc- 

 tion. I think we must look for prevention 

 rather than curo^ as there is no cure once 

 the plant is attacked, it being difficult to 

 catch it in time, as one cannot see the dis- 

 ease till it shows on the leave/ and then 

 the mischief is done, as the roots are dead." 



The Shropshire Damson Crop 



has this year been very heavy, and a cor- 

 respondent informs us that upwards of one 

 hundred tons were despatched by rail from 

 Market Drayton on one day. 



He Wa.nts the Earth.— According 



to the New York Tribune," one of the 

 most unusual claims ever filed with a city 

 department is that of Squire Herrick, at 

 one time a Avell-known nurseryman, re- 

 cently filed with the Cincinnati Park Com- 

 mission. Herrick had leased his nursery 

 on Price Hill to the commission which 

 raised seedling trees and shrubs there. 

 These were later transplanted in various 

 city parks. Herrick now says that when 

 the trees and shrubs were dug up some of 

 his earth clung to the roots. He wants to 

 be paid for the earth which was thus re- 

 moved from his property. He says that 

 during the last four years there must have 

 l>een fifty-five cartloads of it, and asks two 

 dollars a load. 



An 



International 



Horticul- 

 tural Exhibition will be held at New 

 York in April next under the auspices of 

 the Society of American Florists. The ex- 

 hibition will be held in the Grand Central 



YELLOW ROSES FOR 



OUTDOOR CULTURE* 



Since roses have l>een freely xiti]ise<I for 

 massing in the flower garden on Tuuch the 

 same lines as the more beautiful of the 



Palace, Lexington Avenue, New York, tender bechlersare massed, it has, until quite 



from April 5 to 11, 1913. 



Stripe in Sweet Peas. Writing 



■with reference to the damage that is done 

 in many instances by the disease of sweet 

 peas caused by the fungus known as Thie- 

 lavia basicola, a Newmarket correspon- 

 dent directs attention to the great value 

 of lime as a preventive of this dis- 

 ease. He states that, after discussing the 

 question of manuring the land for sweet 

 peas with a friend, he came to the conclu- 

 sion that there was consi<I<M';i hie ^Iniiircr in 

 using farmyard manure very ircoiy. aiul 

 that an application of lime would' be of 

 value as a corrective of land -which had in 

 previous yeirs hi^vn lirnvi]v manured. He 

 accordingly decideil to put the matter lo 

 ^ practical test, and, -with reference to the 

 ■experiment, ho says: This year (1912) I 

 decided \o experiment with my sweet peas. 

 Being near a lime work.s, I i)rocured some 

 lime (dust), and divided my sweet pen Innd 

 into several parts, treating each ])an dif- 

 terently. On one pnrt ordinary farmvnnl 

 manuro was iimmI, and on another lime and 

 farmyanl manure. On otii> j)ie('<> lime only 

 ^vns applied in lilxu'al quantities. \uu\ oil 

 piece lime and charcoal were used. 



recently, bt^en a matter of frequent com- 

 ment that there are but few if any roses with 

 yellow flowers that can be employed with 

 any consi<lerable degree of success for bed- 

 ding purposes. For a very long time there 

 have l)een yellow roses, and many of them 

 of great beaxity, but they have not pos- 

 sessed the qualities in a marked degree that 

 constitute a bedding rose of the first class. 

 A rose, to be really useful for the filling 

 of beds in the flower garden, should be of 

 nKHltMate luMglit, have a free-branching 

 habit, l)loom freelv and continuouslv from 

 Juno until October, ami have flowers that 

 are of fairly good quality and pleasing and 

 efl'ect in colour. Be<lding n)s;os shouhl 

 bear, excepting in colour, a close resem- 

 blance to that Avell-known and beautiful 

 hybrid tea Caroline Testout. None of the 

 older yellow roses possesseil these essentials 

 in a sufficient degree to justify their haA - 

 ing a prominent position among the first- 

 <'lass IxMlding varieties. Probably Madame 

 Hoste and Mario Van Houtte approached 

 tlu^ most closely to tlu^ i<leal bedding rose, 

 i>ut not close enough to admit of their being 

 freely utilistxl in bedding schemes. 



The activities of the raisers both at home 



effect in the garden as one could wish, but 

 this year it has grown freely and bhwmed 

 profusely, and fuily substantiated its claims 

 for consideration at the hands of rosarians. 

 It may not be quite so perfect in growth as 

 could be desired, but it has no serious defect 

 in this respect, and its bright yellow flowers 

 are produced so freely that the bed devoted 

 to it has been one of the most effective of 

 the rose beds in my garden. This season it 

 should be planted largely, more especially 

 in gardens where bedding roses find favour. 



Another rose that should be freely planted 

 where yellow-flowered varieties are aj^pre- 

 ciated is the Duchess of Wellington, which 

 was introduced three years since, and has 

 had time to become established. This differs 

 considerably from the first-mentioned, and 

 therefore does not come into competition 

 with it. The growth is fi'ee-branching and 

 erect, and the flowers are Iwrne with great 

 freedom, the buds are long and pointed, 

 and the colour is rich saffron-yellow suffused 

 with orange. The leaves are deep bronze- 

 green^ and present a most pleasing contrast 

 to the rich yellow flowers. Lady Hilling- 

 don, which was introduced two years since, 

 is somewhat similar to the variety imme- 

 diately preceding it, but it belongs to the 

 tea-scented varieties. It has rather large, 

 well-formed orange-yellow flowers and 

 deep green foliage, the leaves bronze- 

 crimson in the earlier stages. Free 

 in flowering and rich in colour, it is very 

 attractive during the greater part of the 

 season. It appears to be somewhat vari- 

 able in growth, for in some gardens in which 

 the soil is rather light, as, for example, at 

 Kew, the blooms have not been held up 

 well, but on rather heavier soils the 

 growths have been stout and the blooms 

 erect. This variety should prove useful, 

 not only for producing a bright effect in 

 the flower garden, but for the supply of 

 blooms and buds for indoor decorations. 

 Another variety with orange-yellow 

 s that is of special interest at the pre- 

 sent time is Sunburst, which received the 

 National Rose Society ^s gold medal last 

 month. This high award was made in con- 

 sideration of its value for culture under 

 glass, and w^as unquestionably well de- 

 served. AMiether it will be equally valu- 

 able for the flower garden has yet to be 

 seen. It has a strong branching habit, is 

 free in flowering, and the blooms are borne 

 on stiff stems, and it should be useful in 



is sufficient 



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the flower garden ; the promi 

 to justify it being planted with a view to 

 determining this point in the course of next 

 summer. Ladv Pirrie, a hvbrid tea that 

 distributed in 1910, is a charming de- 



oorative rose that should be freely planted. 

 The flowers are rather large, of good fotm, 

 and the colour apricot-yellow, red-salmon 

 on the outside of the petals, a chjirming 

 combination, but the yellow is not vo pro- 

 minent as in the preceding varieties. Lady 

 Downe, one of last year s novelties, is a re- 

 markablv fine rose, the colour deep yellow 

 snffnsed buff. a]i<l ]>assing Avitb aeo to pale 

 vell(n\ , antl sliould bo incbuhxl in the roses 

 purcha.sod tbis season. Lady Greenall, also 

 one of last yeai's intro<luctions, is full of 

 promise; the blooms are large and of good 

 form, and ate crraTn-Avhite with orange- 

 vellow in the centre and tii^ted \\ith pink 

 on the outside of the petals. 



The effect ivelv-coloured Marquise de 



vastly I grew some on land that had never and abroad have result (m1 in tlie introduc- Sinety brings us back to the really yello^^ 



grown sweet peas before this ; but T did 

 |iot apply anything at all to this, as it 

 uas always had rich farmyard manure, but 

 had not been manured for two years, and 

 had grown root crops and cabbages. Now 

 for the result. On the part <m whicli farm 

 manure was used the disease was bad ; 

 ^vhere lime and manure were both used 

 tne diseavHe was slight — about five plants 

 were inf*vted ; whei^e lime onlv was used a 



tion of a considerable number of yellow 

 lo^es ihat have the promise of becoming of 

 <'onsiderable value for arrangements in the 

 flower garden in whi<'h (\u h htnl is <!evote<l 

 to one variety. The most noteworthy of 

 the newer varieties is the much-talke<l-of 

 Rayon d'Or, which was introduce<l to culti- 

 vation two yea I S since. Last year, owing 

 to the great heat and long-continiunl 

 drou<dit, it did not produce so striking an varieties in bord 



roses, and must be mentioned as one of the 

 best of the older roses of its colour. It has 

 the merit of being free in flowering, and 

 tlie blooms are of me<lium size, mmlerately 

 full, and of a briirht irolden-vellow colour, 

 suffused bronze-red. The growth is not suffi- 

 cientlv free-branchinsi to justify it bein<i 

 included among boflding roses, but it is 

 hitrhlv attractive when associated with other 



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