Decekber 7, 1912. 



THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



937 



THE NEWER HYBRID TEA 



ROSES. 



Dm'ing the last few years new varieties 

 of roses have been introduced in consider- 

 able numbei^, especially in the hybrid 

 tea section, so that it is most difficult 

 for the ordinary grower to keep pace with 

 the latest introductions. With a view of 

 assisting the inexperienced during the 

 planting season^ 1 purpose noting some of 

 those most desirable. 



British Queen is 'a desirable variety; it 

 flowered well at the end oiF summer when 

 many other varieties were on the wane. 

 The flowers are of full size, quite solid and 

 shapely, with nicely imbricated petals of a. 

 dull whito colour, with just a shade of 

 lemon in the centre. 



Sunburst. — There has been much criti- 

 cism of this variety, but I think highly of 

 it, especially for culture imder glass, and 

 for indoor decorations, and am imder the 

 impression that it will replace Lady Hilling- 

 don for indoor culture^ being so much stiffer 

 in the stem, in addition to having good foli- 

 age. The colour is better under glass than 

 out of doors, and it is yellow with orange 

 centre. The buds are quite shapely and 

 full. 



Mrs. Edward Powel. — In colour this is 

 a remarkable rose, bright crimson, with a 

 velvety suffusion, and in bud or when fully 

 expanded it is attractive. As a bedding 

 rose this should be in great demand ; it is 

 free in flowering, and has deep green -foli- 

 age, and a vigorous yet compact habit. 



Gaston Bounier is a sliapely flower of a 

 silvery-flesh colour^ with a rich golden-rose 

 centre. In growth it is not vigorous, but 

 free flowering. 



Countess of Shaftesbury is one of the 



most promising, shapely roses sent out for 

 some years ; the colour is a rich rosy-pink. 



liady Greenali lias a long, pointed bud, 

 rich orange at the base, heavily tone<l with 

 pink over creamy-white. 



Leslie Holland is deep scarlet-crimson, 

 heavily veined with velvet red ; lorge, 

 shapely blooms, deliciously perfumed, and 

 a capital grower. 



Auguste Rodrigues has a sweet perfume ; 

 the large loose petals are crimson, flushed 

 with a velvety sheen. 



Carine is well worth a place in any col- 



lec^tiou where cut blooms are appreciated. 



the flowers are small, pointed, most charm- 



|ng in the bud state, orange-carmine, suf- 



Inswl with buff; an excellent habit of 

 giowth. 



Edward Mawley has surprised me by its 

 manner of growth and freedom of flowering 

 jwt of doors. I look upon it as one of the 

 nnest roses we have. The massive petals 

 are sweetly perfumed, deep velvety crimson. 



Lady Downe has bufF-(H)loured flowers, 

 snade<l with <Ioep yellow in tlio centre, pal- 

 ^"S with expansion, and is of great value. 



Mabel Drew is quite one of the finest 

 ^*gnt^oloure<l rosos we have. Tlio flowers 

 are at all tiiru^s xliajX'lv : <'anarv-v< ll<nv. 



passing to alnM)>i \\llitt^ dcliciouslV fra- 

 grant. 



I^ady Margaret Boscawen has a fawn 

 "^ase, flushed with pink. 



Radium is a sport from Caroline Te»tout, 

 Sleeper in colour and more shapely. 



Pmk Liberty is a sport from the well- 

 Known Liberty, but the vvXuwv is carmine 

 rather than pink; a desiralile variety, hav- 

 ''Jg all the gooil points of its parents in 

 •^nape and fragrance. 



Norissa is a most shajx^ly flower, cr(\unv- 

 yeilow,^ shaded white, centre tinted witii 

 pfw^h in its early stages of devi^lopmem ; 

 flo\\<*ring. 



^^plielia is a beautiful rose: salmon-flesh. 



shaded with rose ; a finely shaped flower, 

 most promising as an exhibition variety. 



Portia, as a pot rose, is not excelled ; the 

 large, pointed flowers open evenly out of 

 doors, and it grows freely and blossoms 

 profusely ; in colour delicate pink, shaded 

 white. E. MoLYNEUX. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Early Propagation of Late 



Varieties. 



It is very disappointing to the cultivator 



bably, be thin and show an open centre 

 full of seed florets. The propagation of 

 the cuttings has much to do with the nice 

 timing of breaks, and buds and early pro- 

 pagation of naturally late sorts is certaiijly 

 advisable, independent of the propagation 

 of them in spring, when the after treat- 

 ment is different to that in the case of early 

 rooted plants. 



No bottom heat should be given to these 

 early-rooted cuttings. They may be placed 

 in a heated frame or in a propagating case 

 in a warm greenhouse, l)ut not in any posi- 

 tion where the stems will be weakened bv 



when a batch of plants representing some undue forcing. The cuttings will take a 



Tin: LAWN AND EOL.NUAKY. 



good _ 



time in spring. Of course, the only way 

 out the!i is to pinch the shoots and cause 



a break. 



If a lato-ilowering variety makes a natu- 

 ral break early in April, we will say, the 

 probability is that the first crown bud on 

 the plant will appear in good time in 

 August. But if the sam,v plant be pinchetl 

 at the date in April the crown bud will, 

 ir.ost likely, appear a week or ten days 

 Inter in August. The <lifference in time 

 dors Tint sceiii to matter much, but there 



a vast ilitloreuce in resultant blooms. 



good if they were sul)jected to a bottom heat. 



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rijose from the ]>laut wliif-li mad^v the natu- 

 ral break will b*^ full and <h'ei), but tliose 



from the plant which was stopped will, pro- early. 



longer time to root than would be tlie case 

 but the progress of the yo^nig plants will 

 be more satisfactorv. 



A Few Leading: Varieties to 



Prop9.gate Early. 



Mrs. Gilbert Drabble, white; Mrs. H. 

 Tbornton, l>lusli-wlnte ; Master David, deep 

 crimson; Hon. Mrs. Loi>i»s, vellow ; H. E. 



1. • 



Converse, re<ldisb bionze, with gold re- 

 verse; Fred (irci'ii, rich pur])le ; F. Chand- 

 ler, red, gold reverse; ]\Iadame J. Kivol, 

 yellow, flushed rose; Madame P. Radaeli, 

 w b i t e , t i n ted ro se . D uchess of Fife, in 

 the incurved section, should also be rooted 



Gko. Garner. 



