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THE 



GA RDENERS' MA GAZINE 



New French Roses 



Herzogin Marie 



I 



FOR a very long number of years I have in one way or another chronicled 

 the advent of the new French roses. I used at one time annually to pay 

 a visit to Paris to see for myself, if I could, what the novelties were, 

 had many a pleasant chat with old Margottin, with Verdier, Leveque, and 

 others ; and once or twice I went down to Lyons. I do not know that I 

 ever pained much information at Paris except on one occasion, when I 

 was the first Englishman who saw Marechal Niel ; but generally I was 

 told that there had been a thunder storm, and the roses were all 

 "abimees." During those years (more than forty) very great changes 

 have taken place, many of the old rose growers have passed away ; 

 Charles Verdier, Margottin, Lacharme, J. B. Guillot, Gounod, and 

 Schwartz, no longer are engaged in the pleasant and profitable occupation 

 of raising and sending out seedlings. But what wonderful flowers they 

 have left us. Will their successors— for some of them have successors — 

 he ever able to give us anything that will surpass Marie Baumann or 

 A. K. Williams, or such teas as Comtesse de Nadaillac or Souvenir 

 d Elise Vardon ? I very much question it Then, again, I see not only 

 change in those who send them out, but also in the character of the 

 flowers raised. We used to be flooded every year with a great quantity 

 of hybrid perpetuals, good, bad, and indifferent ; but now they are few in 

 number, and the prominent place they once occupied is now taken by 

 teas and hybrid teas. It seems as if they thought that they had got to 

 the end of their tether, as far as H.P.'s are concerned, and finding that a 

 new class of hybrid teas had been pushed forward into notice, they had 

 met the implied demand by going in very much for these ; and it is a 

 somewhat curious fact that many of the new varieties have been pro- 

 duced from hybridised seed, of which Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, a popular 

 English rose raised by the late Mr. Henry Bennett, was one of the 

 parents. 



Of hybrid perpetuals only seven new ones are announced, while of teas 

 there are thirty-two, and of hybrid teas there are ten ; this is entirely 

 reversing the former state of things. We used also formerly to see many 

 of the new announcements in the stands for new roses at our national 

 exhibitions ; but here again is a new order of things, for since our home 

 growers have raised so many excellent flowers most of these stands are 

 filled with British, instead of foreign raised roses. The descriptions are 

 all grand, and the colours announced truly marvellous, but the only 

 guide that we can really have is the character of the raisers and what 

 they have done for us in former years. 



Hybrid Perpetuals 



< >f these, as I have said, there are seven ; they are : — 

 Comte de Mont, kilo (Leveque) ; it is described as brilliant cerise-red 

 (of which wc have plenty), a large flower and full. 



Comte Rand Chandoiu (Leveque); a well-formed flower, vermilion- 

 red shaded with brown. 



Comtesse de Greffulke (Leveque) ; this is described as a reddish 

 brown shaded with vermilion and purple, a curious combination of 

 Colours, but large and full. 



Comtesse Rente de Beam (Leveque) ; dark carmine shaded with dark 

 purple, reflex of the petals scarlet. 



Louise fuller (Dr. Muller) ; bright red, borne in clusters, and con- 

 tinuing in flower throughout the season. 



Oscar Cordel (P. Lambert) ; cup-shaped flower, of a clear, bright 

 carmine, very free flowering. ' * w 



P f re 0ger); a large globular-shaped flower, 



with large petals of a very bright, beautiful rose colour. 



on* firm u'Tu ™ this short list that the S reater nuirbei ' come from 

 nf .fl ' )i haS u sent out year after y ear a nuniber of new flowers, but 

 ts Sn r,™ 5 ' T e , which remains Permanently in our exhibition 

 cSmte SK^ M an \ R ° d f a *achi ; two others, Devienne Lamy and 

 Comte de Pans, have had their day but are now superseded. 



of a 



Josephine Dauphin (Liaba 

 with yellow in the centre. 



Madame Chebaune (Liabaud 

 outside of petals creamy white. 



Madame de Moidrey (Vve. ! 

 red, centre bright carmine, reve 

 and salmony yellow. 



Madame Desir- Vincent (Ch 

 yellow, salmon at the base, 

 violet. 



. s,n 8»y, out 

 'haded wift 



ihaded 



canary yc li 01r 



' ' uuiae Singly, 



petals tinted with bright 



car 

 can 



me 



rose and 



or. 



it 



Teas and Noisettes. 



Amm (Nabo„„a„d) ) g lo ssy light ro*. the centre a deeper (P. Guillol) , china-rose odour, «0 



shade. 



WAm^hJl^^ ( ?° Upert and N o«ing) ; large flower, very full, 

 onck-red, shading off at base to yellow ' 



shaded^ roZ^ ^ (KettCrS) 5 Urge ful1 fl ° wers « yelIowish white » 

 ^J^°TL * T ?™™ (Soupert and Netting) ; large and stout 



^^^^^ ° f PCtalS 8 ° lden Sh/ded With 



Catharine CZevrh*- v n.-r v 



Madame Grenville Gore Langton (Nabonnand) ; a l ar ^ full fl 

 coppery-yellow, red at base, centre rose-lake * 



Madame Louis Gravier(Gamow); well-shaped flower, clear sal 

 shade tinted with orange-yellow, edged with carmine-rose Wsal 



Mdlle. Anna Chartron (Vve. Schwartz) ; a lar^e fan fl n 

 shaped^ cream colour, tinted and edged with bright carmin^ccS 



Mdlle. Germaine Molinier (Vve. Schwartz) ; apricot-salmon shad** 

 with rose. ' 



Mdlle. Marie Therhe Molinier (Vv e. Schwartz) ; peach shade of 

 yellow at base, shading off to light rose. ™ 



Marquis de Lagarde (Chauvry) ; a large full flower, violet-red in 

 spring, dark rose in the autumn, reverse of petals blood-red 



Monseigneur Toiichct (Corbceuf) ; full large flower, well shaoed • a 

 beautiful creamy-white. ^ 1 



Raoul Chauvry (Chauvry) ; light yellow, shaded copper colour court 

 sometimes apricot. ' 



Souvenir de Jeanne Cabaud (Guillot) ; a large well-shaped flower 

 outside petals coppery-yellow, those in centre apricot-yellow ■ a very fine 

 variety. 



Valentine Altermaun (Nabonnand) ; a well-made flower, pure white. 



There are two or three things that strike one on looking through this 

 list. So many flowers are described as globular, which I hardly think is 

 the true shape for a tea rose ; they are much more beautiful when the 

 buds are long and pointed. Then, again, so many of them are high 

 coloured, which to my mind is out of place amongst tea roses. Delicate 

 shades of peach, apricot, yellow, and creamy white are those which I 

 think are generally preferred. And, again, many of them come fro© 

 apparently unknown raisers ; there are, however, two flowers which we 

 ought to look forward to with some degree of confidence, as they come to 

 us from Guillot. I remember the time well enough when we used to 

 speak of the present Pierre Guillot as "Young Guillot," his father being 

 then living. Nabonnand has also given us some good roses, especially 

 in the garden varieties, so that we may look for something pleasing 

 amongst his new announcements. 



Hybrid Teas. 



Ferdinand Bat el (Pernet Ducher) ; a long flower of two colours, 

 varying from very light flesh colour to nankeen yellow at the base, son* 

 times orange-yellow, very beautiful. 



Ferdinand Jamin (Pernet Ducher) ; globular-shaped rose-canw« 

 shaded with salmon. 



Grossherzogin Vic toria Melita (P. Lambert) ; long bud, large flow* 

 cream colour with yellow centre, somewhat similar to Kaise'rin AugWtt 

 Victoria, but more vigorous. m , • 



Gruss au Teplitz^ large cup- shaped flower, cinnamon-red, lit up wid 

 fiery red. 



Gudrun (C. Jacobs) ; silvery-pink, centre clear fiery red. 

 Madame Cadeau Rainey (Pernet Ducher ; a large well-shaped now. 

 rosy flesh-colour shaded with yellow at the base of the petals, whicii a* 



Jules Grole 



flowering. . . _ s , 



Mdlle. Marguerite Appert ; a very large globular-shaped rum* 

 brilliant bright red, darker at base of petals. » „ 



Preciosa (Vieweg) ; velvety-shaded carmine-red, shading «■ 



crimson. 



itside of 



petals, inside bright carmine-red. 



Latharine Gerchen Freundlich (Ketten) • outside carmine mse r ^nt« . 1 th5nk il is impossible from these descriptions to ac 

 streaked with coppery red. K ' C carmine ' rose <*ntre, what the flowers ^ , and sQ {% k t0 be hope d that « 



i.nnrfecc* flSJ*.^ j. ^, . i , r . , 1 . . i • i .: «f f h^ir mPri' 



coppery red. 



Clermon 



e may have ^ 



The* 



ecot- 



never 



_ y er Y large well-formed flower, 



^dcredwUhOTinV 5 ^^ tk darker at base » each P etaI largely 



rose. This variety received a gold medal at the 



Lyons exhibition of 1895. 



shaded whh ^"n^™"™® ; a ver y ful1 fl °wer, salmon-rose, 



icmcu myseit witn describing those wnicn uciung «. — 

 classes of exhibition roses : a great many of them wl . _ -. 

 anything of, but we shall only be too thankful if some of our r.. 

 professionals will give us the opportunity of seeing mem 1^ ^ 

 season ; our expectations are moderate, so perhap 

 disappointed. 



our ei 

 in the coo 



s we 



H. H. Of. 



'•™T*MseCl M \G\ uck): 



new >hatie 



centre pui 



push crimson. 



i*mrt de Devtnter f^. 



b 



i the outer petals dark red, centre of 

 outside pale amaranth, reflex amethyst, 



otting) ; creamy white, reverse of 

 a very well formed flower, of a 



n centre. 



Leveque) ; 



Phlox amtenaand P. divaricata.-The brilliant colour 



of Phlox amoena should lead to its being more largely | f 0 /^ tbe« ^ 

 now in flower here are very attractive, the plants being «>«r ^ - t &0 

 pink flowers, borne on stems siv inches in height. As *"j*L* »eU 



the rockery, s""^ 1 ^, tao***Z 



Another dwarf species now in Bower is P. ^^J^ ft* «° 

 TK» a, 5_ , d^nrlpr stems, aDoui y ^ ^ 



^. ^ . .lowers, n 7 ^- j . u,ese J***^^ 



making a fine contrast. For the front row of a bower. ^ ^ 

 W CfW ** Ve w "en planted in a mass, thriving well m 



i^- S M Woking* 



an admirable subject for edging as well 

 any soil. * ■ - & & 



canaden^. x lJC uuwers are Q n . ' t >u{ s 



bearing corymbs of pale-blue flowers. A white vane^^^^ 



