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MAGAZINE. 



437 



t summer's sun, while the rest can only be expected to start 



Siblv into growth m i the ■sP r J n ||j tQ draw upon Qur imagination besides 

 But there 's n° r " rQse Js heir to do not come upon it during a 



o we will take as an example the past winter, one of the 



tbusiast at , 

 Jith. So far so good 



tear, we 



& r0SC y lu' in recent years for the establishment of young plants 

 ,„ favourable in w ^ ^ therefore p i cture the plants of our young 

 their new quanc . ^ se!LSOn as having made satisfactory 



""^ so good, Still, keeping to the experiences of the pre- 



find that towards the end of March or beginning of April 

 - ' ~ na shoots were shortened. For with young plants, such early 

 * % recommended for established roses is not advisable. In due 

 t^to^oaag leaves made their appearance, and with them innumerable 



^«1hfd\TtSon of these insect pests all went well with the plants 

 x Ze but not so with the young rosanan himself, who must have 

 5LiTone to bed in fear and trembling whenever a night frost 



warned knowing what havoc such spring frosts, when unusually severe, 

 , rYro^e garden ; and as the season advances the greater becomes 

 /"'^read of such frosts, because the more permanent are the injuries 

 t' -edfiWy to be. Fortunately, most rose gardens escaped serious 

 toage this year from cold during the spring months, although the 

 CSterlv winds' were for a time very trying. 



There, however, occurred two cold periods in June, the first of 

 which checked the growth of the plants and hardened the more forward 

 fewer buds. Added to which, it brought with it one of the worst and 

 sost persistent attacks of green -fly known for some years. There was 

 ooe peculiarity of growth which must also be attributed either to this 

 check or to the cold weather in the latter half of May, and that was a 

 :t:.,'.mcf lor certain varieties to send up long tapering shoots showing 



The Yellow Abyssinian Rose 



( Rosa eca or Rosa xanthina). 



A few notes on this charming deep yellow coloured rose species are 

 nerewitn offered as a contribution to the Rose Number of the Gardeners' 

 magazine, with the hope that they may prove to be of interest to lovers 

 or decorative roses, especially so, as in consequence of the difficulty 

 hitherto experienced in getting it to flower, it is but little known. 



i? mC P ^ °* thls s P ecie s were brought from Abyssinia by Dr. 

 Aitcnmson a few years ago, and plants from this seed were raised at 

 Kew. 1 he authorities there have only one plant of it, and this plant can 

 be seen growing on the rockery. It was, when I saw it on June 13 of this 

 year, just off flower, and upon inquiry was told that it had had some five 

 or six blooms. Last year it did not flower, but in 1896 it bloomed pro- 

 tusely. This species, named by Dr. Aitchinson Rosa ecae, is thought to 

 be identical with Rosa xanthina, a native of Afghanistan and Persia, 

 described by Lindley and in Hookers " Icones Plantarum." It bears the 

 latter name on the Kew rockery. 



The plant in the illustration came from Mr. George Paul, of Cheshunt, 

 who describes it in his catalogue under the section of botanical varieties 

 as Rosa ecae, the yellow Abyssinian rose." Mr. Paul obtained his first 

 plant from Kew. We have had the plant about six years. It was very 

 small, and in a pot, but we ventured to plant it cut under a south wall in 

 light sandy soil, and kept it dry. For three or four years, until it became 



s protected during the depth 



established and had made fair growth, it r 6 ^ 



of winter by a handlight, but it has had no protection for the last two 

 years, having in the meantime grown to between four and five feet high, 

 and wide in proportion. After throwing up some strong shoots in the 

 spring of 1897, which became well ripened in the summer, it has bloomed 

 this year for the first time, and has borne between fifty and sixty flowers, 



ROSA EC.+:. 



•^"Ur f seetm er ^ 8 fo0t hi * h - With the secon <i cold pe™d 

 1* above . 6Ven aphlS ' and that was a vi sitation of mildew. 



Present ros^J"^ 65 su r fficientl y Nearly some of the worries 

 3 exhibitors the crtlofl' ut of r course » t0 those rosarians who are 

 **' when \ 1 thf It f WOr T of a11 has been the backwardness of a 

 •«ts, with blZr! , I r ° se L shows . h ad to be held without roses, or at 

 ;t "P. so far iT th * liters were in most cases ashamed 



about 



••f 1 «P, so far short did I? f ex T' to r s were in most cases asha 

 J 1 *ay at first Jilht , V fa J ° f the,r ordina «-y exhibition form 

 * *»rm a J \ t? * ht . a PP ear difficult to understand in what con 



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which began to o-,en on May 19. The flowers were single, 

 quarters of an inch in diameter, a deep yellow in colour, mclinmg to 

 orange, like the marsh marigold or kingcup : petals and stamens of an 

 even shade very sweet scented I was given to understand that, except 



r p 'h7„r WeTre ^WaSE? Come.., of .Wo, d, £ ft. 

 grapning. y e *ic rQse came intQ flower It was 



afraid to wait, because of the unsettled 

 fill A w Havs later it was more fully out, with better developed 

 5^«ch^SS on the laterals a low of golden flowers gleam- 

 piooms, e^acn m » charming. 



'" g r:^!—nl Brians ^ay^sse^ao, J^gPg 



g'ven a sketch nf L j r ° se -p ow .ing becomes a species of sport. m S f in inc . " A rosarians who may possess a plant of this species 



^^taken asbein^ to a &W • acks ° f a S,n S le rose se ^on, but these 1 w ° uld ^^«TSe?not happen to come into flower for the 



2 *! ea*^*i?2? ^1^™^ For no two rose g*^^ ^Swait £3 the plant attains to a certain age and 



■*! tried 



the triple o a j f cv - u11<11 urawoacks and advantages. 



' «a« L a :lfi sa Fff ?tat they may, and I 



wucr, me interest in 11 



I have dwelt, as in duty bound, 



r^tainly p"" d Ken of it. No doubt 

 2^the, r r H^ a mos t provoking one 

 5? ***n th« 



., ie mam cr 0D of <U. ttllc " uu "> inere appears every prospect 

 P ^»StmS^SS » W it during j£ of, as 



Edward Mawley 



nrs't few y?a", buuo wail S5 .he plan, attains » a certain age and 



Joseph H. Pemberton. 



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