GARDENERS MAGAZINE. 



Election, and fully appreciates the distinctive beauty of 

 rtpresentative collect , ^ wag made a few days previ ous to 



S th ^ SeC J^th^National Rose Society's tea trophy, which Mr 

 the competition tori ^ ^ he d]d not p roceed 



L barters devoted to the teas, but made a detour to show me 

 direct to the 0"*" tQ the free-growing varieties popularly known as 

 tbe enclosure sej *F Mr> 0rpen takes much interest, and it is not 



P" 16 " -fS should do so, for the majority are represented by specimens 

 jjrpnsmg oe* bg difficu i t to convey an adequate 



me 



licab!e ti Stt densely flowertd bush of Klance Double de Courbet, 



offhe most beautiful of the rugosas, fully five feet in diameter, and 



01 LUC 111 ^ _ t-» •_ « U J f« Q f fhvnnnrh \ C T V fine 



„ large that it wo their measurements, which is not now prac- 



«* nS,M i S S^JEKF note of two specimens that pleased — 



unmensely, one a 



«f thp most beauiimi w w 



SadSd of Gustave Regis, with a head four feet through. 

 . ^ the examples of Rainbow, especially good in standard form ; 



Hebe's Lip, L'Ideal, Paul's Single White, and 

 w tfhata alba Here also were great masses of the strong-growing 

 See briars, such as Amy Robsart, Brenda, and Lucy Ashton, 

 mr to a height of ten feet, producing a profusion of flowers, and 

 Slim? the air with their delicate perfume. The garden roses have as a 

 T«ndary on one side a rose arch, over which various climbers spread 

 Saotly, and Droduce a profusion of flowers. Chief among these are 

 mson Rambler, Dundee Rambler, and Clair Jacquier, the specimen of 

 the last-named having no equal. The growth covers a space of twenty 

 feet bv ten feet, and when I saw it it was bearing thousands of trusses 

 of its pleasing flowers. The Garland was promising a not less attractive 

 play, for, spreading over a boundary fence, it was furnished with an 

 enormous number of trusses, some consisting of upwards of two hundred 



buds. .... 

 The show roses for the production of exhibition blooms are grown in 



the kitchen garden, and the teas and noisettes are grown almost 



telusively as standards and half standards, these giving much better 



blooms with Mr. Orpen than dwarfs. There are about five hundred of 



these, and in walking through the lines special note was made of Cleopatra, 



ouvenird'un Ami, Madame Cusin, Souvenir de S. A. Prince, Enchantress, 



out of the fine teas recently introduced by Messrs. William Paul and 



Son, and held in high estimation at West Bergholt, more especially for 



its continuity and profusion of flowering ; Sylph, Maman Cochet, Marie 



Van Houtte, Caroline Kuster, Madame Hoste, Corinna, considered one 



of the best of the teas for the garden ; and Anna Olivier. Mr. Orpen 



Us the hybrid teas in high estimation, and mentioned Caroline 



Testout, Viscountess Folkestone, Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, which makes 



■Ignificent standards ; Madame Pierre Cochet, Marquis Litta, and Mrs. 

 W.J.Grant. 



A lover of flowers might linger long in this delightful garden, but after 

 eavmg the roses it was not possible to do more than take a cursory 

 lance at the other features. It, however, could be seen that Mr. Orpen 

 bas an excellent collection of hardy plants, and that he takes an active 

 ateitst tn hardy fruits, which are cultivated with exceptional success. 



Mr. B. R. Cant's Nurseries. 



This important establishment has so much that is of interest to 

 jwanans associated with it that I might devote ten times the space I 

 we now available to it without any risk of tiring my readers. But for 

 we present it rrust suffice to indicate rather than to speak in detail of 

 ^culture which has obtained for this veteran rosarian renown wherever 

 oWlnnmffT l nd appreciated, and has accomplished so much in the 

 ETr ? e "^"growing industry which has brought so much 

 Wn'e ime tt eSter k, Mr ' B - R - Cant ' s health has not tor 



«* ie hn.in l bled hlm t0 take an active P art in the management 

 **L fmm S S 1 the re § ret one naturally feels in missing this 

 ^DrorL^fi h ' bltl0ns ^ n - d meeti "gs, where for many years he has 

 **sr?Cer HL g £ r< V S mi '« ated b y the knowledge that his two sons, 

 ^aad i u nt ' have inherited their Other's love for the 



W »ffSlS 08e t? h f attributes which have brought him so much 

 "«« continiip k ave some evid ence of the success with which 



*the National pL c grown ,n the record of the metropolitan exhibition 



* pt£S SoCi,it y on 2nd ' when the challer 

 *» 'or forty ^, s . event y-two, and the first prize in the not 



* rideaTJS&.W ™&*}0 Mr. B. R. Cant. 



ie challenge trophy in 



less difficult 



•dea is' ohtalnTS avv * ruc , u lo IVir - a - <~ant. But a much 



the roses a ! o V * W f k ' h ° Wever brisk ' throu S h the fields in 

 ¥«ad running 15?^ c n ¥ exceedingly pleasant spot on the 



lL"«cient Ttl tol °k h fr u° m the town ' Mn B - R - Cant has a farm 

 Wt*^n , a t0 enable him to take several a(m '~iU.,~.i crops 



is being able 

 splendid condition 



*een 



» do 



each cron «f~~ ' , to . take several agricultural 



- this k P £ f - roses ' and ^e advantages of hi 



whole of 1 S f ufficientl y manifest in the 



_ u ! c 01 the tens nf *v> 



<rf twentylcr?^,nV hOUSands °/ plants ' Altogether there are 



IS? 11 8 iv es each hLl V r ° S f' and as a wel1 devis ed system of been 



*** .Obtained new ' the best 



Intents 



rich 



such 



excessive use of manure, or the 

 eight acre field of maiden 



roses 



^5ucn t0P dressin ^ s - The 

 ^ as to produce an impression upon 



»!fi?^dsof d^ Arranged in unserried ranks 



SCft 1 a growth ^ chietly the latter, and making 



S£**bi*H *ZrJ*# the characteristics of the varied leafage is so 



fe5^£? th . at *enovkc 



:> 71 S rec ^nize each of th ^ * sur P nsin ^ I y sh ^rt space of time would 

 ; M 15 out in £Sf K n 1 ur ^ erous ***** from the foliage alone. 



JL^es are p i ant S S g b '°? 5 ' Wlth Wlde s P a( =es between them 

 ^&em»r,w.- f'^ntw m rows ahnnt . 



ever and expressed the opinion that they would still further increase in 

 popularity if planters would select none but those varieties which, by 

 reason of their vigorous habit, are well adapted for that form of tree. 

 Nearly all the hybrid teas are, he considers, well suited for culture 

 as standard teas, but some of the finest of the hybrid perpetuals 

 make splendid standards, and before the planting season again comes 

 round I must ask him to give the readers of the Gardeners' Magazine 

 the advantage of his unique experience. 



The greatest wealth of flowers was to be found in the quarters 

 devoted to cutbacks, and it would be safe to hazard a guess that the 

 greater portion of the flowers with which Mr. 



honours this season have been cut from these. 



Cant has obtained his 



The maidens when I saw 



them were, in consequence of the lateness of the season, not sufficiently 

 advanced to yield many blooms, or to afford an opportunity of seeing the 

 new varieties at their best, for the latter are necessarily chiefly found 

 amongst these ; but they will yield their harvest in good time, and there 

 should be a plentiful profusion of roses until quite late m the season. A 

 few of the novelties were producing good blooms, and amongst them 

 were Ferdinand Batel and Madame Cadeau-Ramey, of which cultivators 

 should make note as valuable additions to the list of hybrid teas. An 

 immensely attractive feature of these nurseries is the rose hedges, of 

 which I shall have something to say at no distant date, but visitors 

 should not forget to see them whilst in the full flush of their wondrous 



beauty. 



Messrs. Frank Cant and Co.'s Nurseries. 



At Braiswick a 



These nurseries are situate in one of the most pleasant spots around 

 Colchester, in the direction of Braiswick, and the rate at which they are 

 extending suggests the idea that the firm is engaged in the endeavour to 

 convert the district into one large rose garden. However that may be, 

 we have evidence that the integrity, the energy, and the skill displayed by 

 Mr. Frank Cant since he established himself at Braiswick, are meeting 

 with their due reward in the form of a continuous increase in business. 

 It is now some five years since I last had the pleasure of a walk through 

 the fields of roses at Braiswick, and although I have been fully acquainted 

 witfi the fact that the firm has been steadily increasing in popularity, I 

 was not a little surprised to find how remarkable had been the 

 augmentation in the resources of the establishment, 

 farm of I know not how many acres is devoted to roses which take their 

 place in the rotation of crops, and thus have the advantage of land that 

 has not been occupied by roses for several years previous. The benefit 

 to the roses is made manifest in the splendid growth of both dwarfs and 

 standards, and the superb development of the blooms. In walking 

 through the breaks one is struck with the firm, short-jointed growth that 

 is being produced, a point of some interest, as indicating conditions 

 favourable to the production of fibrous roots, chief among these being a 

 substantial yet friable soil/ and good cultivation, the latter including a 

 constant use of hand and horse hoe. 



Mental note was made of a goodly number of varieties in walking 

 through the several fields, but I cannot do now more than briefly 

 refer to ttfo novelties that have had their origin at Braiswick. The 

 first is Mrs. Frank Cant, a beautiful hybrid perpetual, introduced a 

 year or two since, and now becoming generally known and highly 

 appreciated. This has finely formed flowers of a bright pink hue, and 

 is remarkably free, as evidenced by the fact that in a quarter of cut-backs 

 containing nine rows there were no less than two thousand five hundred 

 blooms in various stages of development, and all of high quality, the 

 average number on each plant being six. The other novelty is Muriel, 

 a brilliant carmine-pink sport from Suzanne Marie Rodoconachi, 

 which, by reason of its fine form and effective colour, has, unless I am 

 much mistaken, a great future before it. 



Garden roses receive the attention that becomes their importance, 

 and amonst these the Penzance briars occupy a prominent position. 

 The hedges of those in the nurseries admirably illustrate their value in 

 the formation of boundaries, and the hedge which has been formed 

 round a large pond is especially attractive, and affords an object lesson 

 which those who have an opportunity of seeing should not be slow to 



take advantage of. 



Messrs. D. Prior and Son's Nurseries. 



The establishment of this enterprising firm is the most recent of the 

 nurseries devoted to rose culture at Colchester, and, as in the ewe of the 

 two others to which I have briefly referred, contains much that is of 

 interest to rosarians. Situate within a comparatively short distance of 

 the railway station, the nurseries occupy a position amid charming sur- 



A'Zr. a„ri iffhrd a trreat divers ty of soils and aspects more or less 

 roundings, and afford a jreata^ ^ y ^ ^ wth that is being 



The firm has 



long 

 that 



fawuiabte to roses, as evidenced by he splendid growth 

 Side by the plants and the high quality of the flowers. 



established, but it is only within a comparatively short 

 • a fw tw have devoted special attention to the cultivation 

 P f . and £ neTdeoanure has been fully justified by the large 

 numbS A" haTbeen obtained a. .heVa.ional Rose Society 

 nu .. k v ™ o„h other important gatherings, and the extension of busi- 

 ness S nee" roses hav^ S made a special ffai ure of the Myland Nurseries, 



o w fielrf has been added until the nurseries have assumed the pro- 

 field after held has been aa ^ ^ 



P ? n*L«l -tn Z hieheft possible state of development, 

 of all ^^."IM^ t P 0U ch to this hasty sketch of a day among the 

 CoiS^r^Wiknow^ that'the pleasure was greatly 

 enhanced 6 by the friendly ^^L^^^SL^IS^J^S; 



ST* c °minuou , 7 rOWS about three feet apart across them the enhanced bv the friendly feeling that exists amongst the several rosarians,. 

 ftS* ^ th tCid ( Tu ° ne Side of the field to the other vviTh he Thev of course, enter into a keen competition with each other, but it is 



S* the «*» can Sthe most ^J^MjSS ^ ** ^ TT 



^ aintai ned^ j ^ ; h ° e u nd Smart cob > the surf ace soil can 

 • >• ! ong in he film ^ throu S hout ^ season. One might 



J?** of tne "eld, making notes of the peculiarities of the 



- a„u m cf i "^Presented, but time flies and the 



standards M r r 0C ^ sbad t0 - be seen - In admiring the 



' Mr - Cec 'l Cant said they were as popullr as 



the town enjoys as a great centre of rose culture. 



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