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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
March 21, 1895. 
Special Prizes of the National Eose Society. 
The Hon. Secretariei of the National Eose Society are happy to 
announce the following list of special prizes which have been placed at 
the disposal of the Committee for the present year. 
Gloucester. —The High Sheriff of Gloucestershire a silver cup, 
value 5 guineas. In local classes Messrs. J. Jefferies & Sons, Ciren¬ 
cester, a silver cup ; Eev. F. E. Burnside, a silver challenge cup; the 
Mayor and Corporation of Gloucester, a silver cup ; the English Fruit 
and Eose Company, prizes for Moss, garden, and single Eoses ; besides 
money prizes and medals by the Eev. B, S. Dawson, Messrs. J. Jefferies 
and Sons, Mr. Conway Jones, Mrs. Gambier Parry, Mr. T. Thorpe, Mr. 
W, J. Johnstone Vaughan, Mr. T. A. Washbourne, Messrs. J. C. Wheeler 
and Son, Kingsholm Nursery, Gloucester; and Captain de Winton. All the 
other prizes in the numerous local classes are provided by the Gloucester¬ 
shire Eose Society. 
Crystal Palace. —Messrs. Harknes8& Sons, The Grange Nurseries, 
Bedale, Yorks, a challenge cup value 25 guineas ; the Eight Hon. Lord 
Penzance, a silver cup value 6 guineas ; Mr. Frank Cant, Braiswick 
Nurseries, Colchester, a special prize value £5 ; the Hon. Mrs. 
J. Townshend Boscawen, a piece of plate value 3 guineas; Mr. 
E. Mawley, a piece of plate value 2 guineas ; besides money prizes by 
the Eev. W. J. Mellor, Mr. 0. G. Orpen, Messrs, Paul & Son, The Old 
Nurseries, Cheshunt, the Eev. J. H. Pemberton, and Mr. C. E. Shea. 
Derby. —The Eight Hon. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, M.P., a 
silver cup value £10 ; the Eoyal Crown Derby Porcelain Company 
(Limited), a Crown Derby vase value 5 guineas ; the Mayor of Derby, a 
piece of plate value 3 guineas; and a money prize by Sir Thomas 
Eoe, M.P. 
New Eoses. 
We used to be taught in our Latin grammar that “experience 
teaches us,” but either it is a lesson which our foreign rosarians have not 
yet learned, or else there is some mysterious way in which they make a 
profitable business out of their new seedlings of which we are ignorant. 
What becomes of those varieties which in such constant profusion are 
brought forward every year it seems difficult to ascertain. No English 
amateur ever dreams of buying one, and nurserymen have long since given 
up the unprofitable game of buying a lot of new Eoses of high-sounding 
descriptions and propagating them freely, only to throw them away, and 
hence I cannot think there can be much of a market for their wares 
amongst ns ; nor do I think that America can fill up the gap caused by 
the greater caution of our English Eose growers, for as well as I can 
gather from notices which have appeared from gardening journals, the 
culture there of Eoses is mostly under glass and is confined to a few 
leading varieties, and in such a system there would not be much opening 
for novelties ; and yet, notwithstanding the very small per-centage of 
new Eoses that remains permanently with us, “ the cry is, Still they 
come.” 
I have before me now through the courtesy of Messrs. Paul & Son a 
catalogue of the new Eoses to be sent out during the present season ; it 
is issued by Messrs. Soupert & Netting of Luxembourg, and the list 
amounts to no less than eighty-one flowers I Of these more than one- 
half are Teas—namely, forty-three, eight Hybrid Teas, seventeen Hybrid 
Perpetuals, sixty-eight in all; the remaining thirteen are made up of 
miscellaneous Eoses, such as Polyantha, China, Noisette, and Eugosa, so 
that again as of late years the Tea section is the predominant partner. 
In looking over the list two things strike me : first, that the names 
of some of our most celebrated raisers are absent. Death and other causes 
have thinned their ranks, and in vain we look for the names of 
Lacharme, Margottin, Charles Verdier, Guillot, Ducher, and others 
to whom the Eose world owes so much, for their productions are 
to be found wherever the Eose is cultivated, and will make their 
names to be remembered even by those who have never seen them. 
We still find the names of other older raisers, such as L^vgque, Liabaudj 
and Nabonnand, but they have not given us such striking results 
as those I have already mentioned. Another fact is that there does not 
seem to have been any more common sense in naming the varieties than 
heretofore. Fancy, for instance, Grande Duchesse h^ritiere Anna Maria 
de Luxembourg ; what would an English gardener make of this ? We 
can only hope that it may not have such merit as to entitle it to be 
placed amongst our permanent Eoses. 
Another noticeable fact is that some of our British and American 
Eoses find a place in these catalogues. Thus we have amongst Teas 
William Paul & Son’s Duke of York; in Hybrid Teas, Mr. Geo. Prince’s 
Clara Watson ; in Hybrid Perpetuals, William Paul & Son’s Clio and 
Dickson & Son’s Marchioness of Downshire and Mrs. Sharman Crawford ; 
in Noisettes, Grey’s Alister Stella Grey and William Paul & Son’s Lorna 
Doone. The following are the Teas, with the descriptions given of them 
by the raisers :— 
ANDRf SiBOURG (Eenonl).—A large globular flower, very double, 
salmon rose colour, bare of petals, the yellow shading off to silvery white : 
very free flowering and sweet scented. 
Baronne Gaston Chandos (L^veque).—A very large full flower. 
the colour metallic coppery yellow, shaded with peach and orange in 
the centre, the reflex golden yellow, 
Chevalier Angelo Ferrario (Bernaix).—Very full, large flower, 
with large petals, firm footstalk, holding itself erect, purplish crimson 
red colour, lighted up with lighter carmine; a remarkable variety. 
Claire Godard (Godard).—Variety with long pointed buds, a 
large full flower opening well, a pretty pure white colour ; an abundant 
autumn variety. 
Comte Chandon (Soupert & Netting).—A large full flower of a 
yellow lake (?) colour, with a bright citron-yellow centre, one of the 
most charming of the race; a cross between Lutea Flora and Coquette 
de Lyon. 
Edouard von Lade (Soupert & Netting).—Very large full flower 
of a bright rose colour; in the centre ochre, the reverse of the petals 
clear satiny carmine red ; cross between Comte de Sembul and Socrates. 
E. Veyrat Hbrmanos (Bernaix).—A large full flower, with a very 
pretty bud, yellowish apricot colour with amaranth rose at the backs of 
the petals; very sweet. 
Fiametta Nabonnand, or Papa Gontier, with white flowers 
(Nabonnand).—This Eose comes with a grand flaming description, and 
the raiser thinks it suificient to excite our admiration to say that it is as 
good in form and fuller than Papa Gontier; but the colour of this 
variety, which he describes as satiny white slightly tinted with carmine 
rose. It is not a sport, but said to be a cross between Papa Gontier and 
Niphetos. 
Francis Dubreuil (Dubreuil).—This is said to be the finest red 
Tea Eose known, and is described as a full flower of a fine form, opening 
very readily, perhaps too much so ; of a crimson red colour, with the 
reverse of petals cerise, with a long egg-shaped bud of great beauty. 
Gloire de Puy d’Angou (Nabonnand).—A good nearly full climb¬ 
ing Eose of a carmine red colour, and golden in the centre, and very 
bright and clear. ^ 
Grande Duchesse heritiEee Anna Maria de Luxembourg 
(Soupert & Netting).—Large full flower, the outside petals large, the 
inside ones narrower ; clear Naples yellow shaded with red, peach red 
in centre ; the reverse of the petals, as well as the buds, which are long, 
are shining and s>:riped like “ Luciole.” Sweet and floriferous. Cross 
between Mar^chal Eobert and Eubens. 
Harry L.4Ing (Soupert & Netting).—A large full flower of a fine 
form, clear orange-red colour, rosy in the centre, carnation red on the 
reverse of the petals; cross between Earl of Eldon and La Florif^re. 
Louis LeVeQUE (L^veque).— A very large full flower, very well 
made, with a very long bud of a reddish brick yellow colour, shaded 
with yellow and golden vermilion. 
Louis Neyret (Eeboul).—Of a dwarf habit, with a large full 
flower of good shape, the colour of a China Eose, shaded to yellowy 
orange at the base, the outside of the petals with broad margins of 
white. 
Madame Charles Franchet (Liabaud).—Large full globular 
shaped flower of a clear rose colour, shaded with yellow ; the petals with 
broad edges of bright rose colour (a rather new colour). 
Madame Emilie Charrin (Perrier).—A long bud, the flower 
medium in size and full, opening well; large thick petals, of a fine 
China Eose colour, shading to a brilliant scarlet; very free flowering. 
Madame Georges Bouland (L6veque).—A large full flower, very 
well made, with a handsome bud; a fine brilliant sulphur yellow colour, 
very lightly shaded with orange-yellow red. 
Madame Georges Durrschmitt (Pelletier). — An enormous 
flower, nearly 7 inches across, a globular shape ; many and large petals, 
bright China Eose colour ; the reverse of petals scarlet, shaded to clear 
cerise in the centre ; very sweet; cross between Christine de Noud and 
Madame Falcot. 
Madame Heloise Mantin (Ldveque).—A very large full flower, 
of a magnificent shape ; a bright citron yellow colour, darker in the 
centre, and sometimes shaded with peach rose ; a very effective variety. 
Madame Jean Andre (Pelletier).— A large full imbricated flower, 
with a long bud, of a dark red colour, sometimes striped with bright 
rose ; cross between Van Houtte and Madame de Tarius. 
Madame Jules Siegfried (Nabonnand).—Large, full cup-shaped 
flower, with a long bud of a creamy white colour shaded with flesh 
colour, darker in the centre ; a good climbing Eose ; cross between 
Eeve d’Or and Baronne Henriette de Loew. 
Madame Muison (Bernaix).—A large full flower, with the guard 
petals large clear yellow shaded with salmon yellow, with back of petals 
coppery yellow ; very sweet. A remarkably new colour. 
Madame Laurent Simons (LdvSque).—A very large full flower, 
of a coppery rose colour shaded with red, and tinted with scarlet red. 
Madame Eozain-Boucharlat (Liabaud).—A large convex-shaped 
flower, of a pale yellow tinted with rose colour. 
Madame Thirion (Puyravard).—A large flower, white at base, 
centre dark rose, with the edge of petals silvery white, and shaded with 
rose on the reverse of petals; seedling from Madame de Chatry. 
Madame Wagram Comtesse de Turenne (Bernaix).—A large 
flower with very large buds and of a beautiful shape, and a satiny 
rose colour and still brighter red when full blown. 
Madame Denise de Eeservau (Lev^que).—A large full flower 
of good shape, of a beautiful white, slightly tinted with yellow colour 
and shaded bright ochre. 
Mdlle. Francoise de Kerjegu (LevSque). — A large full 
flower, white, but tinted slightly with rose, the centre sometimes 
peach-red, very light, and yellow at the base. It has a delicious 
perfume of Violets. 
