February 22,1894. 
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seldom seen or known—it is now ten or eleven years since I was 
acquainted with it, or what was supposed to be the true variety. It 
was an old standard growing on the Holme Lacy estate. The fruits 
were deeper than typical specimens of the Blenheim, not nearly so well 
coloured, only containing a few streaks on the sunny side, very even in 
outline, but rather rough to the feel. In texture it was softer. 
My opinion is that this variety, if not exactly lost to cultivation, is 
rarely met with. Cannot someone send specimens of the supposed true 
Cobham ? Too much care cannot be taken in awarding certificates to 
Apples.— A. Young. 
[Our correspondent gives a fair description of Cobham as well as of 
Standard Bearer. Both varieties mentioned were on the table, but the 
fruits of the former were not in the best condition. The varieties were 
not considered to be identical as judged by their fruits, and thus it was 
that some members of the Committee thought Mr. Iggulden and Mr. 
Young, as country members of the Fruit Committee, should see the trees 
at Cote House. Mr. Young pives his experience with the supposed 
Cobham, and Mr. Iggulden informs us he does not know the variety.] 
I have always found the origin or parentage of Eoses a fascinating 
theme ; and I know that its importance has not been under-estimated 
by such successful bybridisers as the late Mr. Bennett, Mr. William 
Paul of Waltham, Mr. George Paul of Cheshunt, and the Messrs. 
Dickson of Newtownwards, from most of whom the extraction of their 
most celebrated productions can always be obtained. I may add that 
when Roses are arranged in a garden, as they always are by me, according 
to their parentage, they derive from such arrangement an additional 
significance. If you wish, for instance, to prove that Augustine 
Guinoisseau is a white La France faintly suffused with delicate rose, 
grow them side by side, and it will be found that though the former is very 
widely differentin colourfrom the latter, their form and characteristics are 
precisely the same. If I had my own way, they would be described in 
the National Rose Society’s caralogue as Hybrid Cninas rather than as 
Hybrid Teas. I have frequently observed that Baroness Rothschild 
flowers at the same period as Merveille de Lyon, both being invariably 
and noticeably late when compared with other Hybrid Perpetuals of 
coming into bloom. On the other hand the 'oeautiful and exceedingly 
fragrant White Lady, a native of Waltham, is exactly contemporaneous 
with the bountiful, early flowering Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, from whom 
it was derived.— David R. Williamson. 
Farningham Rose and Horticultural Society. 
National Rose Society. 
At a meeting of the Committee, held February 13th last, the 
regulation relating to Synonymous Roses, and binding on all affiliated 
Socie ies, was altered to read as follows :— 
Regulation 6.—The following Roses which are bracketed together 
are considered synonymous, and must not be shown in the same stand. 
For instance. Grand Mogul must not be shown in the same stand as 
Jean Soupert;— 
We are requested to state that the annual Exhibition of the above 
Society will be held this year on Wednesday, the 27th June, at 
Farningham. 
Rose Growing Under Glass in America. 
In many places in America, according to Mr. G. Nicholson, who 
gives in the “Kew Bulletin” for the current month an interesting 
description of his visit to the United States, Roses are cultivated very 
extensively under glass for the supply of cut flowers during winter. 
The houses of the most approved pattern are three-quarter span, the 
short span having a steep pitch to catch as much light as possible in 
winter. Beds, with narrow walks between, are raised on wooden sup¬ 
ports, and in these, which are sometimes not more than 4 to 6 inches 
deep, are planted out in rows young plants which have been raised from 
carefully selected cuttings and established in small pots ; the distances 
vary according to the variety used, but on an average they are 9 or 10 
inches from plant to plant and 12 or 14 inches from row to row. Bone 
meal is often mixed with the soil, and as soon as the plants begin to grow 
freely the surface is mulched. 
As a rule the plants are grown but a single season and after that they 
are thrown away, the old soil being entirely removed and replaced by 
new in which young plants are again grown. Some growers try two or 
three varieties a second year, but this is not usual. The varieties most 
largely grown are the following—Pearl, Clothilde Soupert, Niphetos, 
Catherine Mermet, The Bride, Madame Hoste, Sunset, F, W. Bennett, 
and American Beauty, All these must be cut with long stems, a short¬ 
stemmed flower would not be accepted bv the flower sellers. In a very 
large Rose-growing establishment near Washington as many as 20,000 
Rose flowers have been cut in one day ; from this place they are for¬ 
warded by mail all over the United States, 
Gold Medal Roses and their Origin. 
I think the suggestion made in the Jotornal of Horticulture 
(pat e 130) by Mr. Charles J. Grabame regarding these Roses is an 
admirable one. I know it is recorded opposite their names in the 
catalogue of the National Rose Society that they are gold medallists of 
that Association ; but it is certainly advisable, as your correspondent 
suggests, that a page of the catalogue should in future be specially 
dedicated to the enumeration of those distinguished varieties, giving 
the names of their raisers, the date of their production and first exhibi¬ 
tion, and the respective places at which, when exhibited, they received 
the highest honour which the National Rose Society could bestuw. 
If a short description could also be given of the origin of these it 
would lend, I feel assured, additional value to the catalogue. It is, for 
example, of some interest to know that Margaret Dickson, one of the 
most distinguished of gold medal Roses, is a hybrid between Lady Mary 
Fitzwilliam and Merveille de Lyon, and if such a description were given 
in condensed language of Mr. Wm. Paul’s Salamander, the Messrs. 
Dickson’s Mrs. Grant and Marchioness of Londonderry, the 'ate 
Mr. Henry Bennett’s phenomenal Roses Her Majesty and Mrs. John 
Laing, and other medallists whose names need not here be recorded, it 
would doubtless have the effect of makimr much more attractive the 
otherwise sufficiently comprehensive publication of the National Rose 
Society to which I have referred. There are instances in which, of 
course, not much could be said. Mr. Turner’s remarkable Crimson 
Rambler, for example, is perhaps sufficiently described by saying that 
it is an exceptionally brilliant and floriterous climbing Rose of Japanese 
origin and Polyantha extraction ; it is, nevertheless, though we know 
but little of its origin, one of the most beautiful and valuable Roses at 
present in cultivation. 
Hybrid Pbrpetuals and Hybrid Te*s. 
( Alfred Oolomb 
< Marshall P. Wildtr 
(Wilhelm Koelle 
I Avocat Duvivier 
I Mar6chal Yaillant 
f Baron de Bonst^fcten 
I Monsieur Boncenne 
f Charles Lefebvre 
< Marguerite Brassac 
(Paul Jamaiu 
Comtesse de Choiseul 
Marie Rady 
Due de Rohan 
Mrs. Jowitt 
Duchesse de Caylus 
Penelope Mayo 
( Duke of Wellington 
( Rosieriste Jacobs 
( Eugdnie Verdier 
(Marie Finger 
Exposition de Brie 
Ferdinand de Lesseps 
Mauri ’e Bernardin 
Sir Garnet Woiseley 
Teas and Noisettes. 
( 
(Aina Rosea ( 
(Adam ' 
1 Josephine Malton ( 
(President 1 
1 Madame Bravy , 
[Madame de Sertot j 
Grand Mogul 
Jean Soupert 
La Ro.si6re 
Prince 0. de Rohan 
Lady Mary Fitzwilliam 
Lady Alice 
Madame A. Lavall6e 
Marie Baumann 
Chromatella 
Cloth of Gold 
Souvenir de S. A. Prince 
The Queen 
The climbing variety of any Rose cannot be shown in the same 
stand with it. For instance. Climbing Devoniensis cannot be shown in 
the same stand with Devoniensis. 
N.B.—In bracketing varieties together, foliage and habit of growth 
are not taken into consideration. By order, —H. Honywood D'Ombrain, 
Edward Mawley, Hun. Secretaries. 
IRON DOORS FOR GLASS STRUCTURES. 
1 NOTICE “ E. M’s” objection (page 109) to iron doois for our 
houses, or rather his illustration of what they might prove to be, by the 
expansion of the metal. I am glad to offer a few remarks in addition 
to some advanced by me before—viz., that in these matters, which are 
extraneous to the piofession of a gardener, yet deeply concern us, that 
we, best knowing what we want, should have a voice in the construc¬ 
tion and fitting up of those houses, which accordingly mean to us 
comfort or discomfort—aye, even success or failure. 
I am aware that voice must, from force of circumstances, be to some 
extent a weak one. We may have the ideas clear enough in our beads, 
but the channel of technical terms by which those ideas can be floated 
into other brains is to us a stream of difficulty. Carpenter, mason, 
bricklayer, or smith have each and all of them a technical vocabulary, 
which, so far as gardeners are concerned, might as well be Hebrew or 
ba skrit. 
I have generally found a prevailing idea in the tradesman’s mind 
that we want everything fitted so close—hermetically sealed up as it 
were. Where heat and moisture affect the materials, there is seldom in 
new work sufficient margin allowed for these contingencies. With 
either wood or iron sashbars the glazier, as a rule, fits his frames far too 
close, resulting in much cracked glass. New doors (wooden ones) are 
never allowed sufficient fieedom at first, because the better the trades¬ 
man, be he cirpenter or glazier, the closer he fits his work. 
Now, “ E. M ’’ will think I have gone a long way round to reach 
the iron doors, and now, having reached them, the difficulty of conveying 
my idea crops up, clearly pictured as the matter is in my mind’s eye, 
and having beeu there a good while I do not care to relinquish it. 
Should it ever be thought worthy of taking a practical form, I could 
better C'liivey I hose ideas by a sketch; and if the “ fiatrnt, imperish- 
aole, Erio-go-B agh greenhouse door ” should become un fait accompli, 
and if the head that holds it has anything to do with hatching it cut, 
I will dare promise that it will have none of the objections feared by 
“ E. M.”—E. K., Lublin. 
