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especially wlien we consider their mueh more rapid increase in the 
warmer and closer atmosphere of the cutting frame.—J. H. E. 
ROSE SHOWS IN 18S8. 
June 2Sth. —Brockham and Ryde. 
June 30th.—Eltham and Reigate. 
July 3rd.—Bagshot, Canterbury, Diss, and Hereford. 
„ Ith.—Croydon, Hitchin and Richmond. 
„ 5th.—Bath, Farningham, and Norwich. 
„ 6th.—Sutton. 
„ 7th.—Crystal Palace (National Rose Society). 
„ 10th.—Ipswich. 
„ 11th.—Ealing and Tunbridge Wells. 
„ 12th.—Winchester. 
„ 14th.—New Brighton. 
„ 17th.—Leek and Ulverstone. 
„ 18th.—Birkenhead. 
„ 19 th.—Helensburgh. 
„ 20th.—Darlington (National Rose Society). 
„ 21st.—Manchester. 
There are still a few fixtures whieh I shall be glad to have, and 
which I hope will reach me in time for insertion in my next list, which 
will appear early next month.—E dwaed Mawley, R.osehanlt, Berli- 
haimtcd, Ilcrt-i. 
THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE ROSE SOCIETY. 
A LAEGE and influential meeting of ladies and gentlemen of the city 
and county was held at Gloucester on Saturday, the 17th inst., for the 
purpose of starting a Rose Society for the county, the result of tho^ meet¬ 
ing being the formation of the above Soeiety, which promises to Le ex¬ 
ceedingly well supported. Mrs. Gambler Parry of Highnam Court, 
Gloucester, was unanimously elected President, and several ladies and 
gentlemen of the city and county consented to act as patrons and 
patronesses. An influential Committee was appointed, and the Rev. T. 
Holbron, Sandhurst Vicarage, Gloucester, and the Rev. F. R. Burnside, 
Chipping Campden, were elected Hon. Secretaries. Mr. Hatherley, 
manager of the National Provincial Bank, Gloucester, was appointed 
Treasurer. The first Show of this new Society will be held in the Corn 
Exchange, Gloueester (a room admirably suited in every way for a Rose 
show) on Thursday, July 12th. The Committee hope to be able to 
frame a liberal schedule, which will be issued by the end of April or 
the beginning of May. 
SOLUTION FOR PREVENTING MILDEW ON ROSES. 
“A. B., Ayrshire," should dissolve half a pound of softsoap in a gallon 
of hot water, then add half a pound of flowers of sulphur, which must 
be thoroughly mixed previous to adding the petroleum, about 8 ozs. 
of which will be sufficient. He will then have a mixture sufficient to 
use with ten or twelve gallons of water, and if used in a tepid state all 
the better. The above will he sufficient to syringe a good sized Rose 
house with. 
MARECH.4L NIEL ROSE. 
Youe correspondent, “ N.,” does not admit my plants of the above 
are forced, at any r.ate they are assisted. I cut the first flowers on 
February 19th, and have cut several since. I have three plants of 
Martichal Niel in an unheated house, and they are only just commencing 
growth. I have had no mildew on those plants referred to last week” 
hut 1 freely admit I have h.ad plenty of trouble with it on other- 
varieties ; but by the use of the mixture referred to in the preceding 
note I am able to keep it well in check.—W. W., East Yarhs. 
MY ROSES IN 1887. 
I HAVE already (some months ago) given in the Journal my view of 
the Rose season as regarded its general aspect, and shall, as far as possible, 
avoid all generalising, and refer only to my own garden. But what a 
season it was ! how porjrlexing and worrying to ali owners of a garden 
the long spell of cold weather, in which everything seemed to stand 
still! and then the long-continued drought, when day after day blazing 
sun, drying winds, and dewless nights added to their difficulties, and 
when watering was the principal work to be thought of and done. With 
many, however, this was an impossibility ; gardens had to go without, 
for there was little enough for domestic uses. Happily I am not on a 
“ dry and thirsty land.” We are on the chalk formation, and have an 
abundance of springs about us in all directions. This advantage, how¬ 
ever, 1 think, somewhat interferes with the earliness of my garden. My 
position is sheltered and well exposed to the sun, but yet we are alwavs 
late here. 1 believe this is to be accounted for solely by the low tem¬ 
perature of the soil, occasionally as I imagine by the number of our 
springs ; but at any rate, during such a season as the last, “we have 
the pull ” over those who are earlier but drier. 
I h.ave m.ade no alteration in the kinds of Roses I cultivate, I mean 
as to stocks. Much has been said and written about standards, notably 
by Mr. George Paul in the “ Rosarians’ Year Book,” while in a con¬ 
temporary I SCO a weU'-known writer, “ D. T. F.,” writing on the 
“ Return of the Standards.” This is a consummation most devoutly 
not to be desired. I do not believe in the superiority of the blooms to 
be had as maidens from these, for I believe that equally good can be 
obtained from the seedling Briar ; and one must never forget that one 
who, considering the quantity of plants that he grew was, I consider, 
our chief amateur gi-owcr in past days, always grew his Roses on the 
Manetti, .md always exhibited from cut-backs, I mean Mr. R. N. G. Baker 
of Exeter. Sometimes it is said the staying power of Roses thus grown 
is gre.ater, but have we not the authority of “ D. T. F.” himself that 
the box of Roses which he exhibited at Norwich were of such surpassing 
beauty as to excite his wonder and admiration, even after their long 
journey from Exeter across London to Norwich i Moreover, those who 
arc weak enough to think of reinstating standards must be prepared for 
a collapse when the first severe frost comes. I shall never forget the 
splendid piece of standard Roses which 1 saw with old Margottin at 
Bourg la Reine, or the pride with which Jules showed them to us, and 
yet not one of them ever came to the market—they were all cut off by 
frost. There are a few cases in which standard Roses may be tolerated, 
but only a few. I have seen scores of weeping Roses, and a few will 
not be out of place in the back row of a Rose border ; but I have no 
hesitation in sa 3 'ing that, whether for beauty or utilitj', the less the 
general amateur has to do with them the better. 
As far as my own garden was concerned the season for the Hybrid 
Perpetuals was a short but a merry one. My beds were a blaze of 
colour and beautj' for about ten days, and then all was over ; but not so 
with the Teas for a mouth. Although I have, comparatively speaking, 
few plants, I had a succession of lovely blooms, those on the wall first 
giving me their blooms, and then those in the beds. The hot weather 
did not seem to improve them, and although the autumn was cold and 
cheerless, yet I had a succession of good blooms. 1 may say, too, that 
preceding all these my Mariichal Niel, still nominally in a pot, gave me 
about 350 blooms, not of large size or deep colouring, but still very pretty 
useful blooms. I see as j'ct no signs of canker, but am hopeful it may 
continue for a little while longer. The difficulty is to give it space to 
grow, and as I cannot permit it to fill up the house a quantity will have 
to be cut out. I have mad(? some little alteration on my wall, having 
taken away a plant of Perle de Ijyon, which rarelj' opened its bloom, 
and have placed in its stead one of a pretty and comparatively unknown 
Rose which I saw with Mr. George Bunyard at his celebrated nurseries 
at Maidstone, Claire Carnot. It somewhat reminds one of Celine 
Forestier, is of the same lovely yellow colour, but a better Rose ; it is 
like it, too, as a Noisette of good habit. 1 have another Tea, Madame 
Jules Margottin, which is not satisfactorjq and this I have also dis¬ 
placed and put in its stead another Rose which Mr. Bunyard highly 
recommended, Emilie Dupuy ; it is of the Gloire de Dijon race, but he 
describes it as very good, and a bloom I saw of it made me think it 
would be an acquisition. I have also a strong inclination to disestablish 
Belle Lyonnaise ; true it grows well and flo’ivers freely, but the flowers 
are very apt to come split and quartered, and I think one may dispense 
with such Roses nowadays. I have also added some new ones to my 
small lot—Earl of Dufierin, Lady Helen Stewart, Miss Ethel Brownlow, 
Sir Rowland Hill, Duchess of Ijccds, Princess Beatrice, Victor Hugo, 
Madame Joseph Desbois, Madame Desire-, Raoul Galliard, and also two 
Roses, one of which I never saw or heard of till I saw it in Messrs. 
Cooling’s of Bath, and of its origin, where raised, or by whom sent out 
the eatalogues reveal nothing—Countess of Limerick : it is a perfectly 
shaped Tea Rose, white, with a faint tinge of pink. The other is Lau- 
rette. This I have known for years ; it was always exhibited by Capt. 
Knight and Mr. W. H. IVakeley at our East Kent shows, but I never 
saw it anj'where else till 1 found it also with Messrs. Cooling’s. I do 
not know when or by whom it was sent out, but it is a very pretty Rose, 
white, with faint pink edging, somewhat of what may be called a re¬ 
fined Homere. Of these Roses I shall have, if spared, to report by-and- 
by. I have during the past 3 'ear added another bed of Teas, a small 
one, for they arc so ver_y satisfactory and bloom on to so late a period 
that one can hardly have too many. So thinks my friend Mr. Alex. 
Hill Gray, but wo cannot .all build “ fortifications ” as he has done. I 
do not, however, think that those Rose growers are wise who talk of 
discarding nearly .all their H.P. and substituting Te.as. This is running 
into extremes. We cannot do without the brilliant colouring of the 
H.P.’s, however much we maj' admire the refined delicacy of the Teas. 
Who grows the Austrian Yellow single Briar? One of the most 
beautiful sights in ti e way of Rose trees was a bush of this in a 
cottage .garden in my parish, a shower of lovely gold-coloured blossoms, 
and yet wanting to get it for my o\vn garden I had some difficulty 
in finding it. The xVustrian Copper 1 could get, but not ihe Yellow. 
At last I found it, and T hope that I have got it true. Of other single 
Roses what 1 have not bloomed before were Paul’s Single White and 
Single Crimson. 1 have planted these for a pillar, and think the White 
exceedingly pretty and well suited for this purpose. 1 do not think .so 
well of the Crimson. 
Of the Pelj-antha Roses we have to note a ver}- pleasing addition in 
Perle d’Or and Mignonette : they are useful both in the garden and as 
pot Roses. Some of the latter exhibited by Messrs. I’aul &; Son last 
j'ear in pots were greatly admired. The former is an exceedingly 
pretty little Rose, nankeen yellow, with orange centre, not unlike the 
colouring of William Allen Richardson when well coloured ; it is very 
dwarf and interesting. One would hardly have expected that a cross of 
Tea blood with the ramp nit single-flowered Japanese Ro.se would have 
