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July 30 1885. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
tasted between five and six dozen of them—an unenviable duty 
—and only very few were good, the majority ranging from mo¬ 
derate to bad. That same season an American Melon grower 
was in England—a grower of tons of fruit. He purchased 
several, with the object of finding some superior variety and 
saving the seed, but without avail: and the only fruit that he 
considered really good, and the seed from it worth taking home, 
was grown at Longleat on what may be termed the Cucumber 
system—that is, supplying the plants with all the water that 
was requisite for keeping them growing throughout the whole 
process of ripening the crops. 
Overcropping is fatal to high flavour. If the plants cease 
growing before the fruits attain half the size they should do, 
it is practically impossible to retain the foliage, and in that 
event it is hopeless to expect high-class fruit. The crops 
should be so regulated that the plants can do something more 
than support it—namely, make at least some fresh growth ; 
then if the leaves are fully exposed to the sun, not over¬ 
crowded nor injured, and the roots are “kept moving,” first- 
class Melons may be relied on if the variety is good. There 
is yet time to avert the collapse of the foliage of many plants, 
and consequently to improve the fruits they are bearing; 
hence these notes by—A Judge. 
SOME NEW EOSES. 
Now that the Rose shows are nearly over the question 
begins to be asked, Are there any new Roses worth having? 
and the following notes made during the recent flowering season 
may he relied on, at least as having been made from growing 
plants that I have flowered. Perhaps the simplest plan will be 
to begin with the most recent introductions, and start with the 
most widely known, V the yellow Hybrid Perpetual.” 
Gloire Lyonnaise (Guillot).—This Rose is of considerable 
horticultural interest, as being the first Hybrid Tea which, with 
a habit of growth that would suggest its being classed as a. 
Hybrid Perpetual, still retains in its flowers the yellow colour of 
a Tea Rose. The colour may be more exactly described as white 
shaded with sulphur. Both habit of growth and form of flower 
are of the Captain Christy type; wood very close-jointed, 
flowers solitary. It is a good grower and free-flowering, and 
even if hardly large enough for exhibition, will probably make 
a very pretty bedding Rose. 
Souvenir de Gabrielle Drevet (Guillot), is a Tea Rose 
which promises to be a very distinct addition. The plant, of 
sturdy upright habit, produces a deep-petalled flower, of good 
size, in colour something between Grace Darling and Madame de 
Watteville, having a whitish petal shading to coppery yellow at 
the base and tinted with rose at the margin. 
Mrs. Caroline Swailes (Swailes).—A sport from Eugenie 
Yerdier of a very delicate shade of flesh-tinted rose, appears 
very free-flowering and invaluble for cut flower work. 
Of the Roses distributed in England in the spring of 1884, 
taking them in alphabetical order— 
Alphonse Soupert (Lacharme), is an H.P. which has 
already proved itself a fine exhibition Rose. The plant is 
vigorous and truly perpetual, its large deep-petalled flowers of 
a bright rose colour being very freely produced both in summer 
and autumn. 
Antoine Mermet (Guillot), is yet another red Hybrid Tea 
of no very distinctive character. 
Benoit Comte (Schwartz), seems a good vigorous red H.P. 
of the type of Alfred Co'.omb, but distinct in colour. 
Colonel Eelix Breton (Schwartz), is another promising 
dark H.P. 
Eclair (Lacharme), promises to be a fine and distinct 
addition to the dark H.P.’s, having a deep built-up flower 
large, and of a most brilliant fiery crimson colour shaded 
darker; in fact, a well-shaped Due de Montpensier. 
Ella Gordon (Wm. Paul), is a pure crimson lake self- 
coloured H.P., becoming cherry colour on fully expanding; of 
good habit and promising. 
Etendard de Jeanne d’Arc (J. Margottin fils), is a pure 
white Tea of the Gloire de Dijon race, but without the rambling 
habit of its parent; rather rough and coarse in early summer, 
but better in autumn, as with Souvenir de la Malmaison. In 
fact the plants of this Tea now in full bloom look, at a distance, 
very like Souvenir de la Malmaison without the blush tint, 
offering an additional indication perhaps of the Bourbon origin 
of Gloire de Dijon. 
Grace Darling (Bennett).—'Whether regarded as a pure 
Tea (as which it was sent out), or whether eventually classed as 
the Hybrid Tea that some have asserted it to be, this Hose 1S 
sure to become popular; it is among the first to begin flowering 
and the last to leave off, of vigorous handsome habit, with full- 
sized highly finished flowers really distinct in colour, the petals 
shading to coppery yellow at the base and rose colour at t e 
margin. It has qualities that will make it appreciated by eveiv 
class of Rose-growers. „ , 
Joseph Metral (Liabaud), is a very good flat H.r. to 
avoid. 
Lady of the Lake (Wm. Paul), is a flower ot a very 
pleasing peach colour, but the plant though exceedingly vigoious 
is unfortunately not perpetual flowering. . 
Louise Chretien (Liabaud), is a circular cupped H.P. ot a 
bright rose colour and of good habit. , 
Madame de Watteville (Guillot), is a beautiful and 
distinct Tea of vigorous erect habit, and very free flowering. 
The blooms are of good size, with pointed centre, white, margined 
and washed with delicate rose colour. A real acquisition. 
Marshall P. Wilder (Ellwanger & Barry), is a bright 
red H.P. of the Alfred Colomb type, which, if distinct, will 
prove a valuable addition. The flower is large and very brig , 
the habit vigorous, and the variety i3 really perpetual flowering. 
Mary Bennett (Bennett), is a very beautifully finiblied 
rose-coloured H.P., with splendid petal of great substance, ot 
rather dwarf habit, but quite distinct, and of a pure shade ot 
colour that is wanted. . „ „ 
Mrs. George Dickson (Bennett\ is a very vigorous H.P. 
of a distinct and pleasiDg shade of pale rose, which successfully 
resists mildew, but my plants were cut by spring frosts and 
many of the first blooms spoilt, while the second blooms are not 
yet expanded, so that l have not yet grown flowers of this vanety 
so fine as I have seen of it elsewhere. 
Perle d’Or (Dubreuil), is a very pretty coppery-yellow 
Polyantha, ever-flowering and most useful for bouquets, and 
with “Mignonette ’ and “ Ma Paquerette ” makes a charming 
trio for the garden. 
President Senelar (Schwartz), is a dark H.P., very pretty 
in the bud, in which state, being free-flowering, it is very good 
for bouquets, but it is hardly large enough for exhibition, and 
also has a tendency to open flat. 
Prosper Laugier (E. Yerdier), has, so far, been one of the 
best H.P.’s of the year, being of vigorous habit, with handsome 
foliage, and having large flowers of bright deep maroon colour 
without shading. 
Secretaire Nicholas (Schwartz), is a fairly good dark 
H.P. with purple shading, of good size and form. 
Sunset (Henderson, New York), is a Tea Rose whose praises 
have been much sung. At any rate it is most free-flowering, 
every growth bringing bloom, while the colour is a pleasing 
shade of deep tawny yellow. The buds have been charming, but 
here the expanded flowers have not been quite so satisfactory. 
That, however, is probably owing to my want of skill, and I kop® 
next year to find this sport from Perle desJardins established 
in the front rank of Teas, as the Rose has evidently plenty ot 
substance. 
Although not quite apropos of a new Rose, I cannot help 
expressing surprise at the strictures passed by Mr. J. Muir of 
Margam upon A. K. Williams. Here it has this year been the 
most dependable and perfect of all the red Roses, upwards of 
thirty blooms having been staged in winning stands, and from 
the constant and unfailing service that this variety always 
renders me all through the season, I should not have the least 
hesitation in selecting it as the best and most beautiful of the 
red Roses. At the same time it cannot reasonably be expected 
that Roses of the imbricated type should stand so well after a 
journey in a baking summer like the present as in cooler seasons, 
since the great heat causes the outer petals to recurve, the 
flower thereby losing size as well as texture.—T. W. Girdle- 
stone. 
LILIES AMONGST ROSES. 
Fobm and colour are charmingly contrasted when the stately stems o£ 
Lilium candidum rise amongst the glowing colours exhibited by the 
standard Roses. Then the flower and plant of light stands like a pure 
sentinel hes-ide the celestial rosy red of the rival queen, both are peerless. 
Lilium candidum delights in rich soil, and profits by the liberal support 
accorded to the Rose, which it does not appear to shade or injure in the 
least. Slugs and t nails feed greedily on Lily leaves, and must be searched 
for and destroyed in early spring and summer. 
I wish I had seen sooner your correspondent’s information, on page 75 
of the current number, about the removal of the anthers. I had noticed 
a Lily sold in London without anthers, and certainly for transit such a 
