May 21, 1887 
THE GAKDENING WORLD 
601 
A ROSE NURSERY AT BATH. 
That Bath, the beautiful city of the west, nestling 
in the valley of the Avon, almost within a great natural 
amphitheatre of hills which nearly surrounds it—that 
this delightful part of the country should be one 
of the homes of the Rose, is not to be wondered at. 
Here lives Mr. S. P. Budd, an amateur Rose grower of 
considerable renown, almost invincible in his own 
district, who can show fine Roses in May from plants 
under glass, and, from the end of June onwards, from 
a rare Rose garden at Swainswick. Here, too, are the 
nurseries of Messrs. George Cooling & Sons, who are 
noted Rose culti¬ 
vators and exhi¬ 
bitors in the West 
of England, and 
who deal largely 
in Roses, especi¬ 
ally of the choicer 
varieties grown in 
pots. In walking 
through their 
Batheaston Nur¬ 
series, the visitor 
sees house after 
house of young 
Roses in pots, all 
worked on the 
seedling brier. 
The stocks are all 
potted up ten 
months or so be¬ 
fore the grafts are 
put upon them, 
in order to become 
well established ; 
and they are 
plunged in soil- 
beds up to their 
rims in the open 
until they are 
wanted. Here are 
to be seen large 
batches of young 
Roses worked in 
January, and now 
having strong 
shoots 2 ft. or so 
in length. 
I made a note 
of a few free- 
growing and dis¬ 
tinct Roses that 
are becoming very 
popular: Niphe- 
tos, always a fa¬ 
vourite ; Tea W. 
F. Bennett, with 
a colour similar to 
General Jacque¬ 
minot, and in all 
probability the 
finest red Rose for 
winter blooming 
yet introduced ; 
N. Marechal Niel; 
Tea William 
Allen Richardson, 
largely used as a 
climber for plant¬ 
ing out; H. P. 
Her Majesty, a 
very stronggro wer 
and largely grown 
in this way (it is 
said this fine va¬ 
riety is very subject to mildew in the United 
States) ; Tea Madame Lombard, one of the very 
finest of Tea Roses; Tea The Bride, a charming 
white sport from Catherine Mermet ; H.P. Clara 
Clochet, pale rose, charming in colour ; H.P. American 
Beauty, very large, deep rose, exquisitely scented, a 
delightful pot-Rose ; Duke of Connaught, deep velvety 
crimson ; Perle d’Or, a pretty Polyantha Rose, having 
deep Apricot-coloured flowers, charming in the bud state; 
Comtesse de Frignewses, Comtesse Horace de Choiseul, 
Luciole (new of 1887), Madame Chauvry (new of 1887), 
Madame Etienne (new of 1887), Marquis de Yivens, 
Mons, Claude Levet, Vicomtesse Folkestone and Ye 
Primrose Dame, among the Tea-scented ; also such 
new and scarce H. P’s. as Ali Pacha Cherif (new of 
1887), Brilliant, Charles Dickens, Florence Paul, 
Longfellow, Inigo Jones, Madame Bois (new of 1887), 
Madame Ville, Madame Norman Neruda, Princess 
Amedec de Broglie, Souvenir de Victor Hugo, Madame 
Edouard Michel (new of 1887), Mons. Mat. Baron (new 
of 1887), and Vicomtesse de Terves (new of 1887). 
. The single Roses are becoming much in demand, and 
Mr. Cooling stated that it was difficult to get too many 
of them. Rugosa and Rugosa alba are much liked, 
not only on account of their producing such bold and 
showy flowers, but also because of their rich coral-red 
berries, so striking in winter ; also the yellow Ber¬ 
ber idi folia Hardii, the large single white Macartney 
simplex, the pretty white Polyantha, Paul’s Single 
Crimson and Single White, both of which are perpetual 
flowerers, and the yellow Austrian Brier. 
The young Roses at the Batheaston Nursery are all 
in pots—a kind of improved “ Long Tom,” 4^ ins. in 
width, and scarcely wider at the top than at the 
bottom. These are made in Bath especially for the 
firm, and they are found to economise packing, as so 
many of these pots will go into an ordinary round 
basket ; and it is found convenient to have the baskets 
made of such size as will take a certain number of pots ; 
this also greatly facilitates the work of packing. 
Cleanliness and vigour characterises all the plants. 
At this time of the year there is a great demand for 
Roses for pillars. Well-established plants in pots put 
out now soon make a vigorous growth and get into 
bloom. It is now becoming the practice to plant Roses 
for pillars instead of the time-honoured scarlet zonal 
Pelargonium. The best plants for this purpose are 
those which are placed in 32-sized pots, then grown 
on all the summer in a cold frame ; by the following 
spring they will have made very fine examples. 
The visitor to 
the Batheaston 
Nursery should 
not fail to inspect 
the Marechal Niel 
house. It is of 
considerable size 
-—probably an old 
orchard house— 
the plants being 
all in the ground, 
and having grown 
up and covered 
the interior of the 
roof. Large quan¬ 
tities of very fine 
blooms are had 
here, as some arti¬ 
ficial heat can be 
put on when re¬ 
quired. I think 
Mr. Cooling 
colours Marechal 
Niel as well as 
anyone I know. 
The management 
of this house is 
very simple. The 
branches are cut 
back hard after 
flowering, by 
doing which a 
vigorous growth 
is certain to result. 
Air is freely given 
during the sum¬ 
mer, the house 
being thoroughly 
ventilated. Here 
also is Reiue Marie 
Henriette, a grand 
house Rose, which 
is treated in just 
the same way as 
Marechal Niel, 
and may be termed 
a coloured Niel. 
All the plants are 
on the seedling 
brier, and some of 
last year’s shoots 
are fully £ in. in 
diameter. One 
house—a lean-to 
— has Roses 
planted out at the 
back for flower- 
buds in spring. 
The sorts grown 
for this purpose 
are Niphetos, 
Madame Falcot, 
Madame Lam- 
bard, Reine Marie 
Henriette, Marechal Niel, and Safrano. These are 
varieties that produce quantities of bloom and charm¬ 
ing buds. 
While Roses are a leading feature, it may be 
remarked that a general stock can be found in the 
Batheaston Nurseries. There are Orchids, stove and 
greenhouse plants ; a house, a portion of which has 
Eucharis amazoniea planted out, and three crops of 
flowers are had each year; Ferns, &c., and bedding 
plants in large quantities ; in fact, so many repre¬ 
sentatives are here, that bedding out at Bath must 
still be followed to a very large extent. 
Clematises are largely propagated, and in good 
