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THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
February 22 , 1913 . 
more sparingly, aiid require a costly and 
troubleM>me system of management, 'llie ex¬ 
hibitor it* tolerably safe in picking his 
varieties from the stands at the exhibitions, 
as the grower of pot roses only will attain 
his object by selecting from pot plants; but 
the grower for all ordinary purposes of de. 
(•oration will assuredly do better if he chose 
his kinds from under his eye in the open 
ground. Whether forming a new collection 
or adding to an old one, it is a good invest¬ 
ment of both time and money to make a visit 
of inspection to the grounds of some one or 
more of the principal rose growers when 
the roses are in full bloom.*’ 
In turning to the last year’s edition of 
the catalogue of the National Rose Society, 
it is tound that of the Waltham Cross roses 
seventeen have a place in the selected list, 
riiecic comprise Ueauty of Waltham and 
Pride of Waltham, two excellent hybrid per- 
petuals, the first distributed in 1861, and the 
second in 1881; Fairy Queen, Hugo Roller, 
Medea, Morning Clow, and Sulphurea, five 
beautiful free-tlowering tea-scented varieties; 
Beatrice, Earl of W arwick, Margaret, Walt¬ 
ham Climber No. 3, and Warrior, four hybrid 
teas of much value for the garden ; W’altham 
Rambler, a charming multiflora, with rose- 
pink flowers; and last, but by no means the 
least, the wondrous hybrid briar, Juliet, 
which, by its distinct and effective colour 
and rich fragrance, startled rose lovers when 
it first made its appearance in public, and 
has continued to enjoy the popularity to 
which it attained on becoming known. 
'I’lie four new roses distributed last year 
fully maintained the high standard charac¬ 
teristic of the firm’s productions, and have 
already taken a prominent position in the 
ostimation of rosarians and in their gardens 
also. Three of these are hybrid teas, two 
being of much value for forcing, and one is 
of great merit for exhibition, while all three 
are excellent roses for the garden. Taking 
them in alphabetical order, Mrs, Charles 
Hunter is a beautiful variety, with bold, 
finely-formed flowers of a brilliant rose-red 
colour when fully developed; the petals being 
large and handsome, and the stems long 
and carry the blooms erect. It is an excellent 
rose for pot culture under glass, and for the 
supply of cut flowers grown in the open. 
Nerissa lias large flowers of superb form, 
the colour being cream-yellow, shaded with 
white at the margins of the petals and suf¬ 
fused ^ach colour in the centre; it should 
be highly popular for the distinct shade of 
colour it affords. In the garden it is highly 
effective. Ophelia is remarkable for its 
byge. finely.formed flowers and the length 
of stem, ths latter characteristic greatly en¬ 
hancing Its merits for decorative purposes 
vigorous, and, like Mrs. 
Charles Hunter, it is admirably adapted for 
forcing. The fourth of the new roses of last 
year is a (iwarf polyantha, known as Coronet 
and espeoiallv deserving of notice for its disl 
tinctness. The flowers are borne in large 
trusses, and are yellow, suffused with ro^ 
and useful for decorative purposes in a cut 
state. The variety is also very effective in 
the garden. 
Prominent among the roses that were in¬ 
troduced by Messrs. W. Paul and Son in 
1911, are Florence Haswell Veitch and 
Frances Charteris Seton, two superb addi¬ 
tions to the hybrid teas. The first-named 
has so vigorous a ^rowh as to give it a 
first place amongst pillar and wall roses, and 
to render it suitable for culture in bush 
form. The flowers are of large size, mode¬ 
rately full, and rich scarlet, shaded with 
black. They have also the merit of being de- 
lightfully fragrant and produced freely and 
continuously. The second is remarkable for 
the large size, superb form, and the sweet 
perfume of its flowers. The colour is an 
effective shade of rose-red. Lady Downe, 
which also belongs to the year 1911, is re¬ 
garded with much favour by those who ap¬ 
preciate buff-yellow roses, and deservedly so. 
TTie flowers are large, of excellent form, and 
bo^e on long, erect stalks. The colour is 
buff, rich yellow in the centre in the earlier 
stages of development, passing to pale yel¬ 
low. It is a useful rose for both the garden 
and forcing. 
The beautiful rose Bianca, of which an 
illustration is given herewith, is a notable 
addition to the list of hybrid teas. It is one 
of the many fine varieties raised by the 
firm, and will be distributed early in July 
next. The well-formed flowers are cream- 
white, tinted peach colour, and the buds are 
long and pointed. As a bedding and deco¬ 
rative rose it should attain a high degree 
of popularity, for it is vigorous in growth, 
free and continuous in flowering, and a good 
forcing variety. 
Camellias. 
For a long series of years camellias have 
constituted a great and highly interesting 
feature at Waltham Cross, and they have 
lost none of their attractions to those who 
appreciate beautiful flowers, irrespective 
of the influence of those who are un¬ 
duly swayed by fashion. This out¬ 
standing feature is of exceptional interest 
from the fact that when camellias were 
banished from the majority of trade estab¬ 
lishments and private gardens, Messrs. W. 
Paul and Son strengthened rather than re¬ 
duced their collection, and the huge 
span-roof structure in which it is housed 
has annually been a source of delight 
to those who retained their appre¬ 
ciation of these beautiful shrubs. For 
a time the demand for camellias was un¬ 
questionably small, but it never died out, and 
for some jears past there has been a distinct 
revival. The demand, however, has not been 
so gi-^t for cultivation under glass as for 
planting in the open, but it is probable that 
they wQl be more in request for glass cul- 
tuTe when the beautiful semi-double and 
single varieties that have been introduced 
within recent years have become well-known. 
A goodly number of these have been raised 
from ^ed in the nurseries, while others have 
been introduced from Japan, and the varie¬ 
ties other than those with double flowers 
now form a large and attractive group. 
Chief among the semi-double and single 
varieties, of which note was made a few days 
since were Adelina Patti, a beautiful single 
variety, the flowers soft salmon-pink, with 
white edge to petals; Waltham Glory, a 
single variety, bearing scarlet flowers, and 
haying a fine habit; Apollo, semi-double, 
brilliant orange-scarlet, equal in effective¬ 
ness to Camellia reticulata, but a much 
better grower; Mars, semi-double, somewhat 
similar to the last-named, but the petals are 
a trifle reflexed; Vesta, single, scarlet, good; 
Juno, single, the flowers of medium size’, 
pure white, occasionally flaked with rose, and 
produced with great freedom, the habit is 
remarkablv good; Alba simplex, single, pure 
white, a charming variety; Minerva, single, 
bright rc^-pink, free in flowering, and with 
fine habit; Novelty, single, white, freely 
naked with rose; The Swan, single, the 
flowers white, with prominent clusters of 
cream-yellow anthers, and exquisitely beauti- 
tul the flower-buds are long, and the habit 
ot the plant good; Donckelaari, a well-known 
semi-double variety, with brilliant rose-red 
flowers, spotted and flaked with white, still 
occnpies a prominent position in its class, and 
A-ady Mackinnon is a distinct Japanese 
variety, with single flowers, the colour bright 
sc^let, occasionally blotched with white. 
Very attractive as usual were Lavinia 
Maggi, of the most beautiful of the 
double flaked flowers; Manera, a double 
variety, with finely-formed flowers of a rich 
distinct and effective; Gilesi, a 
flower, with anemone centre, and 
ery attractive; Augustina superba, a double 
flower of an exquisite shade of pink; and 
do^fhlo*M■'"erschaffelt. a beautiful 
markings 
Hollies. 
study because of the opportunities the? 
afford the planter for becoming acquainted 
with the habit of the leading kinds when 
full grown. As th© time for planting these 
shrubs is at hand, brief notes on a few of 
the best can hardly fail to be useful. Silver 
Queen was made note of as one of the best 
of those with silvery variegation, being fr^ 
in growth and bright in colour; Scotch Gold 
a free-growing form of fine habit, rich in 
colour, and thriving under divers condi- 
tions; Gold King, a variegated form of 
Hodgkin’s Holly, distinct, bright in colour 
and very handsome; Handsworth Silver a 
very fine holly, with silvery variegation 
ranking next to Silver Queen in merit-’ 
Aureum pictum, one of the best of the Milk, 
maid hollies, which are less desirable than 
many of the other forms; Hendersoni is a 
green-leaved form, remarkable for the free¬ 
dom with which it produces its berries even 
in unfavourable years; Myrtifolium is a 
charming small-leaved holly, useful for shrub 
bery borders of limited dimensions; Crenata' 
is another desirable green form, with small 
leaves and moderate in growth; Balearica is 
an excellent green-leaved holly for southern 
towns, but it is rather too tender for the 
north; Walthamensis is a very distinct gol¬ 
den holly of moderate stature, the leaves 
broadly margined with gold, and in some 
instances are wholly of a golden hue; for 
small shrubberies it is especially useful be¬ 
cause of its neatness and rich colouring. 
G. 
hollies is extensive, and 
th! y* specimens that flank 
of thp '"hole length 
of the nurseries, is especially deserving®^ 
NOTES FROM KEW. 
Forced Shrubs. 
As might be expected at this season the 
different hardy shrubs that have been 
forced prematurely into bloom form a pro¬ 
minent feature of the floral display in the 
greenhouse. The Temperate House, too, is 
greatly brightened by a judicious use of 
flowering shrubs, most of which, despite 
the forebodings over the weather experi¬ 
enced last summer, are blooming with un¬ 
wonted freedom. Pyrus floribunda, with 
its deeper-tinted variety atrosanguinea, as 
well as the allied Pyrus Scheideckeri, are 
unusually fine. 
Azaleas of the mollis section, too, are 
freely represented, those of a warm orange 
or terra-cotta tints being always admired. 
Apart from any other consideration, tli€ 
compact root system of this azalea enables 
it, when lifted in the autumn and carefully 
potted, to be gently forced without any 
risk. Pruniis triloba, one of the finest of 
a;l shrubs for forcing, is freely represented, 
the long slender shoots being w^reathed for 
some distance wuth pink rosette^like blos¬ 
soms. Of shrubby spiraeas the pretty white- 
flowered S. confusa or media is well-known, 
but two others not so generally employed 
may be seen at Kew. They are S. arguta, 
one of the earliest to flower in the open 
ground, and S. prunifolia flore plena, wh^ 
dark-coloured branches are wreath^ with 
small double pure white blossoms. The rich 
golden, rose-like flowers of Kerria japonic® 
flore plena impart quite a distinct tone of 
colour, as also do the pendulous racemes of 
Wistaria sinensis, which, from the manner 
in w'hich the flowers are borne, is seen to 
the best advantage when grown as a stan¬ 
dard. Of lilacs the variety Marie Legrange 
still holds its own as the best single white 
for forcing, while of the same tint the 
double Madame Lemoine is very fi^^- 
Whether in the open ground or under 
Charles IQth is a very desirable colour^ 
kind. In the cherry family, Cerasus J- 
Veitch, with its large pink-tinged blossoms, 
is very showy. 
Acacia hastulata. 
This greenhouse acacia, which is 
known as Acacia cxirdata, is a very distinc 
species, and withal well suited for growing 
in small pots. Its style of growth is some* 
