THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
TWO NEW SINGLE ROSES. 
Among the score and one roses that 
cahi€d aiwards at the N.a.tional Rose So¬ 
ciety’s exhibition at Rogent’s Park on 
July “t, there were two which merited close 
attention from those who love garden roses, 
and make a feature of rose decorations 
in the home. One was Red Letter Day, 
a vivid velety-crimson, hybrid tea rose, 
almost single, but with a few extra and 
broad petals that give the blooms more 
from ^Messrs. Hugh Dickson, Lim., Belfast. 
Both varieties were fully described in our 
previous issue, and botli gained a Silver- 
gilt Medal fioni the N.R.S. 
QUERCUS DENTATA. 
This Japanese oak is remarkalble on ac¬ 
count of the large size of its foliage, for 
it is not unusual to find leaves a foot 
or thirteen inches long and eight inches 
of Japan,” sa}'s that he found it growing 
on high mountains in Central Hondo, bui 
tiliat it is more abundant towards the more 
northerly parts of the island, where it is 
found on dry, graveWy hillsides at a com- 
parativ^ely low eJevation. He gives an 
illustration of old trees growing in the 
vicinity <jf Sapporo, and these trees cer¬ 
tainly give one the impression that a 
mature specimen is much inferior in beauty 
to a moderately well-developed ooinmoii. 
oak. As a young tree, however, it is 
“sto:^ng power ” than singles usually ha 
variety oomma 
verv garden it should 
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a fine lemon-yellow petals; H 
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decorations, for 
®«<»awon with other eoloure. This i 
wide. It is known to the Japanese as 
“Kashiwa,” and is sometimes found under 
the botanical name of Quercus Daimyo. 
Mature trecis sometimes attain a height of 
80 feet, but Japanese travellers tell us 
that as a full-grown specimen it is by no 
means imposing, the branch system being 
of a loose character, and lacking the sym¬ 
metry which is usually associated with the 
head of a full-grown oak. 
Professor Sargent, in the ‘‘Forest Flor-i 
worth including in the dec*orative part of 
the garden, for its leaves are very im¬ 
posing, while another distinct feature is 
noticed in the large numbe»’ of loose, nar¬ 
row, brownish scales which surround the 
rather large terminal buds. 
The species is better adapted for the 
southern than the northern parts of the 
country, and must be planted in good 
loamy soil to ensure a full development of 
its distinctive characteristics. AV. D. 
