August 9 , 1913 . 
THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
595 
Mr. Amos Perry with a silver cigar- 
ft^case, and Mr. WUliam Perry with a 
Mse of pipes, as tokens of gratitude and 
.p^^atiom^deners’ Company is 
one of the two aty Companies to which 
iromen apprentices are jrdmitt^, and at 
the present time the comfpany has six aip- 
nreiitices, ef which three are women. These 
latter are Miss Ursula Joyce, Miss Beatrice 
Shead and Miss Joyce Bbhlewhite, and 
thev inimplete their indentures in 1914. 
191 * 6 , and 1919 respectively, when they will 
be admitted to the Freedom of the Com- 
panv bv servitude. The first woman ap¬ 
prentice to the Company was Martha 
Squires, but she did not become free of 
the Company owing to her not having 
completed her indentures. It is, however, 
AUTUMN ROSE PROSPECTS- 
The prospects of a good autumn crop of 
rose blossom are indeed “ rosey ” in the 
majority of gardens that have come under 
my special notice of late. If these are 
realist, we shall have had by no means a 
bad season on the whole, although the early 
outlook was particularly gloomy. Ail 
through the southern counties we appear te 
have been favoured with genial showers that 
came at a very opportune moment, when 
the spell of dry easterly winds had quite 
parched and cracked the soil in many places. 
With the present improvements, espe¬ 
cially among the hybrid tea and dwarf poly- 
antha sections, I do not think we need fear 
many unsatisfactory autumnal displays. 
Quite a number of the best-known varieties 
been the most reliable with me: Betty, 
Caroline Testout, Duchess of Wellington, 
Edu Meyer, Gustave Regis, La Tosca, Lady 
Battersea, Madame Abel Chatenay, Madame 
Ravary, Richmond, Viscountess Folkestone, 
and Etoile de France. A select dozen from 
the teas and noisettes may be found in Cor- 
allina, G. Nahonnand, Peace, Lady Roberts, 
Madame Antoine Mari, Madame Jean Du- 
puy, Mario Van Houtte, Molly Slnarman 
Crawford, Mrs. R. B. Cant, Sonv. de Pierre 
Netting, Reve d’Or, and William Allen 
Richardson, the last two being oliml)ors. 
To secure the very best results from the 
late bloomers they should not suffer from 
want of attention. Consistent hoeing and 
clearing of growtlis, also the prompt re¬ 
moval of all expanded blossoms, together 
with the help of a little quick-acting artifi- 
Flowers very large; soft rose-pink. 
that in 1667 Lydia Hinch. the 
take ^ ^ Past Master, was allow^ to 
three apprentices who had been 
husband, in order to 
^^i<i^nfures, and thus oibtain 
Become Mem. 
the W ^meeting 
A branch of the British Gar- 
20. Mr to be held on August 
%ke w ii gardener at Grims 
‘ ^ discussion entitled 
Gardeners be Admitted to 
'^atio^pBritish Gardeners’ As- 
XT,- , outing of the 
Augnox -iQ^ branch will take place on 
Albane’ ^ ^ 
Ha*/' Lodge, 
^•■“nch ^ eald, is the Watford 
NYMPH.ffiA COLOSSEA. 
A.M., July 29. Leopold de Rothschild. Esq., Gunnersbury House, Acton. 
b the present day are most pleasing m 
leir reliabdity, and, so far as garden 
ecoration and cut flowers are concerned, 
re quite up to their best during the 
iitnmnal months, when the majority of the 
Ider hybrid perpetuals and damasks are 
Imost flowerless. Mrs. John Laing, Fisher 
[olmes, Ulrich Brunner, Auguste Rigo- 
ird Baroness Rothschild, General Jacque- 
linot Madame Victor Verdier, Mrs. R. G. 
barman Crawford, Tom Wood, and 
[ugo are grand late bloomers of the hybrid 
er^tual section; while none can surpass 
’rau Karl Druschki, a much more recent 
itroduction than those previously named. 
Taken as a class, the hybrid teas are 
uperb autumnal bloomers, and only^ to 
ame a dozen seems somewhat unfair. Still, 
s some slight help to intending planters, I 
[lay perhaps mention some that havA 
cial or liquid manure must not be omitted. 
We have, in fact, to supply food and en¬ 
couragement to this later growth, even 
more than to that first appearing, and not 
lose sight of the fact that the roots have 
more or less exhausted the soil, unless 
it was extra rich; hence the need for help 
in the way of manures. Should the soil be 
very dry, copious waterings are needed. 
Nor must we forget that it is towards 
late summer and autumn, with the greater 
variations of day and night temperatures, 
that our most insidious autumnal foe—mil¬ 
dew—so persistently attacks the younger 
foliage, and, although, 1 fear, getting 
rather monotonous, I must once more re¬ 
mind readers of the great efficacy of a 
prompt use of the syringe. I believe the 
hoe is most useful in checking autumnal 
mildew. Rosarian. 
