OcTOBEE 25, 1913. 
804 THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
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NEW ROSES OF THE YEAR. 
Rosarians wlio take a special interest in 
roses of recent introduction will this year 
have no cause to complain of a slackening 
of effort on the part of raisers in their 
endeavour to maintain liberal supplies of 
past season from the National Rose So¬ 
ciety or the Royal Horticultural Society 
may be so described there can be no doubt. 
With r^erence to these, it may be said 
that while any one cultivator may not 
which has its proper place in the garden 
and, in the case of the majority, the 
growth receives hardly less consideration 
than do the flowers. There are, as so well 
known, both exhibition and garden roses 
and the latter comprise several sections! 
all more or lees necessary to the proper 
furnishing of the rose garden or to the 
production of attractive and continuous 
displays of bloom in the flower garden. 
Hence the possibility of having numerous 
varieties without the risk of their being 
in excess of requirements, or of a diflB- 
culty, in selecting from the novelties, of 
Flowers yellow, suffused rose-pink, orange 
novelties. So far from this being the case, 
their activities have been maintained at a 
high level, and these have been so success¬ 
ful as to place at the disposal of the rose- 
loving community a large number of new 
varieties possessing much merit. It may 
be thajt those who are conservative in their 
views with regard to roses may consider 
the number rather too large, but, in the 
opinion of the writer, this cannot well be 
the case, provided they are sufficiently 
high in quality to justify their inclusion 
in a representative selection. That those 
which have received awards during the 
H.T. ROSE MBS. F. W. VANDERBILT, 
centre. N.R.S. Gold Medal at Gloucester, 
(See page 805.) 
require the whole number, or any consider¬ 
able proportion thereof, there does not 
appear to be one that can well be spared. 
In the olden days, when roses, on their 
introduction, were judged solely from the 
exhibition standpoint, the case was dif¬ 
ferent. Then there were but few types 
that engaged the attention of cultivators, 
and the estimate of the varieties was based 
upon the size, form, and colour of 
the flowers. It was, therefore, difficult 
to obtain in a selection of twelve or more 
varieties the necessary degree of distinct¬ 
ness. Now there are many types, each of 
July 15. Messrs. S. McGredy and Son. 
obtaining some that are too much 
Of the novelties that were shown at ^ 
exhibitions of the National Rose . * 
at Gloucester, Regent’s Park, aim 
minster, thirty-one received awar s. 
comprising fifteen gold medals, nin 
ver-gilt medals, and eight cards o 
mendation. 
Gold Medal Roses. 
The middle of July appears to ha^® 
more favourable to raisers tor p 
their new varieties to public nowt 
the first week, for whereas bu 
