THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
* » ROSES. ®* 
DECBMEER 1, 1902._ 
PSESCEESCE SOS 
The Great Temple Rose 
Show in London. 
These notes, culled from the reports of 
this great annual English show, will be in- 
teresting to many of our rosarian readers: 
As an exhibition of specimen Hoses the 
display was a failure. There were nume- 
rous entries, but the retarding season had, 
kept back the blooms. The bloooms shown 
consisted in the main of Hybrid Teas, Teas, 
and Noisette, and some varieties not usu- 
ally staged at large exhibitions had to be 
called into requisition to make up stands. 
Among the new Roses shown in cut blooms 
can be mentioned Messrs. Frank Cant and 
Co.’s Lady Roberts, beautiful in tint; 
Souvenir de Pierre Notting, a delicate soft 
yellow tea scented variety, and Dorothy 
Perkins, a new climbing Rose, which re- 
cently gained an award of merit from the 
Royal Horticultural Society. It is the re- 
sult of a cross between Rosa Wichuraiana 
and H. P. Madame Gabriel Luizet. It pro- 
duces its flowers in large clusters of a shell 
pink tint with a white centre, and the new 
pink Rambler, Queen Alexandra, was also 
to be seen. It is a new pink Rambler, but 
the group of Ramblers increase rapidly. 
The collection of garden Roses, shown in 
bold bunches, was one of the features of the 
Rose Show, but the heat of the tents told 
somewhat severely upon the semi-double” 
and single blooms, and many of them drop- 
ped to pieces. 
show in the great tent was the standard 
forms of R. Wichuraiana varieties, which 
form large symmetrical weeping heads, the 
drooping branches laden with blossoms. 
Among them were Rene Andre, double, 
creamy white tinted with pink; Augus- 
tue Barbier, double, soft pink; Alberic 
Barbier, double, white; Paul Transon, 
double, creamy white, and Francois Fou- 
card, yellow, double. It was said that 
some of these were submitted for award to 
the Floral Committee, but that not one was 
made, and I heard complaints that subjects 
so intrinsically good were not recognised, 
but the fact is they should be dealt with 
by Rose experts. Of the new Polyantha 
Roses, Eugenie Lamesch, color orange yel- 
low passing to clear yellow with a shading 
of rose, and producing its flowers in clus- 
ters of from ten to thirty blooms, and 
Leoni Lamesch, color bright coppery red, 
with golden centre, very distinct and beau- 
tiful, and others. This was a very fine 
group of Roses, quite maintaining the old 
character of the Royal Nursery, Slough, for 
high-class culture. 
In a large group shown by Messrs. Paul 
and. Son, the Old Nurseries, Cheshunt, ap- 
peared several novelties, among them a 
variety of Rosa sinica, named Anemone, a 
large and attractive single variety of a 
bright rosy carmine tint; the new weeping 
One of the features of the’ 
’ Grant. 
R. rugosa alba, which has a remarkable 
pendant habit of growth. This was award- 
ed a gold medal by the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society. Then there was a new per- 
petual Rambler named Purple East; and 
Leuchstern, a polyantha with the growth 
and foliage of the Crimson Rambler, the 
large single flowers bright rose, with ai 
white centre, and an abundant bloomer. In_ 
addition, there was a Una, a semi-double 
white, the result of a cross between Rosa 
canina and a Dijon tea variety. 
rather too near Viscountess Folkestone ; 
and Dr. Campbell Hall, something after 
La. Fraicheur. Sir Robert Stout resembles 
Charles Lefebvre, and will be very wel- 
come, for we want dark Roses, and if they 
are Hybrid Teas so much the better, 
There was also shown a white sport from 
Lawrence Allen, which should be valuable 
if it retains the good form of its parent, 
Somehow the boxes of new Roses usually 
seen at shows cut a sorry figure, and they 
often. libel a Rose, for how can one obtain 
a good bloom from a plant perhaps 
weakened through propagating. Many 
Roses are now introduced which, taken as 
individual flowers, fall short of the ex- 
hibitor’s ideal, but the profusion of bloom 
Vase of Tea Roses. 
SOME NEW ROSES AT THE TEMPLE 
ROSE SHOW, LONDON. 
(From “Gardening Illustrated.”’) 
There was nothing very startling exhi- 
bited at the Temple Show of the National 
Rose Society this year, excepting Mildred 
Those who saw the bloom that 
received a special medal as the best 
Hybrid Tea in the show can safely say 
they never saw a finer flower. Of Roses 
not yet in commerce I thought well of 
Princess Victoria, although perhaps 
and their late-flowering character give 
them a value which all who desire their 
gardens to be gay in autumn are ready to 
admit. Taking the varieties alphabeti- 
cally, my first is— 5 ? 
Alice Lindsell (H.T.): A gold medal 
Rose having creamy-white flowers with 
pink centre, petals of great substance. 
Ben Cant (H.P.): A grand flower, color 
deep crimson with dark flushes in the 
centre. It is of the Victor Hugo type, 
being a cross between that variety and 
Suzanne M. Rodocantchi. It is very 
sweet ,very perpetual, and a good grower. 
