DECEMBER I, 1902. 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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tion to be first to unfold their graceful 
beauty. Beautiful as this picture may ap- 
pear, it can in no way compare with a 
hedge of Penzance briers. They are simply 
magnificent for forming hedges. The plants 
are vigorous, throwing up strong rods as 
thick as walking sticks, and from six to 
eight and ten feet high, set with thorns and 
formidable as a square of infantry prepared 
for a cavalry charge. 
To form a hedge with such subjects is an 
easy matter, and I will tell briefly how it 
may be done. There are many situations 
in which a Rose hedge is desired, but for 
many reasons has never been planted. Ob- 
jections are sometimes raised that Rose 
hedges, although very beautiful, are use- 
less, because they form no protecting 
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Maman Cochet. 
The best way to start a hedge of these 
Roses is to tie the long shoots of each 
plant to the base of its neighbor, and con- 
tinue this from end to end, no pruning be- 
ing required. In the following spring 
growth will be emitted from all the lateral 
buds, which will produce quantities of 
single blossoms varying in color from cop- 
pery orange to almost white, and varying 
in size from one to two and a half inches 
in diameter, strongly perfumed with the 
odor of sweet brier which is also much in 
evidence in the foliage. The flowers are fol- 
lowed by seed pods in great abundance, 
varying in size and color, some ripening an 
orange yellow and others quite scarlet, 
which hang on the plant, producing a 
charming effect. - The flowers are followed 
Tea (Cochet, 1893). Introduced into this State in 1897, and spoken 
of in England as one of the finest teas sent out during the last ten years. 
Colour described as light pink mingled with salmon yellow, outer petals 
tinged with bright rose ; growth vigorous and free-flowering, blooms of 
large size, and standing our variations of weather well. 
An absolutely 
dependable Rose, easy to grow, and responding readily to good cultiva- 
tion in richer colouring and increased size of flowers, which, however, 
are inclined to come coarse if too closely pruned. 
boundary. This objection does not re- 
main since the advent of the hybrid briers, 
and I venture tq assert if these Roses are 
planted, in almost any soil, in two rows, 
two feet from row to row, and three feet 
from ‘plant to plant, they will form, with 
the assistance of a little binding and inter- 
lacing of the stronger shoots for a couple of 
seasons, not only an object of the greatest 
beauty, but also an impenetrable fence, 
through which no animal with a divided 
hoof can penetrate, and after four years’ 
growth even a man who rides hard to 
hounds will draw rein and look before he 
will make up his mind to negotiate it, and 
in the end will seek the gate. No barbed 
Wire is required for a hedge of Penzance 
Briers. 
_by vigorous shoots starting. from the base 
of the plants, and these must be suffered 
to grow unmolested until late autumn, 
when they may be treated in the same way 
as the strong rods of the previous autumn. 
No pruning will be required the follow- 
ing spring. Two winters after planting 
the hedge will be an object of intense inte- 
rest and satisfaction to its owner. 
For table decoration these single flowers 
are delightful, light, pretty, and fairly 
lasting, and from such a hedge as I have 
endeavored to describe they may be 
gathered in barrow loads, on long elegant 
stalks, without injury to the plants. 
I append the names of the complete set 
of sixteen varieties raised by. Lord Pen- 
zance ; and add that to the qualifications I 
have mentioned, these Roses may also be 
planted singly on lawns and in shrubberies, 
where they will flower freely and last many 
years. 
Amy Robsart, lovely deepjrose ; Anne of 
Gierstein, dark crimson; brenda, maiden’s 
blush or peach, dainty in color and shade ; 
Catherine Seaton, a very pleasing tint of 
soft rosy pink, the bright golden anthers 
being very prominent; Edith Bellenden, 
pale rose, flowering profusely in. clusters ; 
Hlora MclIvor, pure white, blushed with 
rose ; Green Mantle, bright rich pink with 
a band of white encircling the anthers, 
which, with their background of white, 
have a very pretty effect; Jeannie Deans, 
very large scarlet crimson, semi-devble, 
flowering treely in clusters; Julia Manner- 
ing, the prettiest of all the pink varieties ; 
Lady Penzance, copper, wilh a peculiar 
metallic lustre, the base of petals being a 
brignt yellow; Lord Penzance, soft shade 
of fawn or ecru, passing toa lovely merald 
yellow in the centre sometimes toned with 
a delicate pink ; Lucy Ashton, pretty white 
blooms, with pink edges; Lucy B.rtram, a 
fine deep crimson, the richest color of all, 
centre pure white, showing the bright yel- 
low anthers to great advantage ; Meg Mer- 
rilies, gorgeous crimson, very free sower- 
ing; Minna, large pure white, opening 
with a tint of palest blush ; and!-Rose Brad- 
wardine, beautiful clear rose, perfect in 
shape. 
BSOSESO S68 
A Blue Rose 
grown by a head gardener named Mac- 
donald, in the United States, has been sent 
to Kew Gardens. As a rarity it may 
claim rank with the choicest new orchid. 
and it is, therefore, not surprising to learn 
that on the way over the Atlantic it re- 
ceived the most careful attention, and was 
protected in a specially constructed minia- 
ture greenhouse—a care which was re- 
warded by its arrival with blooms in excel- 
lent condition.—“B. Weekly.” 
PHRSOs SESE3E4 
Rose for the Rock Garden. 
Rose LaMArQux, 
One ofthe most beautiful of white Roses 
that I have seen for a long time was the old 
Lamarque that was rambling all over a cold 
house, where it was evidently quite at home. 
The long growths of last year, studded at 
every joint with ‘beautiful buds and some 
more fully developed blooms, had attained a 
a great size. Asa variety to come in after 
Niphetos is over, and just before the out- 
door blooms can be depended on, this kind 
will well repay the shelter of a glass roof, for 
in the case mentioned the glass lights had 
only been erected to cover in a spare 
corner where but little direct sunshine reaches 
it.— J. G. Gosport, in‘*Ti:e Garden,” 
