May 1, 1905 
low and Antoine Ducher. It forms a 
strong, sturdy bush, very robust in habit, 
with foliage that emits the true sweetbriar 
fragrance. The flowers are sunset yellow 
or reddish gold, and are highly fragrant ; 
hardy everywhere; splendid for single 
specimens or for hedges. In this same class 
of hardy roses of the rugesa and. sweetbriar 
type may be mentioned Sir Thomas Lip- 
ton, arugosarose. The flowers are large, 
very double, pure white, and fragrant. It 
is freer blooming than any other rugosa, 
and will prove a splendid variety for hedg- 
ing purposes. From Germany comes an- 
other great new hardy rose—Frau Karl 
Druschki. The flowers are almost as large 
as those of American Beauty, deliciously 
fragrant, full, deep, and double. This va- 
riety may be called a free blooming hybrid 
perpetual, being a cross between. Merveille 
de Lyon and Mme. Caroline Testout. The 
color is snow white, Apart fromi Margaret 
Dickson, we do not have a really great, 
white rose in this class, and this variety 
may be considered one of the best, if not 
the best hardy hybrid perpetual rose of its 
color. 
Among the newer hybrid teas of promi- 
nence and merit we have Bessy Brown, a 
really wenderful rose, with large, double, 
deep flowers, borne on strong, erect stems, 
after the style of Souvenir du President, 
Carnot, which it resembles in growth and 
somewhat in flower, but is distinct enough 
to deserva a plaice at the head of the list. 
We hear but little of the rose that. bears 
the honcred name of Admiral Schley, 
which as a pot plant possesses rare value, 
The color is rich\ glowing, velvety crimson. 
The flowers have unusual substance, a valu- 
able point, are delightfully fragrant, and 
borne in. greati abundance. A clean, 
healthy dwarf grower, with splendid foli- 
age. Since Killarney has become recog- 
nised as a rose of more than: ordinary merit, 
such roses as Mme. Jules Grolez, its coun- 
terpart in color and almost equal in flower, 
remains unnoticed; a splendid grower, 
and with proper management, it should 
prove a strong competitor of Killarney. 
The list is incomplete without Lady Joy, 
w Cross between American Beauty and Bell 
Siebrecht, a royal parentage ; flowers large, 
cup-shaped, almost double, with enormous 
shell-like petals of good substance, highly 
fragrant; the color is new—lively crimson. 
Mrs. Robert Garrett is of the same type, 
but not as free blooming ; immense, bright 
clear pink flowers. We cannot omit Win- 
nie Davis, one of the fairest of the newer 
hybrid tea roses; very free blooming, of 
good habit of growth, with immense, long, 
heavy buds, splendidly formed, developing 
into unusually large flowers; color bright 
apricot-pink, shading flesh tint at the base 
of petals. 
Right here I wish to compliment our 
American rose growers upon the splendid 
results achieved in producing new roses of 
thers across the sea have done for the rose, 
merit. Fully conscious of what our bro- 
for which we are indebted to them, I would 
-splendid new 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
say naught against the magnilicent work 
they have done, and are doing. Unlike 
cur American growers, however, who hesi- 
tate to offer a rose unless it be of pronounc- 
ed merit, from my own personal experience, 
each year hundreds of varieties are produc- 
ed in Europe, many of which have little or 
no merit to commend them. I know of 
nothing that is so fraught with) pleasure, 
as well as disappointment, as the trying out 
of new roses, and it has been the practice of 
our company up until recent years toi try 
out the new roses of Europe as they have 
been introduced, and I can say thai the 
large majority of these new varieties of 
foreign origin have been disappointing. 
Therefore our American growers are to be 
not only congratulated, but also commend- 
ed, upon the work they are doing, and tho 
precaution shown in introducing any and 
every seedling they originate. 
I need not call attention to Mr. Hill’s 
rose, Richmond. It has 
spoken for itself, and, as a candidate for 
popular favor in the class of red forcing 
roses, it seems to be a decided improvement 
over any we have at this time. Rosalind 
Grr English is another promising hybrid 
tea. John Cook, to whom we doff our 
hats as one. of the veteran introducers of 
meritorious new roses, contributes Cardi- 
nal, a beautiful crimson hybrid tea, and 
Enchanter, an extremely free blooming 
variety, with large, clear, bright pink flow- 
cvs. Mr. Cook selects this variety as the 
best of over 500 seedlings. Let me recom- 
mend Souvenir de Pierre Notting as one of 
the best roses for all around purposes in- 
treduced in many years. It will take front 
rank, if not surpass from every standpoint, 
white and pink Maman Cochet, the best 
roses for summer flowering «in thé open 
ground. This new variety is a splendid 
grower, throwing up beautiful flowers on 
long, stiff, erect stems. The bloomiis large 
and double, opens easily, and possesses un- 
usual substance. Difficult to describe, ap- 
ricot yellow, tinged with golden mixed with 
orange ‘yellow, while the edge of the petals 
are shaded carmine. Every florist who 
has a foot of ground for summer roses 
should have this one. Mme. Derepas- 
-Matrat has established itself as a compa- 
nicn to the Cocheti roses, which it resembles 
in every particular, except that the color 
is deep yellow, 
The following varieties are also among 
the most promising of the newer sorts: 
Canadian Queen. is an improvement over 
Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mme. Cusin, and 
Mrs. Oliver Ames, the latter of which’ it 
resembles in color; General MacArthur, a 
vivid crimson hybrid tea; Red Cliatenay, 
deeper in. color than the parent; Uncle 
John, more pronounced in color than Gol- 
den Gate; Beauty of Rosemawr, rich car- 
mine red, valuable for outdoor purposes ; 
La Detroit, distinct and valuable, shell 
pink, good for forcing; Saxonia, worthy 
trying as an improvement over Golden 
Gate; Mrs. B. R. Cant, unusually valuable 
for amateur cultivation, better than Papa 
Gontier; Aurora, an improvement over 
Hermosa; Franz Deegen, an immense 
deep, double yellow rose, alike in habit 
and growth with Kaiserin Augusta Vic- 
toria, and far superior to Perle von Godes- 
burg, sent out as Yellow Kaiserin; Flor- 
ence Pemberton, a strong growing hybrid 
tea, large shell-pink flowers, good for open 
ground work; Maddalena Scalarandis will 
rank with the Cochet roses outdoors; color 
rich, dark pink, on yellow ground. Ideal 
ranks with Bridesmaid and Laj France, pink 
in color. Asan example of an exceedingly 
rare rose, I mention the variety York and 
Lancaster, which dates back to the War of 
the Roses between the royal houses of York 
and Lancaster, said to have originated 
when when these warring factions became 
united, its colors representing the white 
of the Yorkists and the red of the Lan- 
castriang, the flower being a combination 
of red and white, blotched and striped. 
Magnafrano is a free blooming hybrid tea, 
with large, double pink flowers. Wellesley 
ig a remarkably free flowering forcing 
variety. The color is bright pink; a 
good keeper. For greenhouse men doing 
a local trade there is always a demand for 
a hardy ever-blooming climbing rose. To 
mect this demand there is no better variety 
than Climbing Clothilde Soupert. 
Tha list of the newer and promising va- 
rieties could be extended to considerable 
length, but I feel that IT have already en- 
croached too fax upon the patience of you 
gentlemen, and in thanking you for your 
kind attention, I wis hto express the hope 
that I may have said something of value to 
growers, as well as helped deserving roses 
to greater popularity. 
THE ROSE. 
Ts it any wonder that poets and artists 
are always striving with all the power that 
ig in them to catch the beauty of the great 
floral queen? No, it is not. They would 
fail in their missions did they not ‘hear or 
not see, or not bow before the beauty of 
the flower which’ stands highest in the es 
timation of the world’s gardeners. Such 
a flower as the rose could not possibly 
be hidden long. The poetic sense must 
soon be drawn towards her, and the ar- 
tistic eye find all that it seeks im the 
colouring and form of her lovely leaves 
and flowers. Roses were made to be ad- 
mired, and men and women would’ not be 
what they have: proved themselves to be, 
hiad they passed the beauty of the rose by. 
Flower lovers we are all, and, more or less, 
in quest of the beautiful, hunting it day 
by day, as the bee does the opening bud, 
which it knows to contain two! factors— 
honey and pollen—that give it life. When 
the beautiful comes to us, as it does so 
often in the form of a rose in the prime of 
life, we do well to stay, if only for a mo- 
ment, -to catch and feel the glory, the 
strength, the sweetness, and the inspira- 
tion which are folded so prettily in the 
petals which form the flower. Straight 
from the heart of mother Earth these won- 
