___ April 1, 1904 THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. Tien 
ROSES, 
AUTUMN FLOWERING ROSES. 
Now that there are so many Roses of 
value for autumn flowering, a selection of 
the best should prove of much assistance to 
all who are planting mainly for the autumnal 
display. The lengthening nights, coupled 
with heavy dews, give to the semi-double 
Roses a wonderful decorative value, for 
such varieties expand freely, yet the deve- 
loped blossoms remain on the plant for a 
considerable time, so that we have a more 
profuse display in April and May than we 
get in October and November from the 
same varieties. 
No list of autumnals can be completa 
without the lovely G. Nabonnand, its very 
jarge petals, of a pale rose flesh tint, and 
long, elegant. buds, combined with fine 
growth, making it one of the most desir- 
able. Then how brilliant are the buds of 
the fragrant Gruss an Teplitz, some of the 
‘Mowers having the beautiful velvety shading 
of Duke of Edinburgh, and, moreover, the 
colored foliage is an additional charm to 
this glorious Rose. Camoens is not yet 
surpassed as a bright rose-pink for mass- 
ing, and Marquise de Salisbury is certainly 
one of the brightest Roses and of even 
growth. Both of these last-named are ex- 
tremely showy on the plant, and by pruning 
hard each season a more uniform growth 
and also a more regular blossoming are 
secured. Corallina, Enchantress, and :Sul- 
phurea are a trio of beautiful kinds, the 
first even more vigorous than the old pink 
monthly, and it has huge coral-colored 
petals and long, brilliant {buds. Hnchan- 
tress, with its half-drooping, globular 
flowers of a delicate creamy yellow, and 
Sulphurea, clear and bright sulphur yellow, 
are colors much desired. All three are 
really excellent, and should be largely 
planted fur massing. Mme. Pernet Ducher 
is a never-failing source of. delight, and 
Killarney gains more admirers each season. 
The old and well-tried Marie Van Houtte, 
its carmine-tinted petals being ‘richer ip 
autumn than in the height of summer, and 
Mme. Abel Chatenay ;arey both vigorous 
and would make worthy companions. 
’ his latter Rose somehow compels admira- 
tion, even from those who cannot: bring 
themselves to like these decorative Roses. 
What a strange taste, to be sure! But 
I have known individuals who can only | 
admire a show bloom of the perfect sym- 
metry of an A. K. Williams or a Mrs, John 
Laing Viscountess Folkestone is still one 
of our best autumnals, and it has.a worthy ~ 
eompanion in Grand Due de Luxembourg. _ 
Marie d’Orleans is also first-rate, and as 
hardy as it is good. Papa Gontier has most 
shapely buds and smooth blossoms, and 
Mme Lambard is also a fine autumnal 
Rose. General Schablikine and Comtesse. 
¥Festetics Hamilton have a great future, for 
they grow and blossom most freely, and are ~ 
Ma Tulipe — 
will also please a great many, although 
always admired in the mass. 
nearly single. Its fragrant parent, Princess 
Bonnie, is one of the best things the 
American growers have ever sent us. Lady 
Battersea has a most lovely bud, the ex- 
panded flowers, being not unlike those of 
Killarney, only rather deeper in color: A 
trophy at the Temple Show. 
refined, shapely, and brilliant Rose, too, is 
Liberty, and, above all, it possesses a 
powerful fragrance. Already this Rose 
seems to have recovered from excessive 
propagation, and I feel sure it will come to 
the front as one of our best dark colored 
autumnals. What a fine contrast would be 
the charming White Lady, splendid always 
in autumn. The La France race and, I 
might say, the Caroline Testout race, are 
well known as our best large-flowered 
autumuals, and the old and still unbeaten 
Souvenir de la Malmaison, with its 
sulphur-white sport, Kronprinzessin Vic- 
toria, give us of their beauty just now 
as they never do in the summer. 
I could speak of the delightful Chinas, 
Queen Mab, Eugene Resal, and the rest, 
also some Polyanthas and others, but I 
have already indicated quite a number that 
the grower may with every confilence plant 
largsly if his object be a brilliant mass of 
blossoms during the autumn days. 
ROSE BEAUTY OF WALTHAM. 
It says mueh for an old favorite like 
Beauty of Waltham that in this, its fortieth 
4) ss ROSE BEAUTY OF WALTHAM °°” ay. 
year, the variety is found in the winning 
seventy-two that gained the champion 
It is a very 
reliable Rose. It blossoms freely, and one 
may always depend upon a good flower, 
even if rather under-sized. Beauty of 
Waltham is a good autumnal for a Hybrid 
Perpetual. Unfortunately this group, col- 
lectively, does not rank as good autumnals 
when compared to the splendid Hybrid 
Toas, so that all that are above the average 
in this respect are most welcome. The 
color is bright cherry-red, passing to rosy- 
carmine, and the fragrance is very swéet, 
The petals are somewhat imbricated, the 
centres characteristically folded over each 
other. This traitin hot weather preserves 
the flower, but it undoubtedly accounts for: 
the paucity of seedlings from the variety.. 
If taken in hand by the hybridist a valu- 
able hardy type would be produced. It is 
really remarkable how the Hybrid Per-. 
‘petuals lend themselves to crossing, and I 
wonder there is not more of it done, instead 
of so many raisers following each other in. 
the track of Hybrid Teas. We see in the 
variety Ben Cant how the fine bold petals. 
of Suzanne Marie Rodocanachi are given to 
a flower of the color and form of Victor: 
Hugo, the two kinds named being the. 
parents of this coming Rose. Beauty of: 
Waltham is a first-rate kind to grow as a 
standard, either’outdoors or as’a pot plant 
for the rose-house. :-Itiis also good in bush’ - 
form, but the seedling: Brier is the best’ — 
stools for it, as. this continues to grow in *? 
autumn whenthe Manetti is practically st?’ 
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