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chat; Sunset, Mad. de Watteville, Frau 
‘Dubriel, Mrs. Edward Mawley, perhaps 
the finest rose in the collection; Lady 
Mary Fitzwiluam, a bloom which we 
thought it difficult to beat; Marquise 
Littia, and a remarkably fine bush of the 
ever-favorite Cecil Brunner. 
In the side bed we noted the roses are 
accompanied by their confreres, the Car- 
nations, and amongst the latter there were 
‘some of the best, including Aldgate Striped, 
Alma, and Richard Douglas. The roses 
were represented by such prizetakers as 
‘Muriel Grahame, Paul Neron, Beaute In- 
-constante, Catherin Guillot, Liberty (not 
doing well), and Killarney. There were 
also Souvenir de Pierre Notting, Safrano, 
Dr. Passet, Princess Alice de Monarco, a 
very fine doer; the great beauty Mildred 
Grant, and one of the late ones from Ame- 
rica, Admiral Dewey. 
With such a collection it is little won- 
der that Dr. Hamilton takes a great: pride 
ini “all his own growing,’ fand we are 
pleased to be able to congratulate him upon. 
being amiongst the prizetakers at the last 
show in the Exhbition, where he had te 
beat several professional growers who had 
staged. a very fine set of roses. His garden 
is quite an object lesson in what an ama- 
teur can produce with a comparatively 
limited amount of time and space. His 
ground, too, being upon a limestone sub- 
soil close up to the surface is very good 
proof that roses with care are not so sus- 
ceptible to the thrsty conditions of lime- 
stone as most gardeners seem to think. 
ROSES AS RAMBLERS. 
Many of the climbing roses could be set 
out to grow at will as bushes, with little 
or no attempt at pruning them. When so 
grown they form large clumps of great 
beauty. Last season some large clumps 
of the wild prairie rose, R. setigera, and of 
the Japanese, R. multiflora, grown in this 
way, were objects of great attraction when. 
in flower. These and simlar climbing roses 
may be set out on banks, in a half wild 
state, and let ramble at will. Both, the 
setigera and multiflora planted this way 
make a profuse display of flowers. Wichu- 
raiana, known as the memorial rose, is 
often planted in like positions, but its habit 
of lying almost prostrate on the ground 
fits it for uses other than the half-wild 
one the others suit so well. The seti- 
gera and multiflora will, when “the plants 
are strong, mike shoots ten to twelve feet 
in length, and these shoots produce a miass 
of flowers the season following. Our land- 
scape gardeners have found how useful 
these and similar roses are for massing 
purposes. The setigera is usually one of 
those planted both! because of its beautiful 
single pink flowers and that it blooms later 
than the others. 
A BEAUTIFUL HEDGE, 
This is a long hedge, or series of hedges, 
formed of different flowering plants, one 
following the other along the whole stretch. 
THE AUSIRALIAN GARDENER. 
White Sweet Peas, for example, may 
clothe a few yards, then orange Nastur- 
tiums may appear also up neatly arranged 
Pea sticks, then Canary Creeper, then. blue 
Convolvuluses, then pink Peas, white Bind- 
weed, Lathyrus sativus, dark Nasturtiums, 
Tropeolum, pink Convolvuluses, carmine 
Peas, and Gourds. If a few lengths of 
the hedge are made of perennials, so much 
the better ; we can use Jasmines, white and 
yellow, Pyrus Japonica, Calystegia pubes 
cens, perennial Lathyrus latifolius, rose 
and white Clematises, Brier and other 
Roses, lIvies, Rubus fruticosus plenus, 
Honeysuckles, and even Ampelopsis. <A 
favored spot will allow of a hedge of half- 
hardy subjects, among which Cobeas, purple 
and white, should not be forgotten. Pas- 
sion Flowers, Mina lobata, Maurandyas, 
and Lophospermum scandens may be in- 
duced to flourish. A hedge made of no- 
thing but different Ivies is very pretty, 
or, of course, the Ivies can be used to hide 
an ugly wall. 
M. Hawtuorne. 
BURBANK’S FADELESS FLOWER 
FROM AUSTRALIA, 
(From “The Florists’ Exchange.”’) 
When I heard that there was a new 
flower that was sure to hold its color, not 
to wilt or decay, the picture came before 
me of a flower on the poinsettia style. I 
pictured to myself, looking at the humor- 
ous side of it, say, a million homes in New 
England which would have, instead of the 
case of wax bloom, a million of “Burbank’s 
fadeless,” and these would be kept to show 
on special occasions. There would be no 
more object in producing flowers, for, with 
the everlasting flower in each home, there 
would be no desire to grow others; the 
pecple would all be supplied in a short time 
and the flower market killed. Rather a dis- 
mal outlook for the grower, but a bright 
one for those who are lovers of flowers, for, 
like the traditions of our New England 
-families, would be the family flower, and on 
special cecasions it would be brought forth 
to embellish the old New England parlor 
and the wax flowers in their case would 
sink into insignificance beside the beauty 
cf the flower which never fades. 
Fact and fiction sometimes go together, 
and so in this case. I have told yow my im- 
pression of the flower which was based on 
sensational newspaper articles which were 
written without consent of Mr. Burbank, 
and sy those who knew as much of flowers 
and their uses as a cow does of gunpowder 
and snipe shooting. 
On January 26 I had the pleasure of a 
very interesting visit to the Burbank home 
at Santa Rosa, Cal., and from him: person- 
ally I learned the truth concerning this 
interesting flower, and I am, with his con- 
sent, writing the facts ‘as they really are in 
regard to it. 
' Cephalipterum) Drummondi is the name 
of the plant, and so far as I know there 
is no common name. This rare plant was 
discovered in 1902 in North-Western Aus- 
bank from there. 
April i, 1905 
tralia, and seeds of if were sent to Mr. Bur- 
It has been grown by 
him and improved on, and is now producing 
flowers three times the size of the blooms 
produced by the original type. Thus we 
sce that it was not an origination of Mr. 
Burbank’s, and it is, therefore, a production 
of nature, and nature alone is responsible 
fcr the species. The seed which Mr. Bur- 
bank first received produced flowers about 
one-half inch in diameter, light pink in 
color, and borne in clusters on ai stem, soine 
8 in. in length. The foliage of th eplant 
is a light green, judging from the flower 
which Mr. Burbank presented me, and not 
heavy in texture. There are ten blooms and 
buds on this spike, and the flower has 
eleven petals in every instance. This speci- 
men. has now been picked over a year ard 
a half, and, according to Mr. Burbank, it 
has its natural color to-day, and. the form 
of the flower is the same to-day as when 
picked a:tyear and a half ago. The bloom 
is not easily broken judging from: its pre- 
sent condition, and the treatment it has re- 
ceived since it came into my possession. 
By nature the plant is a half-hardy en- 
nual, and it will do best in a dry climate 
and with a dry soil. Environment has had 
a great deal to do with producing such a 
plant, but it seems to do well under con- 
ditions of greater moisture. 
What the value of such ai plant will be is 
a question which can only be answered 
when the plant has been grown more gene- 
rally. Judging from what [have seen of it 
the chief value would lie in its being used 
as a border plant, or for use in bedding. 
The enormous quantity of blooms, and 
the fact that they retain color and form 
would make it such, if combined with ra- 
pidity of growth and strong qualities of ger- 
mination of the seed. 
Some seed of the original type of cepha- 
lipterum has been disseminated, but no 
seed of the improved type will be allowed 
to leave Mr. Burbank’s place until 1907 o» 
later, and not then unless he is satisfied 
that it is of value and has completed his 
work of improvement. . 
San Francisco papers have published sen- 
sational reports of this plant, and give a 
great deal of space to it from the stand- 
point of the milliner, representing that it 
will outclass the artificial flowers for milli- 
nery purposes, but how much of this is 
substantial remains to be proven. As I 
have said before, as a useful bedding plant 
and as a floricultural novelty it has a place, 
and is deserving of interest and study. 
T forwarded Mr. Burbank for his ep- 
proval and correction the above article, and — 
‘TL take the liberty of quoting from his lettcr 
in reference to it: “Your description of 
the Burbank’s fadeless flower is exceedingly 
valuable and correct, and I thank you 
heartily for this authorised description.” 
Tn regard to the value of the cephalipterum 
in millinery work, he says in this letter: 
“As to the millinery part of the business, 
the largest millinery establishment in the 
world has, after examining the flower with 
