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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
October  17,  1896. 
Catherine  Mermet,  although  staged  last  year  less  frequently 
than  at  any  show  since  that  of  1886,  still  holds  the  premier  position 
on  the  list  of  Teas  and  Noisettes,  but  is  closely  followed  by  The 
Bride,  Comtesse  de  Nadaillac,  and  Innocente  Pirola.  The  records 
for  the  different  varieties  are  very  variable,  and  yet  it  is  difficult  to 
obtain  from  them  any  clear  indications  as  to  how  they  were 
individually  affected  and  to  what  extent  the  ranks  of  each  were 
thinned  by  the  disastrous  winter  of  1894-5.  One  thing  is,  however, 
certain,  and  that  ia  ihat  but  a  small  proportion  of  the  blooms 
exhibited  this  year  can  have  been  cut  from  plants  on  that  favourite 
stock  with  exhibitors  for  Tea  E,o:e3,  the  standard  Briar,  so  general 
was  their  destruction.  Innocente  Pirola  and  Madame  Hoste  were 
more  frequently  to  be  seen  this  year  in  the  winning  stands  than  at 
any  previous  exhibition,  while  The  Bride  and  Francisca  Kruger 
have  only  once  before  been  as  well  represented.  On  the  other 
hand.  Souvenir  d’Elise  Vardon,  Jean  Ducher,  and  Madame  Bravy 
have  on  no  previous  occasion  been  as  sparsely  shown,  while 
Catherine  Mermet,  Souvenir  d’un  Ami,  and  Marechal  Niel  have 
only  once  before  had  so  small  a  following.  It  is,  however,  as  I 
said  before,  impossible  to  obtain  from  the  results  any  reliable  clue 
as  to  their  relative  capabilities  of  resisting  severe  winters.  For 
instance,  Niphetos,  Madame  de  Watteville,  and  Madame  Cusin  are 
well  known  to  be  particularly  tender  varieties,  and  yet  they 
appeared  in  about  as  many  stands  as  usual,  whereas  Souvenir  d’un 
Ami,  Caroline  Kuster,  and  Hon.  Edith  Gifford,  generally  con¬ 
sidered  among  the  least  tender  of  the  Teas,  were  badly  represented. 
The  varieties  on  the  table  of  Teas  and  Noisettes  which  are  less 
than  six  years  old  are  only  two  in  number,  Maman  Cochet  and 
Corinna,  both  distributed  in  1893.  The  former,  which  promises 
to  be  a  grand  addition  to  this  section,  on  its  first  appearance  takes 
up  a  position  at  No.  27,  and  Corinna  at  No.  28.  When  the  Teas 
are  examined  in  the  same  way  that  we  have  previously  tested  the 
H  P.’s  the  same  signs  of  stability  among  the  older  varieties  is  not 
nearly  as  evident.  If  we  take,  for  example,  the  only  eight  sorts 
on  the  list  which  are  over  twenty-five  years  old — Catherine  Mermet, 
Souvenir  d’un  Ami,  Souvenir  d’Elise  Yardon,  Niphetos,  Marechal 
Niel,  Mme.  Bravy,  Rubens,  Devonieusis,  and  La  Boule  d’Or — only 
one  of  them,  Catherine  Mermet,  is  found  to  have  as  good  a  record 
for  the  last  five  as  for  the  first  five  years  of  the  analysis.  Or  if 
the  same  nine  varieties  be  grouped  together  the  average  number  of 
times  they  were  shown  in  the  first  half  of  the  decade  comes  out  as 
twelve,  but  in  the  latter  half  as  only  ten.  This  is  no  doubt  due  to 
the  newer  Teas  occupying  higher  positions  in  their  table,  and  thus 
to  a  certain  extent  supplanting  the  older  sorts  than  is  the  case 
with  the  Hybrid  Perpetuals.  Among  the  thirty-three  Teas  tabu¬ 
lated  will  be  found  seven  varieties  which  have  been  sent  out  since 
these  analyses  began,  whereas  there  are  only  three  sorts  as  new 
among  the  first  thirty-three  H.P.’s. 
To  all  those  kind  friends  who  have  again  assisted  me  at  the 
Crystal  Palace  on  a  busy  day  in  taking  down  the  names  of  the 
Roses  in  the  winning  stands  I  once  more  tender  my  best  thanks. 
The  Newer  Roses’  Audit. — The  relative  positions  accorded 
to  the  established  varieties  in  the  tables  of  the  analysis  are  now  as 
nearly  accurate  as  I  think  they  can  well  be  made.  But  it  is  often 
otherwise  with  the  sorts  of  recent  introduction,  owing  to  their 
scanty  records  and  the  disturbing  influence  of  some  particular 
season.  In  order,  therefore,  to  obtain  for  your  readers  the  views 
of  our  leading  amateur  rosarians  and  Rose  nurserymen  as  to  the 
comparative  merits  of  thesi  newer  Roses,  I  recently  forwarded 
them  lists  of  all  the  H.P.’s  and  H.T.’s  sent  out  since  1889,  which 
had  appeared  in  at  least  three  prize  stands  at  either  the  last  or 
previous  Crystal  Palace  show.  Accompanying  the  list  was  a 
request  that  they  would  place  a  mark  against  the  six  varieties  they 
considered  the  best  as  exhi'oition  flowers.  A  similar  list  of  Tea 
Roses  was  also  added,  the  best  three  varieties  on  which  were  to  be 
indicated.  In  reply  I  received  returns  from  the  following 
amateurs  and  nurserymen  : — Amateurs. — Mr.  W.  Boyes,  Dr.  S.  P. 
Budd,  Rev.  F.  R.  Burnside,  Rev.  A.  Foster-Melliar,  Mr.  A.  Hill 
Gray,  Mr.  E.  B.  Lindsell,  Mr.  H.  V.  Machin,  Mr.  0.  G.  Orpen, 
Rev.  J.  H.  Pemberton,  Mr.  A.  Slaughter,  and  Mr.  A.  Tate. 
Nurserymen. — Messrs.  J.  Burrell,  C.  E.  Cant,  F.  Cant,  J.  Cranston, 
A.  Dickson,  R.  Harkness,  W.  J.  Jefferies,  J.  E.  Merry  weather, 
W.  Paul,  A.  Piper,  A.  Prince,  W.  D.  Prior,  and  A.  Turner.  The 
results  of  the  voting  of  these  experts  are  as  follows  •  — 
Hybrid  Perpetuaus  A^D  Hybrid  Teas. 
Position 
in  Audit. 
Toial 
No.  of 
Vote*. 
Voles 
oy  Ama¬ 
teurs. 
Voles  oy 
N  ursery- 
men. 
1 
Caroline  Testout  (h  t  )  . 
22 
9 
13 
2 
Kaisirin  Augusta  Vicoria  (_H  t.). 
18 
8 
10 
2 
Mrs.  R.  G.  Sharman  Crawford  ... 
18 
7 
11 
4 
Marchioness  of  Londonderry  . 
1.5 
5 
10 
5 
Duke  of  Fife . 
12 
fi 
6 
6 
Captain  Hayward . 
10 
4 
6 
6 
Margaret  Dickson . 
10 
2 
8 
8 
Jeannie  Dickson  . 
7 
3 
4 
8 
Marchioness  of  Downsdire  . 
7 
6 
1 
8 
Marchioness  of  Dufferin . 
7 
1 
6 
11 
La  Fraicheur  (h  T  ) . 
3 
2 
1 
11 
Spenser  . 
3 
1 
2 
Teas. 
1 
Maman  Cochet . 
21 
9 
12 
2 
Bridesmaid . 
17 
6 
11 
3 
Medea . 
12 
2 
10 
4 
Corinna  . 
11 
5 
6 
5 
Mrs.  J.  Wilsou  . 
4 
4 
0 
It  ii  very  satisfactory  to  find  that  if  the  positions  of  the 
different  varieties  in  the  above  lists  were  dependent  either  upon 
the  number  of  amateurs’  or  nurserymen’s  votes  alone  the  order  of 
most  of  the  sorts  would  be  but  little  altered.  In  the  first  list 
the  prominent  places  taken  up  by  two  of  the  three  Hybrid  Tea 
named  in  it  will  be  at  once  apparent. 
Roses  for  General  Cultivation. — As  all  exhibition  Roses 
are  not  suitable  for  ordinary  garden  cultivation  I  append,  as  usual, 
a  select  list  of  choice  kinds,  which  will  not  only  yield  good  flowers, 
but  are  also  with  very  few  exceptions  of  good  growth  and  constitution. 
The  varieties  new  to  the  selections  are  each  marked  by  an  asterisk. 
Hybrid  Perpetuals. — Light  Coloured  Varieties. — Mrs.  John 
Laing,  Madame  Gabriel  Luizet,  Merveille  de  Ljoc,  Baroness 
Rothschild,  Marie  Finger,  Jeannie  Dickson,  ^Marchioness  of 
Londonderry,  *Mrs.  R.  G.  Sharman  Crawford,  and  *Clio.  Medium 
Reds. — Ulrich  Brunner,  Etienne  Levet,  Dupuy  Jamain,  Fran9ois 
Micbelon,  Camille  Bernardin,  Marquise  de  Castellane,  Comtesse 
d’Oxford,  Heinrich  Schultheis,  and  Alphonse  Soupert.  Beds. — 
A.  K.  Williams,  Marie  Baumann,  Alfred  Colomb,  Ferdinand  de 
Lesseps,  General  Jacqueminot,  Dr.  Andry,  E.  Y.  Teas,  Fisher 
Holmes,  Duke  of  Edinburgh,  Victor  Hugo,  Duke  of  Fife,  and 
Earl  of  Pembroke.  Darh  Varieties. — Cbarles  Lefebvre,  Earl  of 
Dufferin,  Louis  Van  Houtte,  Prince  Arthur,  Duke  of  Wellington, 
Prince  C.  de  Rohan,  and  Duke  of  Connaught. 
Hybrid  Teas.— La  France,  Captain  Christy,  Caroline  Testout 
Viscountess  Folkestone,  ®Kaiserin  Augusta  Victoria,  and  Grace 
Darling. 
Teas  and  Noisettes. — Innocente  Pirola,  Souvenir  d’un  Ami, 
Marie  Van  Houtte,  Souvenir  de  S.  A.  Prince,  Ernest  Melz,  Madame 
Hoste,  Caroline  Kuster,  (N.)  Ethel  Brownlow,  Hon.  Edith  Gifford, 
Francisca  Kruger,  Anna  Olivier,  Rubens,  Madame  Lambard, 
*Maman  Cochet,  ^Corinna,  and  Jules  Finger. 
Bourbon. — Mrs.  Paul  and  Souvenir  de  la  Malmaison. 
Garden  Roses.  —  The  following  are  a  few  charming  non¬ 
exhibition  Roses  of  more  or  less  recent  introduction,  which  I  have 
grown  and  can  recommend.  Hybrid  Perpetuals.  —  Gloire  de 
Margottin.  Hybrid  Teas. — Augustine  Guinoisseau,  Bardou  Job, 
Clara  Watson,  Gloire  Lyonnaise,  Gustave  Regis,  and  Marquis  of 
Salisbury.  China.  —  Laurette  Messimy.  Teas  and  Noisettes. — 
*Beaut5  Inconstante,  Dr.  Grill,  L’Ideal  (N.),  Luciole,  and  Prin- 
cesse  de  Sagan.  Polyantha  —Gloire  des  Poljanthes.  Climbing 
Crimson  Rambler,  an  exceptionally  grand  addition  to 
our  climbing  Roses,  which  should  be  grown  in  every  garden. — 
E.  M.,  Berlcliainsted. 
