May  21,  1896. 
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Rose  Show  Fixtures  in  1896. 
June  17th  (Wednesday). — York.f 
„  18ih  (Thursday). — Colchester  and  Isle  of  Wight  (Ryde). 
„  24th  (Wednesday). — Richmond  (Surrey),  Reading  (N.R.S.) 
„  25th  (Thursday). — Hereford. 
„  27th  (Saturday). — Canterbury,  Southsea,  and  Windsor. 
„  30th  (Tuesday). — Maidstone  and  Sutton. 
July  1st  (Wednesday). — Croydon,  Ealing,  Farnbam,  Farningham,  and 
Leatherhead. 
„  2nd  (Thursday)  — Bath,  Eltham,  and  Norwich. 
„  4th  (Saturday). — Crystal  Palace  (N.R.S.) 
„  7t’n  (Tuesday). — Wolverhampton,!  Harrow. 
„  8th  (Wednesday).  — Canterbury  (Hospital  Fete),  Chelmsford, 
Hitchin,  Lee,*  Newcastle-on-Tyne,f  Redhill  (Reigate),  and 
Tunbridge  Wells. 
„  9th  (Thursday). — Helensburgh,  Woodbridge,  and  Worksop. 
„  14th  (Tuesday), — Westminster  (R.H.S.). 
„  15th  (Wednesday). — Ulverston  (N.R.S.) 
„  18th  (Saturday). — New  Brighton. 
„  21st  (Tuesday). — Tibshelf. 
„  29th  (Wednesday). — Chesterfield. 
„  30th  (Thursday). — Trentham. 
Aug.  5th  (Wednesday). — Chester.*  ^ 
„  19th  (Wednesday).— Shrewsbury.* 
f  A  show  lasting  three  days.  *  A  show  lasting  two  days. 
Any  dates  not  appearing  in  the  present  list  I  shall  be  glad  to  publish 
in  the  next  one. — Edward  Mawley,  Rosebank,  Berkhamsted ,  Herts. 
Rose  Pests. 
I  CAN  assure  “  Y.  B.  A.  Z.”  I  was  not  speaking  “  without  book  ”  in 
calling  the  grubs  and  caterpillars  now  worrying  our  Rotes  the  larvae  of 
moths.  The  sawfly  larvae  have  not  put  in  an  appearance  with  me  yet  ; 
they  come  later.  Of  course,  all  these  come  from  eggs  laid  on  the  buds  or 
young  leaves.  With  weevils  it  is,  on  the  contrary,  the  perfect  insect 
that  damages  the  Rose,  and  anyone  who  has  had  experience  of  these 
pests  will  recognise  their  “  work”  at  once,  for  they  eat  the  whole  bud  up 
bodily,  and  often  the  surrounding  bark  as  well. 
I  heard  lately  from  a  correspondent  a  dismal  account  of  the  havoc 
wrought  on  his  standard  Teas  directly  after  pruning,  in  some  cases  the 
whole  bark  of  the  Rose,  buds  and  all,  being  devoured.  This  gentleman 
was  possessed  of  a  book,  to  which  modesty  forbids  me  further  to  allude, 
on  consulting  which  (too  late  for  the  salvation  of  his  Roses,  but  not  for 
vengeance)  he  and  his  gardener  sallied  forth  after  dark  with  a  lantern, 
and  bagged  sixty-three  weevils  (I  think  it  was)  the  first  night  on  a  few 
plants.  He  will  know  the  work  of  Otiorhynchus  next  year  as  soon  as  he 
sees  it. 
Some  gardeners  do  not  know  the  value  of  the  advice  “  go  at  night 
with  a  lantern.”  It  is  not  only  the  best  remedy  for  weevils,  but  also  in 
many  cases  for  slugs,  snails,  and  earwigs. — W.  R.  Raillem. 
If  anyone  wishes  to  fully  appreciate  Mr.  Foster-Melliar’s  practical 
book  on  Roses  they  have  only  to  read  his  theories  as  the  season  advances. 
His  chapter  on  “  Pests”  is  a  good  one  to  read  just  now. — H.  Y.  M. 
Roses  Changing. 
I  have  a  retractation  to  make  ;  and,  judging  from  to-day’s  Journal, 
it  is  quite  time  to  make  it.  I  said  to  my  friends  the  Reading  gardeners, 
and  “  our  Journal  ”  has  done  me  the  honour  to  reproduce  my  remarks 
(Journal  of  Horticulture ,  page  418)  that  I  budded  climbing  Devoniensis 
on  a  Cheshunt  Hybrid,  and  the  result  was  a  crimson  Rose,  and  that 
a  branch  had  been  sent  to  Mr.  George  Paul.  He  had  it  worked,  and 
reported  the  word  R.  M.  Henriette.  I  still  held  out — I  was  so  sure  I 
had  taken  the  bud  from  a  Devoniensis — when  my  friend,  and,  I  am 
glad  to  say,  neighbour,  Mr.  Strange  of  Aldermaston,  came  to  look 
at  it.  He  said  at  once,  “  R.  M.  H.  1  ”  I  said,  “  Impossible  1  ”  He  said, 
“  Examine  your  Devoniensis  parent.”  I  did  so,  and  found  a  R.  M.  H. 
trained  into  the  midst  of  it,  so  that  I  could  hardly  see  which  was  which. 
This  quite  explained  matters,  and  I  think  of  never  being  positive  again. 
I  did  think  all  along  that  the  thing  impossible,  but  before  this  could  not 
see  my  way  out  of  it.  Will  Mr.  Built  of  Birmingham  forgive  me  if  I 
suggest,  in  his  case,  some  similar  error  ?  1  believe  it  is  unheard  of,  and 
almost  unbearable,  for  a  Rose  to  change  from  yellow  to  scarlet  any 
more  than  in  my  own  case  from  white  to  red. — Alan  Cheales. 
New  Foreign  Roses. 
A  somewhat  remarkable  change  has  taken  place  with  regard  to 
new  Roses.  Until  within  the  last  few  years  the  autumn  lists  of  some  of 
the  foreign  Rose  growers  were  looked  forward  to  with  considerable 
interest  and  anxiety,  as  such  growers  as  Eugene  Verdier  and  Soupert  et 
Notting  collected  together  from  the  various  districts  of  France  the 
names  of  those  Roses  which  were  announced  for  distribution  each 
autumn.  The  plants  of  these  were  rarely  below  25  francs,  and  it 
involved  a  considerable  expenditure  on  the  part  of  growers  on  this  side 
of  the  Channel  to  venture  upon  ordering  them  ;  but  they  did  so,  and  we 
found  them  chafing  more  and  more  under  the  loss  to  which  they  were 
exposed. 
It  was  not  merely  the  money  they  paid  for  the  plants,  but  they  pro¬ 
pagated  them  as  quickly  as  they  could  to  find  in  a  great  majority  of 
cases  they  were  not  worth  the  trouble.  Perhaps  in  some  instances  the 
growers  over-estimated  the  beauty  of  their  own  productions,  not  intending 
willingly  to  deceive;  but  at  last  English  growers  became  tired  of  this 
process,  and  then  resorted  to  the  practice  of  selecting  only  such  Roses  as 
were  raised  by  those  whose  previous  productions  were  a  tolerable  warrant 
of  success,  and  leaving  others  unnoticed  ;  but  as  one  after  another  of 
the  old  and  trusted  leaders  passed  away  this  resource  no  longer  availed 
them. 
When  Lacharme,  Margottin,  Guillot,  and  others  disappeared  from 
the  scene  of  action  those  who  remained  were  unknown.  Then  the 
French  raisers  appear  to  have  altered  their  plan.  Their  autumn  lists 
did  not  contain  the  announcements  of  actually  new  Roses,  so  that  when 
I,  in  accordance  with  my  usual  custom,  wrote  for  their  catalogues,  I 
only  obtained  those  in  which  the  Roses  of  the  previous  autumn  and 
spring  had  been  announced,  and  it  was  not  until  the  spring  of  this  year, 
and  after  a  second  application.  I  received  the  list  that  1  should  have 
received  in  former  circumstances  last  October,  and  instead  of  the  Roses 
having  the  magnificent  prices  25fr.  attached  to  them,  they  are  now 
priced  at  2fr.  50c.  and  lfr.  75c.,;  in  fact,  they  have  done  what  used 
formerly  to  be  done  by  English  growers  ;  but  1  am  told  by  those  who 
have  purchased  them  that  they  are  very  weakly,  and  hardly  recover  the 
treatment  for  a  couple  of  years,  so  that  we  do  not  see  any  of  these  quite 
new  Roses  in  stands  set  apart  for  that  class. 
In  other  respects  I  do  not  see  much  change  except  it  be  in  this,  that 
whereas  the  Hybrid  Perpetuals  used  formerly  to  have  the  greatest  share, 
now  the  Teas  and  Hybrid  Teas  far  outnumber  them.  There  are  forty 
Teas  and  Hybrid  Teas  announced,  and  twenty-one  Hybrid  Perpetuals  ; 
but  from  these  we  must  deduct  some  half  dozen  or  more  which  are  of 
British  or  American  origin.  There  are  besides  these  certain  miscel¬ 
laneous  Roses  which  cannot  be  classed  under  these  sections.  Some  of 
the  French  Rose  growers  have  taken  in  hand  the  Rugosa  Roses,  to 
which,  however,  they  have  given  a  new  name,  Les  Rosiers  de 
Kamtschatka,  and  it  will  surprise  many  of  our  English  growers  that  the 
reason  given  by  one  of  them,  M.  Cochet-Cochet,  for  taking  up  this 
section  is  that  of  the  losses  which  they  suffer  from  the  severe  frost,  and 
the  desire  to  get  a  hardier  type  of  Rose  than  those  which  we  at  present 
possess.  We  are  so  much  accustomed  to  associate  France  with  bright 
and  sunny  skies  that  we  overlook  the  fact  that  its  central  regions  are 
far  colder  than  anything  we  experience,  and  that  the  long-continued 
frosts  are  a  sad  trial  to  the  Rose  grower.  Of  course,  as  we  get  further 
south  the  case  altogether  changes,  and  the  difficulties  to  contend  with 
there  are  occasioned  by  too  great  heat. 
Before  passing  on  to  the  other  sections,  I  may  mention  that  the 
above  raiser  announces  a  new  Rose  (Souvenir  de  Pierre  Leperdrieux), 
which  he  has  the  politeness  to  inform  us  is  dedicated  to  a  great  grand¬ 
father  on  his  mother’s  side,  a  fact  which  must  be  most  gratifying  to  al  \ 
