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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
July  4,  1901. 
can  at  oDce  judge  of  the  effect.  The  same  with  climbing  Roses  ; 
there  are  lines  of  the  various  sorts  trained  to  supports  aloDg  the 
parts  of  some  of  the  shrubbery  belts.  Clio  is  a  good  pink  H.P., 
which  stands  the  drought  admirably.  Aurora,  an  H.T.,  is  as  sweet 
as  La  France,  and  more  vigorous.  Exquisite,  in  colour  rosy-red,  is  a 
charming  Hybrid  Tea,  whose  merits  give  it  prominence  from  amongst 
many  others  on  either  side  of  it.  Conrad  F.  Meyer,  the  new  rugosa 
hybrid,  with  large  and  beautiful  piok  blooms,  is  as  promising  here  as 
elsewhere.  The  ripened  shoots  of  this  vigorous  Rose  ought  not  to  be 
hard  pruned,  otherwise  much  of  the  flower  crop  will  be  unpurposely 
demolished.  It  is  one  of  the  best  and  most  distinct  introductions  of 
recent  times.  It  originated  in  Germany.  Empress  Alexandra  is  a 
new  Waltham  Cross  bedding  R  >se,  and  was  named  by  his  Majesty 
the  King  in  honour  of  his  Consort.  He  wished  to  have  called  it 
Princess  of  Wales,  but  this  title  having  been  already  given  to  another 
Rose,  the  present  distinctive  was  chosen.  Besides  being  a  bedder, 
Queen  Alexandra  produces  blooms  admirably  suited  for  the  foremost 
exhibition  stand.  The  colour  is  almost  like  that  of  Gloire  de  Dijon, 
though  richer,  remaining  good  until  the  petals  fall.  We  must  not 
overlook  the  charming  Corollina,  an  all-round  useful  Rose,  either  for 
pot  culture  or  for  beds.  It  is  a  richly  coral-crimson  variety,  produc  ng 
great  quantities  of  blooms,  and  persists  until  the  cold  weather  ends 
further  growth.  And  the  new  American  Rose  Liberty  promises  to  be 
one  of  the  finest  for  autumn  use.  It,  too,  is  a  good  pot  Rose.  The 
colour  is  bright  crimson.  Field  Marshal  is  a  good  early  indoor 
Rose,  and  furnishes  a  des.rable  outdoor  climbing  variety,  with  brilliant 
crimson  blooms.  Nor  must  that  most  superb  new  H.T.  named 
Tennyson  be  forgotten.  Few  Roses  so  consistently  form  such  large 
perfectly  shaped  blooms.  Even  after  so  trying  a  season  this  hand¬ 
some  Rose,  whose  blooms  are  white  and  delicately  flushed  with  blush, 
still  maintains  the  highest  quality  of  flowers,  and  produces  a  splendid 
crop  to  boot.  This  is  yet  another  that  W6  have  thorough  assurance 
will  become  a  foremost  exhibition  and  ornamental  variety.  Amongst 
Tea-scented  Roses,  Boadicea,  blush,  with  violet  coloured  base,  and 
the  flowers  on  long  stalks,  promises  finely.  And  so  we  might  go  on 
calling  to  notice  S  >uvenir  de  Catherine  Guillot,  Souvenir  de  J.  B. 
Guillot,  Madame  Fabvrier,  and  others  as  fine,  but  enough  have  been 
enumerated  of  old  and  new  to  prove  that  Waltham  Cross  still  main¬ 
tains  its  advanced  position  amongst  Rose  nurseries. 
New  Roses  at  Cheshunt. 
When  objects  are  very  beautiful  it  has  become  a  common 
expression  to  say  such  and  such,  whatever  it  may  be,  is  “  a  dream  of 
loveliness,”  and  the  phrase  is  not  badly  used.  The  Roses  in  the 
“Old”  Nurs  ries  of  Messrs.  Paul  &  Son  at  Cheshunt  are  at  this 
present  time  something  more  than  a  “dream  of  loveliness,”  they  are 
magnificent  and  range  wide  in  their  variety.  The  visitor  finds 
resplendent  misses  oi  Carmine  Pillar,  grown  in  all  manners  of  form. 
A  common  mode  is  to  train  it  to  tall  wire  fences,  whence  the  plants 
present  an  even  Iront  on  either  side,  and  are  starred  over  with  their 
glorious  deep  carmine  flowers.  For  use  by  the  sides  of  long  wide 
alleys,  to  be  trained  upward  on  some  light  support  on  either  band,  this 
splendid  climbing  Rose  recommends  itself.  There  is  perhaps  no 
more  vigorous  grower  known,  and  the  leafage  is  beautifully  fresh 
and  green.  Another  variety  with  absolutely  the  same  hab  t  aud 
character  has  been  named  The  Lion.  The  flowers  differ  in  being  of 
a  richer  blood  red  crimson,  and  bright  when  expanded  to  the  sun. 
It  is  very  free  flowering,  and  will  no  doubt  come  to  fiad  considerable 
favour.  Yet  another,  after  the  style  of  the  two  former,  is  named  Wall¬ 
flower,  so  called  because  of  its  adaptability  to  clothe  and  grow  closely 
to  walls.  The  colour  is  bright  cherry-crimson,  the  flower  being 
semi-double.  Tnis  decorative  class  of  Rose  is  quite  the  feature  and 
speciality  of  Cheshunt.  Their  successes  are  distinctive. 
Here  is  to  be  seen  a  model  hedge  of  Rosa  polyantha  grandiflora, 
with  thousands  of  creamy  white  flower  clusters,  reaching  so  huh  as 
14  feet,  and  in  breadth  about  4  feet.  The  rmssiveness  and  the 
floriferousness  might  well  incite  envy  in  those  who  are  privileged  to  see 
it.  Such  a  hedge  would  to  m  a  handsome  feature  of  any  garden,  and  a 
similar  ornamental  fictor  need  not  be  beyond  the  possibilities  of  those 
who  would  but  plant  aud  bestow  careful  attention.  Our  illustration  of 
this  climbing  Rose  shows  the  size  of  bloom  and  habit  of  flowering. 
Rosa  polyantha  Pa\che  is  a  lecent  novelty  of  considerable  worth.  The 
flowers  are  pink,  borne  in  dense  clusters,  the  foliage  being  glossy  and 
exceedingly  pretty.  Euphrosyne  is  likewise  of  great  m-Tit,  aud 
adaptable  for  bush  culture.  It  produces  abundance  of  trusses,  the 
flowers  themselves  being  single  with  lovely  crimpled  petals.  Purple 
East,  with  Wallflower  and  1'he  Lion,  form  a  trio  of  most  desirable 
garden  Roses.  Purple  E  ist,  by  the  way,  is  a  name  recognisable  as 
that  given  by  Mr.  William  Watson  to  one  of  his  poems. 
The  Wichuriana  hybrids  are  now  numerous  and  very  attractive. 
Wichuriana  Jersey  Beauty  has  very  large  white  flowers  with  a  cream  v 
centre.  Thes-  are  thrown  up  nicely  above  the  foliage.  Gardenia  is  a 
sweet  double-flowered  variety,  resembling  the  well-known  Perle  de 
Jardin  Rose.  Alberic  Barber,  with  starry  white  flowers,  is  justly 
prized  and  used  iu  America  upon  graves.  AH  of  the  Wichuriana 
varieties  are  creepers,  and  of  a  habit  which  renders  them  of  use  in 
such  places  as  that  just  referred  to.  Wichuriana  rubra  is  one  of  the 
prettiest  so  far  as  foliage  goes,  and  is  exceedingly  vigorous.  Pink 
Roamer  is  yet  another  whose  merits  are  perhaps  now  fairly  well 
appreciated.  It  is  a  prolific  bloomer,  and  distinctive  too.  The  flowers 
are  of  goodly  size,  white  in  the  centre,  and  having  a  rose-magenta  edge. 
Perhaps  the  finest  of  all  is  Wichuriana  repens,  whose  large  single 
flowers  are  symbolical  of  a  Poet’s  Narcissus,  being  pure  white,  and 
bearing  almost  the  same  form.  It  is  a  charming  and  conspicuouely 
decorative  variety. 
The  Japanese  rugosa  Briers  also  claim  attention.  Messrs.  Paul 
have  a  much  deeper  form  than  the  type,  which  has  been  named 
atro-purpurea ;  the  flowers  are  very  rich  and  deep.  Giant  rugosa  is 
handsome,  and  specially  to  be  recommended  for  planting  in  somewhat 
rough  grass  land,  or  for  forming  hedges  ;  all  the  rug  isas  are  serviceable 
and  suitable  for  this  latter  purpose.  Blanche  de  Coubert  is  the  best 
double  white  rugosa  ;  Rosa  pomifera  is  a  decorative  species,  with 
truits,  or  “hips”  that  are  fleshy  and  palatable.  Mr.  G.  L.  Paul 
wishes  to  cross  this  species  with  a  rugosa,  having  in  view  the  produc¬ 
tion  of  large  and  probably  useable  fruits  lor  preserving.  Here,  indeed, 
is  an  ideal  ! — an  edible  fruited  Rose.  Then,  for  purely  ornamental 
foliar  qualities,  what  is  more  distinctive  than  Rosa  rubrifolia? 
The  foliage  and  stems  are  of  a  shade  of  red,  a  glaucous,  peculiar  hue, 
but  attractive.  Tne  shoots  are  flexible  and  refined,  the  foliage  being 
moderate  in  size,  and  one  of  its  chief  uses  within  the  last  year  or  two  has 
been  as  an  adjunct  with  floral  arrangements.  For  this  purpose  its 
usefulness,  I  hope,  may  become  better  appreciated.  Wichuriana 
variegata  is  a  delicate  but  very  pretty  variety,  which  I  ought  to  have 
men'ioned  earlier.  This,  if  grown  in  bulk,  would  contrast  splendidly 
with  the  foliage  of  R.  rubrifolia.  Rosa  Una  is  a  novelty  from 
Cheshunt,  the  offspring  from  R.  canina,  the  Dog  Rose,  and  a  Dijon 
I’ea.  The  blossoms  are  large,  single,  creamy  in  c  lour,  with  a  yellow 
centre.  It  forms  huge  cluster  bushes  when  in  a  good  soil,  and  as  it 
flowers  freelv  its  effectiveness  can  well  be  imagined. 
The  H.T.  Lady  B  ittersea  was  still  vigorously  abloom  in  several 
fine  breadths  of  clean  and  sturdy  plants,  with  their  long  stemmed, 
rich  crimson,  and  well  formed  flowers.  In  the  bud  these  are  charming, 
though  later  on  they  are  much  less  attractive.  It  is  truly  one  of  the 
best  of  new  Roses,  and  a  very  persistent  bloomer.  It  is  being  liberally 
grown  as  an  early  pot  Rrse,  and  furnishes  a  good  late  variety  for 
open-air  be^s.  Liberty  has  many  qualities  in  common  with  the  Lady 
Battersea  variety,  and  it,  too,  has  assuredly  come  to  stay.  Dawn  is 
a  magnificent  single  H.T.,  with  deep,  bright  pink  blossoms,  and  is 
free  and  vigorous.  It  should  prove  an  acquisition  for  massing  or  for 
loose  hedges.  H.P.  Rev.  Alan  Cheales  is  a  strikingly  effective  bedder, 
with  most  beautiful  rose  pink  blooms  ;  while  to  come  back  for  a  second 
to  climbers,  we  think  there  is  a  place  for  Conrad  F.  Meyer,  a  variety 
of  mixed  extraction.  Rosa  rugosa  was  crcssed  with  a  Dijon  seedling, 
and  the  remit  from  this  when  again  crossed  with  another  variety  gave 
the  sturdy  and  rampant-growing  Conrad  Meyer.  What  has  now  been 
named  the  Tea  Rambler,  a  Tea  crossed  with  Crimson  Rambler,  having 
the  Rambler  habit  and  Tea  foliage,  will  be  heard  more  of ;  and  so 
with  Polyantha  Eleanor  Berkeley,  likened  to  a  rampant  form  of  Rosa 
Mignonette.  It  resulted  from  a  multiflora  cross  with  Gabriel  Luizet. 
Rev.  J.  B.  M.  Camm  is  an  ideal  H.P.,  while  further  good  exhibition 
or  garden  Roses  will  be  found  in  Mr.  G.  L.  Paul’s  Riyal  Scarlet,  a 
dazzling  variety  when  exposed  to  a  summer  sun  ;  the  most  advanced 
scarlet  bedder  we  have.  Miss  Ellen  Willmott  is  a  new  Tea  Rose  almost 
white,  yet  faintly  tinged  with  pink  ;  it  is  very  sweet.  Leonie  Lamesch, 
a  rich  and  lovely  reddish-orange  miniature-flowered  Noisette,  and 
Eugenie  Lamesch,  yellow,  are  both  exceedingly  pretty  Roses.  The 
plauts  on  the  good  Cheshunt  soil  are  sturdy  and  clean.  But  we 
must  now  conclude  these  cursory  notes.  Their  object  is  to  show 
whit  the  well-known  commercial  rosarians  have  succeeded  in 
raising.  Brightness,  prolificness,  and  sundry  other  qualities  are 
characteristics  of  them  all,  and  a  great  future  seems  yet  to  lie  open. 
The  Cheshunt  firm  may  be  relied  on  to  uphold  its  past  traditions. 
Rose  Reve  d’Or. 
Few  Noisette  Roses  are  more  handsome  than  the  one  we  have 
here  chosen  for  illustration.  It  is  a  very  strong  climber,  producing 
stout  and  rapid  growth,  with  nearly  evergreen  foliage.  Other 
Noisettes  and  Roses  of  the  Gloire  de  D  jon  race  are  apt,  when  grown 
on  a  wall,  to  become  weak  and  bare  in  foliage  towards  the  bottom,  so 
that  all  the  blooms  are  out  of  reach,  and  the  plants  are  unsightly  from 
the  naked  appearance  of  the  branches.  This  is  not  the  case  with 
Reve  d’Or,  and  it  aids  considerably  to  its  merit  as  a  climber  that  the 
lower  parts  of  the  plant  are  fairly  well  clothed  with  foliage  and 
blooms.  It  is  not  liable  to  mildew.  The  deep  yellow  blooms  come  in 
clusters,  and  are  individually  of  good  size  and  form.  It  is  quite 
hardy,  makes  a  capital  standard,  and  to  our  minds  furnishes  one  of 
the  best  of  climbing  Roses,  though  sometimes  it  is  a  shy  bloomer. 
