October  25,  1900. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
369 
BARR’S  TULIPS, 
Awarded  FOUR  GOLD  MEDALS  by  the  Royal 
National  Tulip  Society,  1896,  1897,  1898,  and  1899,  , 
and  a  SILVER  CUP  at  the  Temple  Gardens  Great 
Flower  Show,  London,  1900. 
Early  Single  and  Double  Tulips  of  finest  quality,  for 
early  forcing  or  Spring  bedding  outdoors.  See  full  Descrip¬ 
tive  List  in  Barr’s  Bulb  Catalogue  (free), 
may  FLOWERING  ‘COTTAGE”  TULIPS. 
MAY-FLOWERING  DARWIN  TULIPS. 
MAY-FLOWERING  ENGLISH  ‘  FLORIST  ’  TULIPS 
may-flowering  parrot  or  dragon  tulips 
For  the  finest  collections  in  the  world  of  the  above  beautiful 
decorative  Tulips,  see  Ba.rr’s  Bulb  Catalogue  (free). 
BARR’S  HYACINTHS. 
THE  FINEST  OF  THE  SEASON’S  CROP. 
Choicest  named  varieties  for  pots  or  glasses. 
12  in  12  Exhibition  varieties,  5/6,  7/6,  and  10/6. 
25  in  25  Exhibition  varieties,  18/6. 
Barr’s  ‘‘ Rainbow  Mixture  ”  of  Bedding  Hyacinths, 
a  special  mixture  of  great  variety  of  colours.  Per  lUO, 
16/6 ;  per  doz.,  2/6. 
Ditto  extra  large  bulbs,  per  lot),  22/6  ;  per  doz.,  3/-. 
Barr’s  Bulb  Catalogue,  containing  a  Descriptive  List  of 
the  finest  Hyacinths,  Tulips,  Crocuses,  Gladioli, 
Lilies,  and  all  the  best  Bulbs  and  Tubers  for  in  or 
outdoor  planting,  sent  free  on  application. 
BARR  8u  SONS, 
11, 12,  &  13  King  St.,  Covent  Garden,  Londoii 
Nurseries— Long  Ditton,  near  Surbiton,  Surrey. 
VEITCH’S 
GENUINE  BULBS 
Choice  DAFFODILS 
BICOLOR  EMPRESS, 
EMPEROR, 
MAXIMUS, 
BARRII  CONSPICUUS, 
SIR  WATKIN, 
MINNIE  HUME. 
VEITOH’S  8^  MIXTURE, 
Including  many  New  Seedlings  shown  at 
the  R.H.S.  Exhibitions. 
For  details  see  Catalopue,  forwarded  Post  Free  on 
application. 
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No.  1061.— VOL.  XLI.,  Third  Series 
THURSDAY,  OCTOBER  25,  1900. 
I^ose  Analysis,  1894-1900. 
^  HIS  is  the  fifteenth  Rose  analysis 
^  that  I  have  contributed  to  the 
Journal  of  Horticulture^  so  that 
there  are  now  complete  records 
available  for  all  the  exhibition 
Roses  staged  in  the  prizewinning 
stands  at  each  of  the  last  fifteen 
metropolitan  exhibitions  of  the  National 
Rose  Society.  For  the  purposes  of  com¬ 
parison  and  for  easy  reference  these  records  are 
arranged  in  tabular  form,  and  it  is  interesting  to 
trace  in  them  from  time  to  time  to  what  extent 
certain  varieties  advance  or  decline  in  favour  as 
time  goes  on.  They  also  show  how  the  best  of  the 
new  introductions  have  more  or  less  rapidly  come 
to  the  front,  supplanting  some  of  their  older 
brethren  at  one  time  regarded  as  indispensable  to 
any  exhibitor’s  collection  ;  also  bow,  on  the  other 
hand,  some  of  our  oldest  favourites  still  valiantly 
maintain  year  after  year  their  former  positions, 
while  others  continue  to  dispute  the  ground  they 
had  gained  inch  by  inch  with  the  new  comers.  In 
the  present  analysis,  however,  only  the  records  for 
the  last  seven  years  are  taken  into  consideration,  as 
it  has  been  Lund  that  a  period  of  seven  or  eight 
years  yields,  as  a  rule,  the  most  satisfactory 
results  in  the  case  of  the  established  sorts,  which 
y,  ^  <  I  1 
,.oo-fr\nrtbo  r\(  fhA  variflf.ipa 
mentioned  in  the  tables. 
The  Rose  season  of  the  present  year  again  proved 
rather  a  late  one,  but  as  the  date  of  “the  National  ” 
was  also  one  of  the  latest  possible  under  existing 
arrangements  the  later  flowering  Roses  were  better 
represented  than  would  otherwise  have  been  the 
case,  while  those  which  flower  unusually  early  in 
the  season  do  not  appear  to  have  been  as  much 
I  favoured  as  they  at  one  time  promised  to  be. 
j  Would  that  Mr.  Henry  Bennett  were  once  more 
among  us  to  witness  the  sustained  and  remarkable 
success  of  that  grand  Hybrid  Perpetual,  Mrs.  John 
Laing.  It  was  sent  out  by  him  thirteen  years 
ago,  and  from  the  time  it  was  first  in  general 
During  FIFTY-TWO  YEARS  the  “  JOURNAL  OF 
HORTICULTURE"  has  been  ■written  by  Gardeners  for 
Gardeners,  and  in  its  principles,  its  practice,  and  its 
price  it  still  remains  the  same.  One  alteration  is  per¬ 
haps,  however,  necessary.  Our  modern  methods  of 
production  have  rendered  the  price  old  -  fashioned, 
and  hence  in  order  to  meet  the  wishes  of  the 
present  generation  of  Gardeners  the  ‘‘  JOURNAL 
OF  HORTICULTURE"  will  hereafter  be  sold  for 
TWOPENCE  instead  of  Threepence- 
