July  3,  1S02. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
like.  Mr.  R.  Greenfield,  Jun.,  17,.  Bath  Street,  Leamington 
Spa.  First  Class  Certificate. 
Begonia  Masterpiece  (Blackmore  and  Langdon). — A  bold,  large 
double  flower,  coloured  deep,  rich,  glowing  crimson.  The  sub¬ 
stance  is  good,  and  also  the  habit,  of  the  plant.  Award  of  Merit. 
Begonia  Miss  Dorothy  Hardwick  (Blackmore  and  Langdon). — 
The  form  is  not  so*  good  in  this  double  tuberous.  The  petals  are 
slightly  fringed,  silvery  at  the  edges,  and  coloured  deep  rose- 
pink.  Blooms  full  and  high  in  centre.  Award  of  Merit. 
Begonia,  Professor  Lanciani  (Blackmore  and  Langdon). — A 
double  tuberous,  of  magnificent  proportions,  coloured  scarlet 
shaded  bronze,  very  bright  and  showy.  Award  of  Merit. 
Cattleya  x  Miss  Harris  var.  superha  (Stanley,  Ashton,  and 
Co.). — (C.  Schilleriana  and  C.  Moss  ire). — Magnificent  flowers ; 
sepals  and  petals  purplish  rose,  lip  of  a  bright  rosy  carmine,  with 
darker  veining.  First  Class  Certificate. 
Cattleya  x  Prince  Edward  (Sir  F.  Wigan  and  Sander  and 
Sons). — A  cross  between  C.  Warscewiczi  (female),  and 
C.  Schilleriana  (male).  A  lovely  flower  with  bright,  deep  rose- 
purplish  segments,  somewhat  revolute,  and  with  deep  bright 
purple  lip,  well  expanded  in  front,  and  with  yellow  throat. 
Award  of  Merit. 
Cypripedium  Goclfroyce  leucochilum,  Hessle  var.  (W.  P.  Burken- 
shaw,  Esq.). — A  richly  marked  and  netted  flower,  the  netting 
being  dark  purple,  over  a  creamy  ground.  The  substance  is  good. 
First-  Class  Certificate. 
Iris  orientalis  var.  Snow  Queen  (Barr  and  Sons). — A  most- 
useful  and  decorative  spotless  white  variety  of ;  this  handsome 
species.  Award  of  Merit. 
Iris  variegata  Sunshine  (G.  Yeld,  Esq.). — Certainly  a  most 
beautiful  Iris,  with  canary-yellow  standards  curving  inward,  and 
paler  falls.  Award  of  Merit. 
Lcelio-Cattleya  Martinet ti  ear.  Prince  Arthur  (Sander  and 
Sons). — The  long  delicate  sepals,  one  inch  broad,  are  bronzy-tea 
coloured,  the  petals  are  brown  and  wavy,  the  long  lip  is  folded 
over  the  column,  but  expands  in  front,  and  is  very  deep  purple 
back  in  throat,  the  edges  much  lighter.  Award  of  Merit. 
Lcelio-Cattleya  Aphrodite  var.  King  Edward  VII.  (Sander  and 
Sons). — A  superb  variety  of  this  noble  hybrid  with  undulating 
segments,  white  faintly  tinged  with  lilac,  orange  throat,  and 
broad,  open  lip,  bright  deep  purple,  and  fringed  edge.  (First 
Class  Certificate.) 
Miltonia  vexillaria  gigantea  (Sir  F.  Wigan,  Bart). — A  very 
deep  and  rich  form,  coloured  rose*-purple.  First  Class  Certificate. 
Miltonia  vexillaria ,  var.  Queen  Alexandra  (Sander  and  Sons). 
— The  lip  is  greatly  enlarged,  being  3  jin  broad,  and  as  deep,  with 
a  deep  indentation  at  the  apex.  The  colour  is  pure  white,  with 
slight  flush  of  mauve  at  the  base  of  the  petals,  and  the  column  is 
yellow.  Award  of  Merit. 
Odontoglossum  crispum ,  var.  Princess  Victoria  (Sander  and 
Sons). — A  charming  spotted  crispum  of  good  form  and  character, 
the  segments  with  fringed  edges.  The  segments  are  flushed  with 
deep  mauve,  and  bear  large  and  small  crimson  spots.  Award  of 
Merit. 
Odontoglossum  crispum  punctatissirnum,  var.  Princess  Maud 
(Charlesworth  and  Co.). — A  huge  and  magnificent  variety  of 
good  form  and  shaded  mauve ;  it  is  nicely  spotted  with  deep 
mauve.  The  lip  is  large,  with  brown  spots  and  yellow  base. 
Award  of  Merit. 
Odontoglossum  Harvengtmse,  var.  Princess  Margaret  (Sander 
and  Sons). — The  plant  bore  three  flowers  of  fair  form,  the 
segment  inclining  inwards.  The  ground  colour  is  pale  tea,  marked 
and  blotched  with  brownish-red.  Award  of  Merit. 
Odonto<ilossum  crispum  Her  Majesty  (Sander  and  Sons). 
— A  magnificently  large  and  handsome  white  crispum,  with  one  or 
two  reddish-brown  spots  on  each  of  the  two  lower  segments. 
Award  of  Merit. 
Odontoglossum  crispum ,  var.  I mperatrix  (Sander  and  Sons). — 
Of  good  substance  and  fair  form,  the  segments  very  distinct.  They 
are  white  at  the  base  and  coloured  purplish  mauve,  with  white 
edges.  A  showy  plant,  carrying  eight  blooms.  Award  of  Merit. 
Odontoglossum  crispum,  var.  Princess  Helene  (Sander  and  Sons). 
— The  flowers  are  large,  but  apparently  fragile.  Largely  coloured 
with  brownish  red  over  white.  Award  of  Merit. 
Sparaxis  Fire  King  (Wallace  and  Co.). — A  brilliantly  showy 
variety  with  flowers  nearly  2in  across,  yellow  radiated  centre, 
blackish  on  the  middle  of  the  petals  and  crimson  at  the  tips. 
Award  of  Merit. 
Sobralia  x  Wiganioe  (Sir  F.  Wigan,  Bart.). — The  sepals  and 
petals  yellowish,  and  the  lip  pale  purple.  First  Class  Certificate. 
Rhododendron  x  Lad 1/  Clementine  JValch  (John  Waterer  and 
Sons). — The  colour  is  pink,  with  a  suspicion  of  mauve  and  a  pale 
peach-blossom  centre  with  greenish  and  yellow  blotches  on  the 
upper  segment.  The  trusses  are  massive.  Award  of  Merit. 
Zygo-nisia  Polfceana  (Sander  and  Sons). — A  hybrid  between 
Aganisia  lepida  and  Zypopetalum  Gautieri.  The  lip  is  purplish- 
violet,  the  other  segments  the  same  colour  at  the  base  with 
green  tips.  The  raceme  carried  three  flowers  and  four  buds. 
Award  of  Merit. 
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The  President's  Introduction. 
The  ^  ery  Reverend  S.  Reynolds  Hole,  Dean  of  Rochester, 
presided  at  the  opening  of  the  Rose  Conference,  and  said  that  it 
was  happy  and  opportune  that  the  Royal  Horticultural  Society 
should  honour  the  coronation  of  Queen  Alexandra  in  the  present 
manner.  No  one  would  dispute  the  Royal  supremacy  of  the 
Rose.  If  you  take  the  three  great  qualities  of  excellence  in 
flowers- — colour,  form,  and  fragrance,  there  is  no  flower  to  com¬ 
pare  with  the  Rose.  Her  Majesty  is  universal,  from  the  humble 
cottage  to  the  millionaire’s  manor.  Queen  Rose  is  grown  to  per¬ 
fection  by  the  hewers  of  wood  and  drawers  of  water  quite  as  much 
as  by  the  lord  of  the  forest  and  lady  of  the  lake.  The  Rose  is 
suitable  for  the  shrubbery,  for  walls,  hedges,  arbours,  pillars, 
pergolas,  beds,  borders  ;  for  the  decoration  of  the  banquet,  the 
bridal  bouquet,  and  open  bowls.  And  we  can  have  Roses  grow¬ 
ing  al  fresco  from  May  to  December,  abundant  as  they  are 
beautiful.  Many  of  our  finest  Roses  had  come  to  us  from  sunny 
France,  and  it  was  meet  on  this  occasion  for  English  growers  to 
express  their  indebtedness  to  their  French  confreres  for  the  many 
varieties  obtained,  led  by  La  France,  the  queen  of  the  garden 
Roses.  But  we  have  found  out  the  art  of  raising  beautiful 
varieties,  and  are  not  behind  either  in  the  forcing  or  culture  of 
them.  Forty-five  years  ago-  the  Dean  had  inaugurated  the  first 
show  of  the  National  Rose  Society,  and  it  has  stood  well  by  exhi¬ 
bition  Roses ;  but  we  now  delight  in  Roses  for  the  beautifying  of 
our  gardens1 — the  decorative  Roses,  lovely  varieties  of  the 
Chinese  Rose.  In  conclusion,  the  Dean  said  :  “  As  Chaplain-in¬ 
ordinary  to  the  Queen  of  Flowers,  I  have  said  grace  before  meat ; 
I  have  read  the  menu ;  may  health  and  happiness  wait  upon 
both.” 
Mr.  Baker  on  New  Roses. 
Following  the  chairman’s  remarks,  Mr.  J.  G.  Baker,  late  head 
of  the  Herbarium  at  Kew,  delivered  a  few  sentences  on  two 
species  of  Rosa  from  the  S.W.  of  the  United  States  that  have 
recently  come  to  notice.  His  full  descriptions  were  written  but 
not  read,  as  was  the  case  with  most  of  the  papers,  but  each  and 
all  will  be  fully  printed  in  the  Society’s  Journal.  Rosa  stellata 
was  one  of  the  new  species,  with  a  habit  like  the  Scotch  Rose,  and 
similar  prickles,  but  a  marked  characteristic  is  its  three  leaflets 
at  the  top  of  the  stalks,  like  those  of  a  Potentilla.  It  is  found 
5,000ft  to  6,000ft  above  sea  level.  It  is  not  yet  in  cultivation. 
The  other  species  is  R.  minutifolia,  from  the  coast  region  of 
South  California.  Mr.  Baker  surmised  that  our  climate  would 
be  too  warm  and  too  damp  for  its  successful  growth.  Coloured 
plates  of  the  two  were  handed  round. 
Rev.  J.  H.  Pemberton  on  H.T.'s. 
Quoting  from  Mr.  Geo.  Paul’s  paper,  entitled  “Roses  Since 
1860,”  read  at  the  National  Rose  Conference  of  1889,  Mr.  Pem¬ 
berton  said  that  the  period  1860  to  1889  had  fairly  been  called 
the  era.  of  Hybrid  Perpetuals  and  Teas,  but  that  “  the  class  of 
Hybrid  Teas  do  not  seem  to  have  made  real  advance.”  During 
the  last  ten  years,  however,  the  H.  Teas  had  increased  100  per 
cent.  Formerly  the  Rose  exhibition  schedules  were  compiled 
almost  entirely  for  the  Hybrid  Perpetuals,  but  the  introduction 
of  Her  Majesty  set  rosarians  a-thinking.  In  recent  years  there 
has  been  a  steady  increase  in  the  number  of  this  class  of  Rose 
shown  and  introduced,  though  many  things  contributed  to  keep 
it  reduced.  Thus  no  truly  red  variety  was  admissible  among  the 
H.  Teas;  and  then  the  question  had  to  be  raised:  What  is  a 
Hybrid  Tea  ?  The*  varieties  themselves  seem  to  differ  so  very 
materially,  and  it  would  seem  that  if  introducers  are  not  very 
sure  to  what  their  Roses  belong  at  the  moment  of  distributing 
them  they  daub  them  down  as  H.T.’s!  H.T.  Lord  Salisbury 
differs  considerably  in  general  characters  from  Caroline  Testout, 
and  what  prevents  Gruss  au  Teplitz  from  being  classed  as  a 
China  P 
After  further  discussing  the  great  differences  to  be  found 
among  Roses  of  this  section,  and  of  the  restrictions  imposed  in 
regard  to  them  by  the  National  Rose  Society,  Mr.  Pemberton 
furnished  a  few  cultural  hints,  in  which  he  suggested  very  light 
pruning.  “  It  is  better,”  he  said,  not  to  prune  at  all  than  to 
prune  too  hard.”  Certain  varieties  seem  to  have  peculiarities  of 
-their  own,  and  they  do  not  all  like  the  Briar  stock.  He  had 
found  that  Mrs.  W.  J.  Grant  succeeded  best  on  the  Manetti,  but 
personal  observation  of  the  varieties  one  grows  is  the  only  guide 
to  the  discovery  of  their  likes  and  dislikes.  Mr.  Pemberton 
named  the  pioneer  raisers  of  H.P.’s — the  Dicksons,  the  Pauls, 
Bennett,  Nabonnand — and  referred  to*  the  characteristics  of  some 
of  the  finer  varieties.  He  concluded  by  pleading  for  H.P.’s  of 
bright  red  shades,  and  stigmatised  many  of  the  more  recent 
gold  medal  Roses  as  “  washed-out  things.” 
More  About  Hybrid  Teas. 
The  next  essayist  was  Mr.  Alex.  Dickson,  from  Newtonards, 
whose  success  with  the  class,  in  company  with  his  brother,  is 
unparalleled.  Mr.  Dickson  divided  these  into  the  following  five 
classes,  and  discussed  the  merits  of  a  number  of  the  leading 
varieties  in  each.  First,  he  took  Beauty,  Glory,  and  Modesty 
as  representatives  of  his  first  group,  the  single  Roses.  Secondly, 
bedding  Roses,  with  semi-double  flowers,  and  named  Marquis  de 
