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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  ANI)  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
October  2,  1902. 
Hybrid  Perpetual  Roses. 
The  rather  cold  and  wet  season  has  been  favourable  to 
the  growth  and  flowering  of  Hybrid  Perpetual  Roses  in  the 
north  of  England.  In  this  garden  they  have  not  flowered 
so  freely,  or  produced  such  fine  blooms,  for  several  years. 
The  same  result  has  been  noticed  in  other  gardens,  and 
two  large  growers  recently  informed  me  that  their  H.P.’s 
had  done  splendidly,  but  just  the  reverse  with  the  Tea 
Roses.  The  flowering  season  has  been  quite  a  fortnight 
later  than  it  usually  is.  The  weather  at  that  time  being 
cool,  with  not  much  sun  or  rain,  the  blooms  remained  a 
long  time  in  good  condition,  keeping  the  colours  so  well. 
Strange  to  say,  that  while  so  many  fruit  and  other 
trees  have  been  so  badly  infested  with  aphides  and  other 
pest,  our  Roses  have  not  been  so  clean  for  a  long  time. 
They  are  in  rather  a  sheltered  position,  and  this  may  have 
had  something  to  do  with  it.  Spraying  with  quassia  ex¬ 
tract  periodically  will  generally  keep  them  clean,  but  this 
season  only  one  application  has  been  found  necessary,  early 
in  the  season.  The  maggot,  too,  which  so  sadly  disfigures 
the  “  Queen  of  Flowers  ”  very  often,  has  not  been  so  pre¬ 
valent  this  season.  The  bulk  of  our  Hybrid  Perpetuals  are 
arranged  on  a  border  one  hundred  yards  long.  They  are 
planted  in  groups,  one  variety  only  in  each  group.  By  this 
method  of  planting  the  characters  of  each  variety  may  be 
better  noticed,  as  well  as  the  colour  and  form  of  the  flowers. 
Nearly  all  Roses  in  this  section  have  done  well.  I  should 
like,  however,  to  mention  a  few  varieties  that  have  been 
particularly  good.  Mrs.  John  Laing,  which  is  always  good, 
has  excelled  itself,  producing  some  really  beautiful  blooms  of 
fine  form.  Amongst  Hybrid  Perpetuals  this  is  my  favourite 
Rose,  which  is  the  reason  of  it  coming  first  in  the  list. 
Writing  recently  in  the  Journal  on  Roses  for  cutting,  “  H.  D.” 
puts  this  Rose  first  on  his  list,  so  perhaps  he  may  consider 
it  the  best  for  that  purpose.  In  Messrs.  B.  R'.  Cant  and  Sons’ 
catalogue  is  the  following  description  :  “  Soft  pink  colour, 
very  large  and  fine  form,  a  good  grower  and  abundant 
bloomer,  quite  one  of  the  very  best  varieties  for  all  purposes, 
and  cannot  be  too  highly  recommended.” 
Violet  Bouyer  is  a  Rose  that  I  have  not  had  a  very 
good  opinion  of  until  this  year.  There  is  not  much  substance 
in  the  blooms,  and  they  are  so  much  affected  by  the  weather. 
This  year  it  has  given  some  very  chaste  blooms  of  good 
shape.  The  strong  growing  Margaret  Dickson  has  kept  up 
its  reputation  by  producing  fine  blooms.  This  Rose,  like  the 
Marchioness  of  Londonderry,  is  somewhat  formal  in  its 
growth.  The  latter,  by  the  way,  does  not  do  very  well  here, 
it  makes  good  growth,  but  nearly  all  the  buds  are  deformed. 
Another  white  variety  that  must  not  be  omitted  is  Mer- 
veille  de  Lyon,  which  has  given  very  large  blooms  of  good 
form.  Suzanne  Marie  Rodocanachi,  a  Rose  always  worth 
growing,  if  only  for  its  very  distinct  colour,  rosy  cerise,  has 
done  better  than  usually,  although  it  is  always  a  beautiful 
Rose,  and  is  very  pretty  in  the  bud  stages. 
General  Jacqueminot  one  of  our  oldest  Roses,  but  still 
a  general  favourite  on  account  of  its  bright  colour  and 
fragrance.  This  Rose  always  blooms  well,  but  this  year  has 
produced  large  masses  of  flowers,  weighing  the  growths  down 
to  the  ground.  In  Ulrich  Brunner  we  have  a  Rose  perhaps 
nearly  as  well  known  as  the  “  General.”  The  blooms  are  of 
quite  a  different  type  ;  the  growth,  which  is  always  strong 
and  clean,  are  stronger  than  usual ;  but  there  has  not  been 
such  a  marked  difference  in  the  blooming  as  there  has  been 
with  many  other  varieties.  These  two  Roses  are  amongst 
the  most  consistent  varieties,  nearly  always  doing  well. 
Louise  van  Houtte,  a  very  dark  coloured  Rose,  which  does 
not  do  very  well  here,  has  both  grown  better  and  given  some 
fine  large  blooms  of  beautiful  form.  Indeed  it  has  done 
better  this  year  than  I  ever  remember  seeing  it  before.  The 
same  may  be  said  of  Frangois  Michelon,  which  has  flowered 
profusely,  some  of  the  blooms  being  very  large  and  double, 
and  beautiful  shape.  Alfred  Colomb  should  have  been 
included  with  General  Jacqueminot  and  Ulrich  Brunner  for 
its  consistent  character.  A  strong  grower,  free  blooming, 
and  never  hardly  failing,  but  is  better  than  usual  this  year. 
In  Pride  of  Waltham  we  have  a  Rose  with  a  distinct 
colour,  rather  a  bright  flesh  colour.  Its  habit  is  very  like 
Suzanne  Marie  Rodocanachi,  and,  like  this  Rose,  is  very 
pretty  in  the  bud.  The  blooms  this  year  have  been  deeper 
coloured  than  they  usually  are,  owing  perhaps  to  the  dull 
weather  experienced  at  the  time  they  were  in  bloom.  Fisher 
Holmes  is  a  good  Rose  for  massing.  It  produced  a  large 
quantity  of  flowers,  but  it  is  not  of  a  very  pleasing  colour, 
and  the  blooms  are  rather  wanting  in  substance.  Etienne 
Levet  has  done' much  better  here  this  year  than  it  usually 
does.  Marie  Baumann,  a  Rose  of  beautiful  form,  is  rather 
difficult  to  grow  well ;  but  has  flowered  well  this  season,  some 
of  the  blooms  being  almost  perfect.  A  weak  point  in  this 
Rose  is  its  slender  stems,  so  that  the  blooms  hang  down, 
and  cannot  be  seen  to  the  best  advantage. 
I  should  like  to  include  two  other  varieties,  both  rather 
old  ones.  Charles  Lefebvre,  too  well  known  to  need  any 
description  ;  not  one  of  the  best  of  growers,  but  the  blooms 
have  been  especially  good  this  year.  The  same  may  be  said 
of  the  Duke  of  Edinburgh,  another  well-known  Rose.  It 
may  be  as  well  to  say  that  the  Roses  are  allowed  to  grow 
naturally,  and  very  little,  if  any,  disbudding  is  practised. 
— J.  S.  U. 
The  Farquhar  Rose. 
This  Rose  is  a  perfect  rose  colour,  but  at  the  Rose  Conference 
period  it  was  this  innocent  subject  which  somehow  or  other 
gave  rise  to  the  story  of  a  blue  Rose.  Our  contemporary, 
“  American  Gardening,”  publishes  what  it  terms  “  the  real  facts 
of  the  case,”  and  ends  by  saying :  “We  commend  this  information 
to  our  English  horticultural  friends.”  If  the  writer  of  that  note 
in  “American  Gardening”  will  turn  to  our  issue  for  July  3,  he 
will  there  find  “  the  real  facts  of  the  case  ”  in  print,  nearly  two 
months  before  they  appeared  in  our  transatlantic  contemporary. 
The  Eternal  Crimson  Rambler. 
“  Can  you  recommend  me  a  good  climbing  crimson  Rose? — 
now  I  don’t  want  Crimson  Rambler.”  How  many  times  I  have 
been  thus  confronted  at  the  shows  during  the  past  season,  I  would 
not  like  to  say.  Failure  with  this  beautiful  Japanese  Rose  is 
not  confined  to  one  district.  Two  of  the  chief  causes  of  failure 
are  planting  against  a  wall,  or  in  a  confined  place,  both  of  which 
this  giant  resists.  But  we  want  Rambler  Roses  on  walls,  and 
sometimes  in  confined  places  too.  Now,  in  “  Rubin,”  a  new 
competitor  of  the  Rambler  type,  we  have  a  good  Rose.  It  is  a 
good,  vigorous  grower,  not  subject  to  red  spider,  with  deep  green 
foliage  and  somewhat  larger  flowers  than  Crimson  Rambler, 
produced  in  looser  panicles.  I  have  no  hesitation  in  advising 
those  who  cannot  grow  Crimson  Rambler  to  try  Rubin,  and  to 
those  who  do  grow  Crimson  Rambler — well,  try  Rubin  also. — E.  J. 
Love. 
New  Roses  from  Waltham. 
Among  the  new  varieties  of  Roses  sent  out  by  Messrs.  William 
Paul  and  Son,  of  Waltham  Cross,  Herts,  are  the  following: — 
Waltham  Rambler,  a  hardy  and  robust  climber,  having  large 
panicles  of  rosy-pink  single  flowers.  It  resembles  Leuchtstern, 
but  differs  in  having  a  much  more  vigorous  habit. 
Corallina,  now  becoming  quite  well  known,  though  only  seen 
for  the  first  time  in  1899.  The  flowers  are  deep  rosy  crimson, 
shaded  with  coral-red.  It  is  specially  good  in  the  bud  state.  It 
is  a.  very  distinct  variety,  a  good  autumnal,  and  handsome  for 
massed  effect  in  beds. 
Sulpliurea  is  an  excellent  new  yellow'  bedder,  of  vigorous 
growth,  and  has  glossy  dark  foliage,  so  that  mildew  never  settles 
upon  either  leaves  or  stem.  The  crimson-brown  shoots  contrast 
beautifully  with  the  profusely  borne  sulphur-yellow  flowers.  It 
is  quite:  hardy,  and  a  fine  yellow  bedding  or  massing  Rose,  and  is 
said  to  be  very  fine  for  pot  culture  and  forcing.  An  Award  of 
Merit  was  accorded  by  the  Royal  Horticultural  Society  to  it,  on 
September  23.  We  are  indebted  to  the  raisers,  Messrs.  W.  Paul 
and  Son,  for  the  use  of  the  illustration. 
Each  of  the  foregoing  are  novelties  of  last  year  or  the  year 
previous,  but  amongst  the  new  bedding  and  decorative  ^Tea  Roses 
for  1902,  there  are  Chameleon,  whose  rosy  flesh-coloured  blooms 
were  quite  an  attraction  on  Messrs.  W.  Paul  and  Son’s  stand  at 
the  latest  Drill  Hall  meeting.  Fairy  Queen,  with  fawn  hued 
blossoms,  we  have  occasionally  noted  during  the  past  season  ;  and 
reference  has  also  been  made  to  the  new  Salmonea  and  Morning 
Glow,  the  former  having  flowers  of  a  bright  rosy  crimson  suffused 
with  orange  and  fawn,  and  the  latter  a  deep  bright  crimson  with 
light  salmon  centre.  The  new  Rose  catalogue  of  the  firm,  just 
published,  should  be  consulted  by  those  who  are  growers  of  Roses, 
and  who  would  keep  up  with  the  advances  that  are  being  made. 
