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November  20,  1902. 
JOURNAL 
OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE 
GARDENER. 
Mr.  Arthur  Turner. 
Mr.  Arthur  Turner  (whose  portrait  appears)  and  his  brother,  Mr.  Harry  Turner, 
together  manage  the  business  known  under  the  name  of  Charles  Turner,  The  Royal 
Nurseries,  Slough.  Mr.  Charles  Turner,  the  father  of  Mr.  Arthur  and  Mr.  Harry, 
established  these  nursery  grounds  over  fifty  years  ago,  and  “  Turner’s,  of  Slough,”  has 
had  a  notable  distinction  during  all  that  period.  The  famous  Turner’s  Crimson  Rambler 
was  sent  out  from  here,  and  the  history  of  that  Rose  was  given  in  the  Journal  of 
Horticulture  for  July  25th,  1901.  It  has  been  one  of  the  parents  of  a  number  of  the 
splendid  new  Ramblers  that  have  been  certificated  within  a  recent  date.  The  firm  of 
Mr.  Charles  Turner  has  cultivated  Roses  to  a  very  large  extent  for  the  past  forty  years, 
both  indoors  and  out,  and  their  specimen  pot  Roses  at  the  Temple  Shows  and  other 
leading  horticultural  exhibitions  have  been  excelled  on  very  rare  occasions. 
Mr.  Frank  Cant. 
Mr.  George  Cooling. 
Mr.  George  Cooling  is  hejjM  of  the  firm  of  Messrs.  Cooling  &  Sons,  seed  merchants 
and  nurserymen,  Bath,  and  has  done  great  service  in  popularising  the  garden  Roses, 
and  thirty  years  ago  ho  secured  and  catalogued  varieties  which  were  then  almost  lost. 
His  firm  exhibit  collections  of  the  best  garden  Roses  at  all  the  leading  Rose  shows 
during  the  season,  and  with  very  notable  success.  Mr.  Geo.  Cooling  and  his  sons  have 
given  considerable  attention  to  Hybrid  Bourbons.  In  1898  they  gained  the  N.R.S. ’s 
gold  medal  for  Purity  (H.B.)  at  the  Crystal  Palace  Show. 
GEO.  DICKSON,  Newtownards. 
ARTHUR  W.  PAUL,  Waltham  Cross. 
Mr.  Arthur  William  Paul. 
Mr.  Arthur  William  Paul  has  been 
associated  with  his  father,  Mr.  William 
Paul,  F.L.S.,  V.M.H.,  for  the  past  twenty- 
five  years  in  the  conduct  of  the  Royal 
Nurseries  at  Waltham  Cross.  Whilst 
thoroughly  conversant  with  hardy  trees 
and  shrubs,  fruit  trees,  and  the  other 
specialities  of  a  hardy-plant  nursery,  and 
•closely  occupied  with  the  management  of 
a  large  and  increasing  general  nursery 
business,  Mr.  A.  W.  Paul  has  devoted 
especial  attention  to  Roses,  for  which  the 
Waltham  Cross  Nurseries  have  always  been 
famed.  Some  few  years  since  he  recog¬ 
nized  that  the  limits  of  the  public  taste  in 
that  flower  appeared  to  have  been  reached 
in  regard  to  excessive  size  and  regularity 
of  bloom,  as  manifested  at  the  exhibitions, 
he  turned  his  attention  to  its  development 
as  a  decorative  flower  for  the  garden,  with 
the  result  that  a  large  number  of  varieties, 
remarkable  for  their  freedom  and  con¬ 
tinuity  of  blooming  and  exquisite  tints  of 
colour,  and  whose  names  have  now  become 
household  words  to  the  horticulturist,  have 
been  either  raised  at  Waltham  Cross  or  introduced  to  public  notice  from  these  nurseries. 
The  early  exhibits  of  these  varieties  in  masses  of  a  kind  by  Messrs.  Wm.  Paul  and  Son 
were  the  precursors  of  the  present  classes  for  garden  Roses,  which  arc  now  so  popular 
at  all  leading  Rose  exhibitions,  and  amongst  the  most  attractive  sorts  may  be  mentioned 
Corallina,  Enchantress,  Queen  Mab,  Sulphurea,  and  others  raised  at  Waltham  Cross 
and  Papa  Gontier,  G.  Nabonnand,  General  Schablikine,  Grand  Due  de  Luxembourg, 
Gruss  an  Teplitz,  which  Mr.  A.  W.  Paul  was  the  means  of  introducing  through  his  firm 
to  general  notice  in  this  country  from  the  Continent,  where  he  was  among  the  first  to 
recognise  their  merits.  Some  valuable  climbing  Roses  have  also  been  raised  and 
introduced  from  Waltham  Cross  during  the  same  period,  notably  the  Waltham  Climbers, 
Waltham  Rambler,  Climbing  Belle  Siebrecht,  and  the  new  Field  Marshal,  lately  figured 
in  these  columns,  which  was  greatly  admired  whenever  exhibited  last  season. 
Mr.  A.  W.  Paul  is  especially  identified  with  the  Rose  as  an  autumn  flower,  and  his 
lecture  on  this  special  phase  of  Rose  culture  at  the  Royal  Horticultural  Society’s  meeting 
in  September  last  year  was  very  favourably  received. 
GEO.  COOLING,  Bath. 
Mr.  Frank  Cant,  of  the  Braiswick  Rose  Gardens,  Colchester,  is  one  of  our  best 
known  rosarians.  He  is  one  of  the  oldest  members  of  the  Executive  and  General 
Committees  of  the  N.R.S.,  and  as  an  exhibitor  of  early  and  late  Rcses  he  lias  gained  a 
high-standing  reputation.  It  was  Mr.  Frank  Cant  who  first  exhibited  those  fine  exhibition 
blooms  in  boxes  at  the  Royal  Horticultural  Society’s  shows  at  the  March  meetings 
some  twelve  years  ago.  He  captured  the  champion  trophy  of  the  N.R.S.  at  the  Crystal 
Palace  in  1888  (his  second  attempt),  and  Avon  it  again  in  1890,  1892.  and  1894,  and  this 
memorable  Coronation  Year  he  has  carried  off  quite  a  large  number  of  medals,  cups, 
and  trophies — notably  at  Holland  House, 
the  Temple  Gardens  N.R.S.  Show,  where 
he  not  only  Avon  the  champion  trophy  for 
the  seventy-two  exhibition  Roses,  but  also 
the  first  prize  in  the  largest  class  for 
garden  Roses  (thirty-six  bunches).  The 
same  day  he  Avon  the  Gunnersbury  Chal¬ 
lenge  Cup  at  Richmond. 
Of  neAV  Roses,  Mr.  Cant  has  given  us 
three — Mrs.  Frank  Cant,  a  delightful  pink 
in  colour,  strong  groAving,  free  blooming, 
and  exhibited  by  him  in  almost  every 
winning  stand ;  Muriel,  a  charming  salmon 
pink.  Avhich  will  be  heard  of  more  in  the 
future;  and  Lady  Roberts,  a  delightful 
neAV  Tea  Rose  ;  seen  even  so  late  as 
October  7,  Avhen  he  completed  his  exhi¬ 
biting  for  this  year  by  staging  decorative 
Roses,  for  which  he  Avas  rewarded  by  a 
gold  medal  of  the  R.H.S. 
Mr.  F.  Cant  has  tAvo  sons,  one  of  whom 
Avill  shortly  come  into  the  business. 
