October  15,  1903. 
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Rose  Jottings  :  Varieties,  and  What  Not. 
I  am  about  in  time,  I  expect,  Mr.  Editor,  to  offer  the  benefit 
of  my  long  experience  to  your  readers  who  are  thinking  of  send¬ 
ing  their  orders  to  our  professional  brethren,  except,  perhaps,  in 
the  case  of  those  early  birds  (and,  undoubtedly,  they  are  right) 
who,  by  applying  in  good  time,  secure  the  worm,  in  the  shape 
of  the  best  plants,  and  for  certain  all  the  varieties  they  order. 
A  fortnight  hence,  more  or  less,  according  to  the  weather  we 
liave,  will  be  quite  soon  enough  everywhere  to  move  plants,  so 
unripened  and  succulent  as  the  wood  must  be.  I  am  the  more 
tempted  tO'  mention  the  varieties  I  have  myself  found  most 
useful  to  the  exhibitor  and  public  generally,  from  the  revolution 
-that  has  taken  place,-  during  the  last  few  years,  in  the  gradual 
displacement  of  the  H.P.hs  by  the  H.T.’s,  as  noticed  lately  in 
vmur  Rose  issue.  Nevertheless,  I  venture  to  predict  that  a 
goodly  number  of  the  old  H.P.’s,  especially  the  dark  varieties, 
will  hold  their  own  for  many  a  long  year. 
It  is  interesting  to  notice  how  hardy  the  H.T.’s  are  already.  I 
can  point  to  Kaiserin  Augusta  Victoria,  Viscountess  Folkestone, 
•and  Mrs.  W.  J.  Grant  as  instances,  from  several  specimens  I 
have  in  different  parts  of  my  garden,  on  large  bushes  in  superb 
bloom,  with  well  ripened  wood. 
It  is  astonishing  what  delusions  some  people  labour  under, 
especially  among  my  unsentimental  sex,  in  Rose  lore !  •  I  was 
dining  at  a  table  d’hote  in  South  Wales  the  other  day,  when 
across  the  table  there  I’eached  me  a  fine  manly  voice  (which  I 
heard  afterwards  proceeded  from  a  distinguished  general)  ex¬ 
pressing  his  opinion  that  “  He  had  quite  given  up  all  interest 
in  Roses  since,  of  late  years,  all  the  perfume  had  been  bred  out 
of  them!”  No'W,  I  appeal  to  the  public  as  to  whether  such  an 
assertion  is  a  fact,  or  whether  the  exact  reverse  is  not  the  true 
state  of  the  case?  Is  it  not  rather  to  the  infusion  of  Tea 
■“blood”  that  the  H.T.’s,  or  the  greater  part  of  them,  derive 
their  deliahtful  fragrance  ?  To  give  two  especially  noticeable 
instances  I  would  mention  Mme.  Abel  Chatenay.  and  the  new 
Robert  Scott ;  of  the  latter  of  which  our  American  cousins  may 
be  justly  proud.  Subjoined  I  give  a  list  of  (1)  H.P.’s  which 
will  in  all  probability  hold  their  own ;  and  (2)  of  H.T.’s  which 
are  most  to  be  recommended. 
H.P.’s  :  Alfred  Colonib,  Mme.  Rothschild,  Ben  Cant,  new,  too 
robust  for  present  wet  season;  Capt.  Hayward,  blooms  early 
and  late:  Dr.  Andry,  Duke  of  Edinburgh,  Dupuy  Jamain, 
Etienne  Levet,  Frau  Karl  Druschki,  everybody’s  Rose;  General 
Jacqueminot,  Mme.  Gabriel  Luizet,  Marquise  de  Castellane, 
Merveille  de  Lyon.  Mrs.  R.  G.  Sharman  Crawford,  superb  this 
year ;  Ulrich  Brunner,  and  Ulster. 
H.T.’s :  Antoine  Rivoire,  Bessie  Brown,  wet  season  spoils  ; 
Caroline  Testout,  indispensable  to  breeder,  exhibitor,  and  every 
class  of  grower;  Countess  of  Caledon,  robust,  grand  flowerer ; 
Gladys  Harkne-ss,  Irish  Glory,  delightfully  bright ;  John  Ruskin, 
Kaiserin  Augusta  Victoria,  Killarney,  Lady  Clanmorris,  La 
France,  Mme.  Abel  Chatenay,  Marjorie,  small,  but  charming; 
Marquise  .Litta,  Mildred  Grant,  season  adverse;  iMrs.  W.  J. 
Grant,  Robert  Scott,  White  Lad.y,  and  Viscountess  Folkestone, 
which  is  indispensable. — Herefordshire  Ixcetmbext. 
American  Roses. 
I  was  greatly  interested  in  Mr.  Raillem’s  note  on  page  2(>0, 
September  17,  on  American  Roses;  and  I  presume  that  he  is 
aware  that  iiractically  every  Rose  in  America  is  grown  on  its  own 
roots,  both  indoor  and  out.  The  amateurs  root  the  cuttings 
under  handlights,  jam-jars,  &c.,  and  having  had  good  results 
from  such  methods  in  this  country,  I  can  recommend  the  plan. 
The  American  nurserymen,  however,  strike  in  houses  and  pits, 
not  cool  pits,  but  those  with  hot  steam  25ipes  running  through 
the  beds.  Tlie  manner  in  which  they  turn  out  Roses  is  astound¬ 
ing,  for  one  can  buy  little  plants  pin  high,  out.  of  pots,  for  three 
cents.  The.se  bushes  when  received  are  potted  and  protected 
for  awhile,  and  then  jilanted  out,  and  it  is  a  sorry  garden  that  has 
no  Roses  during  the  season.  I  myself  this  year  have  seen  grand 
hlooms  of  Be.s.si6  Brown,  J.  B.  M.  Guillot,  Mme.  Pernet 
Ducher,  and  others,  on  jilants  That  were  cuttings  last  October, 
and  rooted  under  a  jar.  The  bushes  arc  now  1ft  high,  with 
thick,  strong  shoots. 
As  Mr.  Raillem  remarks,  the  American  marketmen  cut  their 
blooms  and  throw  out  the  plants;  and  does  it  not  seem  better 
to  raise  Roses  in  such  a  manner?  Why,  it  is  like  growing  double 
Primulas.  Respecting  Meteor  referred  to,  it  is  claimed  to  be 
the  finest  crimson  Hybrid  Tea  in  the- Ll’nited  States;  and  there 
ii  also  a  climbing  .sport  from  this  variety.  I  cannot  find  any 
reference  to  the  double  Fortune’s  Yellow  as  grown  in  California 
at  the  moment,  but  Lamar<(ue,  Solfaterre,  and  Perle  des  Jardins 
are  exceedingly  popular. — A.  W. 
Rose,  Meteor. 
This  Rose  is  well-grown  at  Waltham  Cros.s.  We  were  much 
im2n-e.ssed  by  the  all-round  merit  of  the  variety.  First  of  all  it 
is  vigorous  and  thrift.y;  the  wood  and  foliage  are  such  as  to 
insiiire  confidence  in  the  minds  of  even  inexperienced  cultivators 
of  i)ot  Roses.  The  flowers,  too,  are  large  and  well  built,  and 
we  write  from  knowledge  of  the  variety  as  seen  in  the  middle  of 
September.  Mr.  Wm.  Paul  omits  a  description  of  it,  however, 
from  his  list  in  the  tenth  edition  of  “  The  Rose  Garden.”  What 
its  failings  are  (if  any)  in  this  country  we  must  leave  for  others 
to  reiate,  but  at  iiresent  we  have  a  pleasant  reverie  of  its  thick- 
petalled,  rich  purple-crimson  blossoms,  so  freely  borne. 
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Sir  William  Jackson  Hooker. 
{^Continued  from  page  335.) 
II.  Glasgow,  1820-1840. 
“Early  in  Februar.v,  1820,  my  father  was  appointed  b.y  the 
Crown  to  the  Chair  of  Botany  in  Glasgow,  and  having  despatched 
his  library,  herbarium,  and  household  effects  to  Loudon,  to  be 
thence  sent  by  smack  to  Leith,  and  on  to  Glasgow  by  canal,  he 
severed  his  coniiection  with  Halesworth  and  the  brewery.  In  May 
he  jires^ented  himself  before  the  Senate  of  the  University,  who 
gave  him  a  flattering  reception,  read  his  inaugural  thesis  (the 
Latinity  of  which,  thanks  to  his  classical  father-in-law,  was  highly 
praised),  and  was  duly  installed,  -with  the  welcome  addition  of 
having  the  honour  of  LL.D.  conferred  ujion  him. 
“  Before  enlarging  on  my  father’s  success  as  a  lecturer,  I  may 
premise  that  the  teaching  of  botany  in  the  fii'st  quarter  of  the 
last  century  was  ver.y  different  from  that  which  now  iirevails.  It 
was  regarded  as  ancillary  to  that  of  Materia  Medica,  and  as  a 
means  of  enabling  the  practitioner  to  recognise  the  iilants  used 
in  medicine  when  there  might  be  no  druggist  to  apiieal  to. 
Furthermore,  it  was  required  by  the  princijial  examining  bodies 
for  medical  degrees  or  licenses  that  the  candidate  should  have 
attended  a  course  of  lectures  delivered  in  a  botanical  garden 
registered  for  the  purpose ;  and  in  these  gardens  the  iilants  were 
invariabl.y  arranged  according  to  the  Linnean  .sy.stem,  which  conse- 
quentl5' had  to  be  taught.  .  .  .  Throughout  the  course  my  father’s 
artistic  2>ou-ers  were  exercised  with  chalk  and  the  blackboard ; 
and  he  gradually  accumulated  a  magnificent  series  of  folio  coloured 
drawings,  e.specially  of  medicinal  iilants,  which  were  su.siiended 
in  the  class-room  as  occasion  I'equired.  I  well  remember  the  mur¬ 
mur,  and  even  louder  exiiressions  of  applause,  with  which  he  was 
greeted  on  taking  the  chair,  when  the  number  or  interest  of  these 
pictures  was  conspicuous.  Before  his  second  year’s  class  had 
assembled  he  had  imblLshed  the  ‘  Flora  Scotica  ’  for  its  use,  and  an 
oblong  folio  of  lithographed  illustrations  of  the  organs  of  jilants 
by  his  own  iiencil,  with  twenty-four  plates  and  327  figures,  a  coiiy 
of  which  was  placed  before  every  two  .students. 
In  the  course,  three  excursions  were  taken,  two  in  the  neigh¬ 
bourhood  of  Glasgow,  and  one  towards  the  end  of  June,  of  fiv^e 
or  six  da.ys’  duration,  to  the- Western  Highlands,  usually  to  the 
Breadalbane  range.  This  latter  was  eagerly  anticiiiated  by  a 
contingent  of  ten  to  thirty  students,  amongst  whom  were  frequent 
accessions  of  botanists  from  Edinburgh  and  England.  Further, 
to  stimulate  their  zeal,  he  habitually  invited  the  more  industrious 
students  to  breakfast  with  him  after  the  class  (which  was  from 
eight  to  nine  a.m.),  when  he  would  show  them  books,  and  give 
them,  from  his  store  of  duplicates,  specimens  of  rare  Briti.sh 
plants.  To  conclude  this  episode  of  his  life,  it  must  be  recorded 
that  his  succe.ss  as  a  lecturer  was  phenomenal  ;  his  tall  figure, 
commanding  iiresence,  flexible  features,  good  voice,  eloquent 
delivery,  and  urbane  manners,  are  vouched  for  in  every  obituar.v 
notice  of  him.  His  lectures  were  often  attended  by  gentlemen 
of  the  cit.v,  and  even  by  officers  from  the  barracks  three  miles 
distant.  The  students  of  his  first  year’s  course  presented  him 
with  a  handsome  silver  vasculum,  chased  with  a  design  taken  from 
the  Moss  Hookeria  lucens,  and  those  of  the  second  year  with  a 
richly  bound  copy  in  ten  volumes  of  Scott’s  Poetical  Works. 
Except  for  visits  to  London,  Yarmouth,  or  the  Highlands, 
botanising  with  Greville  or  iVrnott,  and  once  to  Paris,  he  rarely 
left  home.  He  was  at  his  desk  with  pen  or  pencil  by  eight  a.m., 
and  never  left  it  much  before  midnight.  The  late  summer  and 
autumn  weeks  were  frequently  passed  with  his  family  at  watering- 
places  on  the  Clyde,  usually  at  Helensburgh,  where  he  enjoyed 
the  society  of  two  neighbours  of  scientific  tastes  and  culture, 
James  Smith,  Esq.,  F.R.S.,  of  Jordan  Hill,  and  Lord  John  Camp¬ 
bell,  afterwards  Duke  of  Argyll,  father  of  the  late  Duke,  who 
inherited  his  parent’s  scientific  tastes.  In  1837.  he  purchased 
a  cottage  with  an  acre  of  ground,  ‘  Invereck,’  near  Kilmun,  on  the 
Holy  iioch;  a  lovely  spot  where  he  could  indulge  his  fondness 
for  gardenine.  In  the  touring  season  he  received  many  Knglish 
and  foreign  friends  who  took  Glasgow  on  their  route  for  the  High¬ 
lands,  both  to  visit  liim  and  to  avail  themselves  of  his  cxperienca 
of  roads,  conveyances,  and  accommodation. 
(To  be  continued.) 
