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Notes  on  Some  of  the  Newer  Roses. 
[Concluded  from  jiaj/e  440.) 
Mamie,  the  last  on  the  list  of  H.T.’s,  first  shown  as  Mrs.  Conway 
Jones  (I  hope  Messrs.  Dickson  will  not  alter  the  name  under  which  a 
Rose  has  once  been  shown,  if  they  can  avoid  it),  is  a  Rose  whose 
manners  and  customs  have  puzzled  me  much.  I  had  a  pot  plant  of 
it  from  Messrs.  Dickson  in  June,  1901,  when  it  came  out  of  the  usual 
calibre,  and  had  sufficient  growth  from  it  to  be  able  to  bud  four  or 
live  standards.  The  maiden  growths  proved  last  year,  to  my  surprise, 
extremely  weak,  and  the  plants  no  good  whatever,  either  that  year  or 
this.  Later,  last  year,  I  had  a  bloom  on  the  original  dwarf  (I  suppose 
grafted)  plant,  which  pleased  me  much,  and  I  budded  three  or  four 
more  standards;  and  later  still  the  original  plant  sent  up  an  un¬ 
usually  strong  shoot  for  a  grafted  plant.  Once  more,  this  year,  the 
budded  standards  have  been  utterly  weak  and  useless,  while  the 
original  dwarf  plant  has  yielded  me  two  or  three  of  as  line  hot- weather 
show  blooms  as  could  be  wished.  Needless  to  say  I  have  taken  the 
hint  and  budded  it  this  year  largely  on  dwarf  stocks,  and  if  this  really 
is  its  preference,  it  is  decidedly  an  unusual  “  custom  ”  for  a  Hybrid 
Tea.  The  flowers  were  large,  of  good  shape  and  colour,  and  very 
solid  and  full ;  they  proved  to  be  decidedly  the  best  Roses  to  last 
that  I  have  ever  cut,  except  from  the  pure  Teas.  I  showed  one  flower 
at  two  successive  shows,  both  of  which  were  hot  days  ;  and  though  I 
have  often  mianaged  this  with  Teas,  I  never  have  done  it  before  with 
any  other  Rose,  and  it  would  be  very  rarely  that  one  could  do  it  with 
Tea  of  this  colour,  a  rather  deep  pink.  It  seemed  to  me  a  variety 
that  requires  hot  weather,  and  does  not  require  to  be  tied  up — both 
of  which  are  very  good  qualities.  I  think  it  should  prove  very  useful 
indeed  to  exhibitors,  and  would  recommend  those  who  have  not  yet 
tried  it  to  get  dwarf  plants. 
There  is  another  H.T.,  Robert  Scott  (Robert  Scott  and  Son,  1901), 
of  the  same  year,  which  Mr.  Mawley  did  not  put  forward  as  a 
candidate  in  the  new  Rose  Election,  though  it  appears  in  his  general 
Analysis.  This  Rose,  we  have  been  informed  by  the  raisers,  is  a 
cross  between  Merveille  de  Lyon,  H.P.,  and  Mrs.  W.  J.  Grant,  H.T. 
The  flower  bears  occasionally  some  resemblance  to  Her  Majesty,  and 
cannot  fail  to  raise  once  more  the  question.  What  is  a  Hybrid  Tea  ? 
Her  Majesty  was,  we  have  been  told  (hut  I  do  not  know  whether 
the  information  came  from  Mr.  Bennett  or  anyone  authorised  by 
him)  a  cross  between  Mabel  Morrison,  H.P..  and  the  old  Tea 
Canary.  If  so.  Her  Majesty  was,  by  birth,  not  II. P.  but  II. T.  But 
the  N.R.S.,  I  believe,  decide  the  class  of  any  Rose,  not  by  birth 
certificates  but  by  individual  cbaracteristics.  By  both  of  these  tests 
Robert  Scott  should  be  H.P.,  not  H.T.,  for  it  is  not  only  a  cross 
between  H.P.  and  H.T.,  while  Her  Majesty,  called  H.P.,  is  a  cross 
between  H.P.  and  T.,  but  in  a'l  its  characteristics  is  essentially  H.P. 
Nevertheless,  being  a  loyal  member  of  the  N.R.S.,  and  not  inclined 
to  play  the  part  of  a  “  passive  resister  ”  H.T.  it  will  be  with  me  as 
long  as  authority  so  decides. — W.  R.  R.vili,em. 
New  Rose,  Urania. 
This  new  Rose  is  one  of  the  productions  of  M.  H.  Walsh,  of  Woods 
Holl,  Mass.  A  seedling  of  American  Beauty  crossed  with  Mdlle. 
Suzanne  Marie  Rodocanachi,  it  has  all  the  good  characteristics  of  the 
American  Beauty  excepting  the  strong  cliarflcterisiic  fragrance,  and 
is  of  a  lighter  and  much  more  glowing  colour.  The  foliage  is  heavy 
and  waxy. 
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The  Ebb  and  Flow  of  Gardening. 
“Gone  to  the  dogs!  They're  marketing” — -the  answer 
verbatim  to  enquiry  anent  a  once  noted  garden.  ,What 
dogs  have  to  do  with  the  deplorable  decadence  in  many  of 
the  high  places  of  the  gardening  world,  unless  it  be  that 
much  growling  goes  with  it,  it  is  hard  to  say  ;  but  the  fact 
remains  that  the  perversion  of  grand  old  gardens  into 
market  growing  establishments  is,  unfortunately,  becoming- 
more  and  more  evident.  There  seems  to  be,  too,  some 
inseparable  connection  Vjetween  going  to  the  market  and 
going  to  the  dogs,  for  once  a  start  is  made  in  selling  the 
surplus,  a  run  on  the  down  grade  seems  quick  and  easy  to 
the  canine  ending.  Sic  tinn,sit  ciJtiria  Iwiti. 
The  marketing  phase  of  private  gardening  is  as  insidious 
and  infectious  as  it  appears  to  be  demoralising.  I’overty 
probably  started  it,  custom  oft  continues  what  necessity 
no  longer  impels,  and  example  spreads  this  commercial 
culture  until  it  appear.s  likely  to  permeate  the  whole  laud. 
Judgment  is  formed  on  personal  kuowjedge,  wbicli,  in  the  cafo 
of  gardeners,  is  often  gleaned  from  a  restricted  area  of 
observation  ;  and  these  remarks,  emanating,  as  they  do, 
from  a  district  where  a  form  of  marketing  madness  not 
only  runs  rampant,  but  is  highly  contagious,  the  trend  of 
opinion  may,  possibly  does,  reacli  tlie  other  extreme.  Alarket 
grbwers  and  nurserymen  have  hitherto  suifered  in  silence, 
but  with  high  rents,  increased  taxation,  and  the  addit'onal 
burden  of  this  illegitimate  competition,  the  wisdom  of 
seeking  protection  for  themselves  will  sooner  or  later  be 
forced  upon  them. 
Free  trade,  in  this  instance,  is  not  fair  trade,  and  with 
the  very  pertinent,  but  at  the  same  time,  very  bad  example,  of 
the  gardens  attached  to  the  residences  of  high  Government 
officials,  for  the  upkeep  of  which  certain  sums  of  public 
money  are  granted  by  the  Board  of  Works,  being  trans¬ 
posed  into,  practically  market  gardens,  should  be  sufficient 
excuse  for  broaching  the  theme  if  any  excuse  is  wanted. 
Not  only  is  it  that  the  market  grower,  pure  and  simple,  is 
affected  ;  viz.,  those  who  cater  for  the  vegetable  and  fruit 
supplies  of  our  city,  but  in  the  bad  examples  referred  to, 
local  nurserymen  and  florists  have  to  compete  with  nearly 
all  the  products  of  the  glass  department  from  these  places, 
including  plants  and  forced  flowers.  Anything,  in  fact, 
which  will  make  money,  althougli  the  family’s  supplies  are  con¬ 
sidered  ;  but  the  chief  eud  and  aim  is,  althougli  it  may  not  be 
acknowledged,  the  market. 
Seedsmen  suffer,  although  this  is  not  apparent  at  first 
sight,  but  where  large  batches  of  “  stuff  ”  are  manufactured 
for  the  market,  the  one-time  nobleman’s  gardener — still 
retaining  the  title  by  courtesy — who  is  now  perverted  or 
converted,  which  you  will,  into  a  market  man,  is  apt  to 
send  for  his  Aster  seeds  or  what  not  to  Germany,  and  obtain 
his  bulbs  from  wholesale  dealers  in  Holland,  anywhere,  in 
fact,  by  whicli  a  saving  is  effected.  Apart,  however, 
from  all  practical  considerations  which  are,  probably, 
powerless  to  alter  existing  conditions,  or  even  stop  them 
in  going  from  bad  to  worse,  the  deteriorating  effect  of 
marketing  in  private  gardens  must  always  be  a  matter  of 
regret.  Over  the  entrance  to  many  might  be  suitably 
inscribed  Ichabod,  its  glory  has  departed,  and  in  all  human 
probability  it  has  ebbed  never  to  return.  In  other  channels 
is  the  returning  flow  diverted,  and  there  is  more  than  a 
little  satisfaction,  if  not  compensation,  in  contemplating 
this  aspect  of  a  great  question.  Within  touch  of  our  large 
industrial  centres  the  number  of  comparatively  small 
gardens  has  increased  by  leaps  and  bounds,  and  cultured 
taste  generally  directs  the  disposition,  laying  out,  and 
planting  of  them. 
Great  ruins,  in  the  way  of  grand  old  gardens  on  the 
down  grade  have,  in  a  measure,  paved  the  way  to  greater 
glories  in  the  number  of  smaller  but  beautifully  kept  exposi¬ 
tions  of  taste  and  skill.  Needless  to  say,  the  bulk  of  these 
are  not  show  places  in  the  usual  acceptation  -  of  the 
term,  and  can  never  quite  take  the  place  in  the 
horticultural  world  of  the  garden  of  many  acres  and 
many  men.  Nor  do  the  head  gardeners  themselves 
fill  the  same  niche  in  the  temple  of  Flora  and 
Pomona.  In  many  of  these  pretty  and  often  picturesque 
places  privacy  is  so  rigidly  enforced  that  our  worthy  head 
gardener  can  only  show  off  his  handiwork  to  his  chums  by 
stealth,  whereas  there  are,  or  were,  but  few  of  the  high-’ 
class  gardens  to  which  any  man  with  a  right  to  the  style 
and  title  of  gardener  did  not  carry  with  it  the  right  of 
entry.  It  is  well  known,  if  seldom  mentioned,  that  the  pro¬ 
prietors  of  the  smaller  gardens  occupy,  as  their  gardeners 
do,  and  as  their  gardens  do  also,  a  different  niche  in  the 
social  edifice,  and  in  saying  so  there  is  no  reason  why  any 
disparagement  of  the  trinity  should  be  inferred.  These 
employers,  as  a  rule  are  smart  men,  and  smart  mastei-s 
makq  "smart  servants.  Thev  are  seldom  at  home  during 
the  early  part  of  the  day,  but  when  they  do  arrive  bring 
with  them  a  balance  of  those  electrical  conditions  of  vitality 
which  the  Stock  Exchange  or  directors’  board  room  fails 
to  absorb  ;  hence  the  head  gardener  or  his  man,  or  men, 
are  generally  prepared  to  finish  up  their  day's  work  pretty 
lively  when  the  “  boss,”  refreshed  by  his  cup  of  tea,  comes 
out  to  inspect  or  help  as  the  case  may  be. 
Wliat  the  employer  wants  in  gardening  knowledge  is 
usually  made  up  for— more  than  made  up  for — iri  his  ability 
to  make  things  ‘‘  hum.’'  and  his  gardener  requires  a  good 
deal  of  tact  as  well  as  push  to  keep  things  running 
smoothly.  Many  a  man  having  occupied  a  high  position 
