WHEN ARE APPLES AND PEAKS RIPE?

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 76, 30 March 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)

WHEN ARE APPLES AND PEAKS RIPE?

Apples are ripe when, on raising horizontally, they come away from the spur,

NEW KOSES OF 1934. Fairy Cluster is a single lI.T. of tin Dainty Bess type. Fairy Cluster maj prove fairly continuous in its flowering and to that extent be an improvement on Dainty Bess. Betty Prior is a pink hybrid poly antlia, slightly more double than Else Poulsen; and should form a good com panion to that rose. It received a certificate of merit, which seems we! deserved. May Robinson, also hybrid polyantlia is a deeper pink than Betty Prior. The form of the truss is particularly good, An exhibit of a climbing form of Little Dorrit produces a pleasing effect. Two of the fuller H.T.'s received gold medals. These were Phyllis Gold, a full, yellow rose of exhibition form. Mabel Morse still holds the field among the yellows in this class of rose, for Jules Potin, though a far stronger grower, is too uncertain in the colour of its flower, too easily spoilt by rain, and in dry weather by thrips. Mabel Morse, however, is often a poor grower. Phyllis Gold appears to be as vigorous a grower as Jules Potin, with strong foliage, and if it proves generally so will be very welcome. The other gold medal rose is Leading Ladj r . It is a white H.T., with blush centre, and is of beautiful form and delightfully fragrant. One may surmise that it will make a useful exhibition rose, but its value in the garden remains to be tested. The fragrance of Leading Lady is a strong point in its favour. Of the rest, Samuel Pepys is a white, with pale yellow shading, tall, and fairly well formed, which seems worth a trial; and Serenity, a yellowishsalmon, was noticeable. Also a deeper sort of Lady Inchiquin and Bertha Gorst, reminding one somewhat of Flamingo. The perfect crimson rose still remains to be sought. Etoile de Holland, with many good qualities as a garden rose, is ill-shaped, and W. E. Chaplin is devoid of fragrance. We have a now competitor for the position in Mildred Cant, which gained a certificate. This is a nicely formed crimson flower, with pleasant fragrance. i