ROSES AT BOTANICAL GARDENS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 13

ROSES AT BOTANICAL GARDENS

Not only those interested in flowers, but all lovers of beauty, are advised to visit the Botanical Gardens, where the roses are now in bloom. Roses combine in the highest degree loveliness of colour and of form, whether in the bud or full blown, and especially, when seen growing in beds. Roses are this year about a fortnight later than usual in flowering, and are now at their best. To the enthusiastic gardener a visit to the Botanical Gardens is specially recommended, as this is an opportune time for him-to select next season's plantings. In addition, he will be able to see what varieties have proved themselves ■worthy of the cataloguers' enthusiasm. Some of the varieties at,the Gardens were introduced as long ago as 1896, and others have been in cultivatioa only during the past two years. Of all. the roses the most popular and the most satisfactory for garden culture is.. Shot Silk, which was introduced by Alex. Dickson and Son in 1924 and was awarded the gold medal of the National Rose Society in 1923. Upwards of fifty specimens of this rose are in bloom at the Botanical Gardens. Colour Bright, cerise overshot with salmon orange, is another attractive rose. Somewhat similar in colour to Colour Bright is Desmond Johnston. Among the thirty beds in full blooms at the Gardens, other outstanding varieties are Souvenir de Georges Peinet (pink), Emma Wright (coppery orange), EthelSomerset (shell pink), Mabel Morse (pink), Betty Uprichard (coppery orange), Sinstar (orange yellow), Lady Inchiquin (reddish rose or vermilion pink), Etoile de Hallande (best red rose, bright dark red), Mrs. Henry Morse (bright red), Key. F. Page Roberts (a gold medal rose, yellow), K. of K. (a great improvement on Red Letter Day, crimson), Chas. E. Shea (bright pink), Antoine Revoire (rose flesh in yellow ground), Hugh Dickson (scarlet), Mrs. Herbert Stevens (white), of which there are 500 blooms in on» bed, Lady Hillingdon (apiicot yellow), Madame Edouard Herriott (coral red), the "Daily Mail" rose, Covent Garden (coral red), a good bedder, Lady Pirie .(fawn and copper), and Los Angeles (pink touched with copper).