ROSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 30

ROSES

Northland. —To plant the plot you desire to suit your diagram you would require about 20 bush roses with the two standards. The latter would be best at the ends of the pond, I think, with two bush roses on a line with them, two feet apart. Gpace all the roses at two feet and one foot from i the edge of the bed. The following are satisfactory kinds:—Angela Pernet, reddish orange, shaded chrome yellow; Betty, flesh pink shading to a deeper pink, reaching salmon at times; Betty Uprichard, orange-scarlet, soft *pink inside petals; Buttercup, deep buttercup yellow, flowers full and well formed, fragrant; Chateau de Clos Vongeot, velvety scarlet, shaded fiery red, a good dark red rose; Comtesse Vandal, salmon graduating to gold, outside petals deep coral; Covent Garden, a strong growing rose with deep crimson flowers, good-shaped buds; Duchess of Wellington, intense saffron yellow stained crimson, scented; Editor Macfarland, bright rose shaded salmon and capucine ; red, long buds on rigid stems; Elizabeth of York, a strong grower with full blooms of a cerise pink with a soft shade of orange sal* mon; Etoile de Holland, bright dark' red; Fredrico Casas, large red and yellow flowers, semi-double; General Me Arthur, brilliant crimson; Golden Dawn, sunflower yellow suffused with deep rose, good shaped; full blooms; Hadley, maroon crimson, one of the best dark reds; X of X, intense scarlet, semi-double; I^dy Pirrie, reddish coppery salmon; Lorraine Lee, rose pink, always in bloom; Mme. Abel Chatenay,carmine rose, one of the best of the old roses, very sweet scented; Mme. Eduard Herriot, coral red, shaded yellow; Mme. Pierre S. Dupont, intense yellow, fragrant; McGredy's Scarlet, large flowers of good form; Mrs. A. R. Waddell, reddish salmon, good; Ville de Paris, sunflower yellow, long pointed buds; Violet Simpson, shrimp pink, fragrant.