THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD ROSE NOTES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1666, 3 February 1904, Page 70

THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD

ROSE NOTES

The special rose number of the “Journal of Horticulture” contains, in addi- , tion. to its annual: rose analysis; portraits of some of the leading rosarians of Jin**? land, with short biographies of these gentlemen. -The Very Rev. the Dean of itochester heads the ii'st. : He is the president of the National Rose Society, and founded this excellent society some 40 years ago. Dean Hi>le is now in ais 85th year, but still takes an intense interest in the guoen of flowers. The Rev. C. H. Bulmer founded the West of England Rose Society long before the N.R.S. was known. The Rev. A. FosfcerMelliar is a genuine amateur, and during the last 20 ■ years nas been a very successful exhibitor .of roses. The Rev. F. Page-Robertg is tne .rector of Strathfieldsay. Hampshire. He is an exhibitor of roses, < €fid attends to all the plants himself. Tlie most successful rose ex-

hibitor amongst clerical gentlemen is ~ the Rev. J. H. Pemberton, who lives near London. He grows 40u0 roses, and, with hia devoted sister, except a little of the digging and hoeing, uoes all the necessary cultivation. He has been among roses eince a child. Since June, 1896, he exhibited 49 times, ana won 48 prizes, including two challenge trophies and two ■i; oupa and medals. xne other leaning amateur rosarians wno are mentioned are Messrs Mawley, Urn way, Jopes and Herbert E. Molyneux. • It will be noticed that five of the eight gentlemen mentioned are clergymen; ... The annual analyses of roses wnicn have been most successful in taxing prizes at the N.R.S. of imgland's exnibition is always looked forward to by ife rose^growers niot only in the Mother r* Country, but also here. But it should be itemembened that there are a few f: varieties of> roses which do better in England than they do here, and so vice versa. Of the hybrid perpetuals and hybrid teas, 68 kinds are listed. Space only permits of the naming of thte first 20 in these sections. They are given in > the order or position of the present an-alysis:-—Bessie Brown. Mrs John Laing, Caroline Testout. Ulrich Brunner. Marquise Litta., Mrs W. J. Grant. Mr 3 R. G. Sharman Crawford. Kaiserin Augus-

.7. t\ Viotoria. La France. A. K. Williams. Gustave Piganeau. Her Majesty, Madame >v Gabriel Luizet. Captain Hayward, e>uv. zanne M. Rodocanachi. Horace Vernet, Frau Karl Druscnki, Mildred Grant, White Lady, and Helen Keller. Frau Karl Druschki and Mildren Grant, being new varieties, are low down on tne list; next year they will be more generally, shown. and will stand much higner in the analysis. Only 32 teas and Noisettes are listed, and the first 20 are also placed in their ; >relative positons—Mamam Gochet, Catherine Mermet, White Maman Cochet, The Bride, Mrs Edward Mawley, Com- . tesso de Nadaillac, Souvenir de S. A. Prince, Madame ' Cusin, Innocente nrala, Madame Horie. BHdesmaid, Medea, Souvenir d'un Ami, Souvenir d’Elioe pardon, Muriel Grahame, Madame de Watteville, Marecnal Niol, Cleopatra, Ernest Metz, and Marie Van Houtte. Many of the varieties mentioned in -ne two lists, as above, stand well in ‘ xne Argue” audit of Lv=t May, but it is singular that five of “The Argue" twelve,do ■not arm ear in the English analysis: these are Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, Cloth of " Gold, Prince Camille de Rohan. Madame Ciambard, and Ninbetas. But it should be remembered that the last summer in : England was by no means favourable for . 7 .many kinds of roses. » . A special audit-of the newer hybrid perpetuals and hybrid teas places the following in their "order of merit Mildred Grant, Bessie Brown, Frau Karl Drusohlu, Florence Pemberton, Alice Lindsell, Ulster, Duchess.'of Portland, Papa Lambert, Ben Cant; Glauvs Harkness, Lady : Mdyra Beau Clerc, Mrs Cocker, Edith Dombrain, and Mamie. In teas, Mrs Edward Mawley, Souvenir de Pierre Notv ting, and Lady Roberts.

Exhibition roses that are . also good garden varieties are:—Hybrid Perpetnale —White—Fran Karl Druschki. Pink— KfMrs John Laing, Mrs It. G. Sharman Crawford. . Crimson—Ulrich * Brunner, v.-Fisher Holmes, Alfred Colomb, Captain ;V Hayward. ' Rose—Suzanna M. Rodocanjachi'. - Dark Crimson—Prince Arthur, ; f-Prince C. de Rohan, Charles Lefebvro, . Ben Cant. Hybrid Teas. —White —Kai- & serin Augusta Victoria. Pink—La France, Caroline Testout. Carmine Rose —Marquise Litta. Teas.—White—White ; ' Maman Cochet, Souvenir de S. A. Prince. - Pip.k—Maman Cochet, Souvenir d'un Ami, Mrs E. Mawloy. Yellow—Marie Van Houtte, Madame Hoste, Souvenir de Pierre Notting.