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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12874, 18 August 1910, Page 4

A new rose named Juliet is described in English papers as a really remarkable novelty. Its blooms are large, of somewhat irregular form, but exceedingly, attractive in tho opening stages. Its pollen parent is Soleil dOr and its seed parent Captain Hay ward. The fusion of scarlet crimson and orange gold of tire two parents has produced an offspring whose petals on the inner side are a sort of old gold colour and the backs of the petals a beautiful carmine crimson. In vigour it is almost comparable to a hybrid sweet briar. The Japanese are not, if they can help it, going to miss the honour of being the first to .reach the South Pole. They are now energetically equipping a ship of 200 tons in which an expedition, under Lieutenant Shirase, is to sail'for. the Antarctic next month. All'th© members of . the expedition, with the exception of those who will undertake, the geographical and tronomical work, have been selected. . A number of Manchurian ponies will betaken. Lieutenant Shirase •intends to proceed by way of Bonin Islands and Australia, and expects to reach hit >oal by the* end:of January. The Japs hope to beat Captain Scott in the race for the Polo.