SOME GOOD ROSES AT EDINBURGH SHOW.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 1, 4 January 1908, Page 22

SOME GOOD ROSES AT EDINBURGH SHOW.

Again the autumn show of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society has come and gone. After all our pessimistic outcry against the weather of the past summer, the show has proved to be the best held in Edinburgh for the past ten or eleven years, remarks a Scotch exchange. The first among new roses to catch the eye was Queen of Spain, a Hybrid Tea, colour white, tinged with pink in the centre, a rose that promises well, being something after the form of Bessie Brown, but more pointed and much greater substance of petal. Another fine one was Countess of Gosford, Hybrid Tea, colour pink, tinged yellow, a large, strong-like rose. Amongst yellow's, the following were fine:—Mdme. Vermorel, La Progress, Marquise de Sinetz, and some good blooms of Mdme. Ravary. Amongst the darks, Hugh Dickson was very prominent, and deservedly so; it is a fine rose. Another dark which was often and well staged was Earl of Dufferin, an old rose, but none the worse

for that; also A. K. Williams and old Alfred Colomb. The following were good amongst pinks:—Earl of Warwick, Auguste Comte, Mrs. Cooper, Alice Lindsell, and last, though not least, Mrs. John Laing.