THE BLUE ROSE AGAIN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 19, 9 November 1910, Page 38

THE BLUE ROSE AGAIN.

When our American friends make a real effort at description they generally produce wonderful results. With the rambling Rose Veilchen'blau as subject, the following description was given in a circular sent out by an enterprising American florist:— “It is here at last, and it has remained for this first decade of the twentieth century, which has seen the discovery of the North Pole, the practical application of the flying

machine, and development of many other heretofore ‘impossible’ things, to witness this latest triumph in the realm of growing things—The Blue Rose. The easiest way to describe it is to say it is a Blue Crimson Rambler—that is, imagine a climbing rose with all the (strength and vigour of the Crimson Rambler, covering immense spaces with its wonderous heavy canes and large, splendid foliage, and bearing immense trusses of roses, all the way from twenty to one hundred in number, but, instead of the gorgeous crimson flowers we all know so well, picture it in your mind with similar clusters of exquisitely beautiful violet-blue roses. The rose world is wild about the blue roses, and we expect even our enormous stock of the plants to be speedily exhausted. This wonderful production of the heretofore elusive colour in the rose world is a seedling from the Crimson Rambler discovered by a poor German florist. What a beautiful effect can be produced by having a red, white, and blue Rambler all trailing on the same porch, fence, or

trellis, forming the national colours, or even on the lawn, or in the rose garden. It is a mistaken idea that ramblers have to have a support; they can be grown very successfully in 'bush form.”—“Gardener’s Magazine.”