“THE DAILY MAIL” ROSE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2, 10 July 1912, Page 41

“THE DAILY MAIL” ROSE.

A NEW COLOUR. As the Queen came into the French tent at the Royal Hower Show, her attention was suddenly caught by a wonderful group of roses. It attracted her notice even though it lay on the other side of a bank of rhododendrons, and she stopped to point out the unusual beauty of the flowers to those who were with her. Most striking of all among these splendid blooms was the seedling rose plant shown by M. J. Bernet Ducher, which was awarded ‘'The Daily Mail" Gold Cup offered for the best new rose. The new rose has had a second christening. as “The Daily Mail rose,” a new name is added to the old. As it had been previously named Madame Edouard Herriot. after the Lady Mayoress of s-yons, there was some question whether ’’ was qualified to receive “The Daily e'ail ■ Gold Cup, but the question was appily decided between the committee judges and the “inventor.” It was agreed by everyone that no unxi' n is’ Kee jHing in the show came near t. Ihieher’s rose for superb quality, and J»at >t must have “The Daily Mail” Gold f° r the best new rose. On his side, . Ducher was cordially willing to gins rose the double name, and as anvil it “gures m the show and will figure in M.

Duetart catalogue. The rose win be offered to the public for the first time next November. Tew Tears to Produce. “We shall then have upwards of 10.000 plants ready," he said. “ ’The Daily Maß* rose has taken at least ten years to produce, so many processes of crossing and testing have been necessary. The parent of the fine race of roses, of ■which ‘The Daily Mail’ rose is the last, was Soleil d’Or, the well-known yellow rose, which I obtained by crossing the Persian yellow with the pink Antoine Ducher. Preceding the new rose were Beaute de Lyon, Rayon d’Or, and Lyons. These roses are all distinguished for their shining, mildew-proof foliage, freedom of growth, and tender shades of old gold, apricot, salmon, and other colours which one may call tints of the sunset sky. Many of them, including "Die Daily Mail’ rose, hare a sweetbriar-like fragrance.”

M. Ducher has been a “roseristo" at Lyons all his life; one of his father’s triumphs was “Baroness de Rothschild." —“Daily Mail.”