NEW ROSES.
At the Royal Horticultural Society’s Show, held on September 25, four new' roses won awards of merit, of which George Dickson is one of the finest roses introduced in recent years. It. adds to the continuous flowering habit of the hybrid tea a deep velvety crimson colour, strong scent, fine form, and great substance, more generally associated with the hybrid jierpetuals. Mrs AlaeKellar is a large lemon yellow, and Ed. Bohanc a bright crimson hybrid tea. These three are Irish raised roses shown by Alessrs. A. Dickson. Messrs G. Paul (Cheshunt) won an .award with Little Dorrit, a pretty garden rose combining shades of apricot and crimson, which won a medal at the last qjjtow of the National Rose Society.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 20, 13 November 1912, Page 41
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122NEW ROSES. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 20, 13 November 1912, Page 41
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