. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. that it had been constantly in bloom since June. They had only one line of it in the nursery this season and worked quite 5,000 stock from it, besides cutting blooms for all the principal exhibitions. So sanguine are they that they believe the variety will be the most popular bedding rose in existence when it becomes known. The color is a deep orange apricot, flamed crimson. The originators assert that it is a great improvement on the cele- brated Lyon rose, surpassing it in ef- fectiveness, as the color never varies. The bloom is held rigidly upri
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. that it had been constantly in bloom since June. They had only one line of it in the nursery this season and worked quite 5,000 stock from it, besides cutting blooms for all the principal exhibitions. So sanguine are they that they believe the variety will be the most popular bedding rose in existence when it becomes known. The color is a deep orange apricot, flamed crimson. The originators assert that it is a great improvement on the cele- brated Lyon rose, surpassing it in ef- fectiveness, as the color never varies. The bloom is held rigidly upright and is produced with a freedom rarely equaled among hybrid teas. The origi- nators say it is twice as free flowering as the Lyon and that it holds its fo- liage as in a true hybrid tea. Concluding their letter to The Ee- view, McGredy & Son say: "You will no doubt get a good turn of our new rose Colleen, on which the E. G. Hill Co. has secured the American rights. This is a great improvement on Killar- ney, being a better grower, freer bloom- ing anxl twice as double, with a greater depth of petal, brighter and more beau- tiful in color. There is no other rose in cultivation that has the grandeur of form that this rose has. The im- pressiveness of the flower, even in old blooms, is marvelous. It never goes off color, and retains its lovely shape and form in good condition longer than any variety we are acquainted with. It makes strong canes and holds its blooms rigidly upright. The E. G. Hill Co. gave it a semi-test last year and Mr. Hill was so impressed with its value as a forcing rose that he is giv- ing it full test this year, and believes- it will supersede every other variety in your country for forcing purposes, and as a bread and butter winner will take the lead as a market variety. You will no doubt get a good turn in this rose, once it is in shape for issuing.'' From which it will be seen that these, like other seedling raisers, have the modesty of the vi
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