. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ely concerned successful in either or both these districts may findthe conditions of the English Midlands unsatis-factory. Again, the Roses introduced intocommerce are a very small proportion of thoseraised and tested, and Mr. A. Dicksons estimateof 5 per thousand is probably a very high also that it is only by careful selection andrejection that true advance can be secured, theRosarian owes something like a duty to his suc-cessors to obtain and prove new Roses, and heshould not be disappo
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ely concerned successful in either or both these districts may findthe conditions of the English Midlands unsatis-factory. Again, the Roses introduced intocommerce are a very small proportion of thoseraised and tested, and Mr. A. Dicksons estimateof 5 per thousand is probably a very high also that it is only by careful selection andrejection that true advance can be secured, theRosarian owes something like a duty to his suc-cessors to obtain and prove new Roses, and heshould not be disappointed if he has to rejectthe greater number of his purchases. The some-what indiscriminate praise to which new Rosesare often subjected by their raisers and othersis, perhaps, partly responsible for the disappoint-ment often experienced by the guileless Annual also contains numerous articles onsubjects of interest to the Rosarian. Dr. Wad-dell professes to have found a remedy for BlackSpot in spraying with dilute formaldehyde ; has an article on the best Roses for. Photograph by W. J- 128.—new bedding rose ellen poulsen. with the lines on which future advance may beexpected, and M. Souperts warning not toneglect the Tea Roses is not without point inthis country at the present moment. More thanone speaker referred to the excessive number ofvarieties in our catalogues and gardens at thepresent day, and in a year which is said to beresponsible for the introduction of no fewer than300 new varieties of Roses the complaint seems,at first sight, reasonable. We must remember,however, that these new Roses have already re-ceived trial in the nurseries of the raisers, andthere is a limit to the time to which these trialscan be extended; further, the conditionsof a nursery garden are in many respectsessentially different from those of the ordinaryamateurs garden : a Rose that may succeed inthe North of Ireland may be unsuited to theSouth of France, an
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