. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. d his interest in matters horti-cultural relatively unabated. So long as the Rose remains an object ofattraction, so long will the memory ofWiLLiAM^PAUL^be^treasured. For it is as arosarian that he is best known. Few, ifany, knew Rosesas he did ; few could moretruly gauge the public taste with regard tothem; few could grow them better; fewknew better how to display them to advan-tage. Comparatively early in his career wefind him advocating the culture of Roses inpots (thenanovelty), and inveighingaga
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. d his interest in matters horti-cultural relatively unabated. So long as the Rose remains an object ofattraction, so long will the memory ofWiLLiAM^PAUL^be^treasured. For it is as arosarian that he is best known. Few, ifany, knew Rosesas he did ; few could moretruly gauge the public taste with regard tothem; few could grow them better; fewknew better how to display them to advan-tage. Comparatively early in his career wefind him advocating the culture of Roses inpots (thenanovelty), and inveighingagainst?the formal _ugliness that still characterisesthe ^ordinary Rose show. To the last he6howed_u3 by many examples the better andmoreartistic way of exhibiting Roses. Among! the Roses which he raised thefollowing aresome of the chief:— Beauty of_Waltham boapicea Clio coeallina Crown Prince Duke of Albany Earl of Warwick Ella Gordon Enchantress Little Gem (Mioss) LORD MacaulavMagna ChartaMedea Morning GlowPride of WalthamQiteen MabStar of WalthamStlphueea (Tea)White LadyWaltham Climber. But Roses did not monopolise Mr. Paulsattention. Hollyhocks, Hyacinths, Camel- The Late WILLIAM PAUL, art or science as his sphere of work. Cir-cumstances led him into a business career,in which he achieved success; but eitherliterature or art or science was assuredly theloser. We have sufficient proof of this inhis Conlrihutions to Horiicullural Literature,a book published in 1892, wherein hegathered up into a whole a small number ofhis contributions to the horticultural their perusal it is easy to appreciate theintelligent grasp of the subject he had inhand, easy to recognise the clear, fluent,sometimes trenchant style in which hiswritings were couched. He wrote becausehe had something to say, and what he saidhe said well. Loudon discovered his talents, and for ashort time he lent his aid to that indus-trious and zealous writer, who did so muchfor the spread of horticultural
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