A NOTABLE ROSE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1776, 14 June 1913, Page 5

A NOTABLE ROSE.

The selection of the queen of the Mayday rose show —the first ever held in the spring at the Royal Horticultural Hall — was never in doubt. Mme. Edouard Herriot, the "Daily Mail" roso, may be said to have como out for the enjoyment of her first season (states the "Daily Mail" of May 2). • ■ Tho rose was unlike other roses when tho prize was given last year at the Chelsea show, but then few people saw in it the depth and variety of perfection of colour which it has attained in tho first year of thorough cultivation. Half a dozen great bowls of it, exhibited by Messrs. Beckwith, of Hoddesdon, near Hertford,were the crowning -wonder of a very wonderful show. Peoplo talked of little else. It was amusing to hear the ingenious endeavours of specialists to describe tho colour. Flame colour, flamingo salmon, cardinal, purple, cinnabar crimson were a few of the more modest efforts. Probably no rose in the world shows quite such a riot of deep colour, and the foliage is of as brilliant a green; Even the French "creator" is astounded at tho development of his "creation," and its colour is tho more remarkable that its parents are a briar and a "mongrel" rose that was not thought good enough to put into commerce. , Half an hour before this rose show—a new experiment in shows—was declared open a great queue of people, -well representing London society was extending down the street, and motor-cars had to pull up a long way short of the hall. It was a great tribute to the flower of flowers. And the show was worthy of the. interest. It was full of novelties.