YELLOW ROSES.

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 42, 27 March 1930, Page 9

YELLOW ROSES.

Rose culture not only maintains its. popularity, but its appreciation is constantly growing. ~

Although Golden Emblem, Florence Izzard, and Mabel Morse, all yellow roses which everybody-loves, have been grown foT some years, it is only now ■that they are being grown really well. Tho success of old T-osarians lay in •the fact that they found out some particular treatment which a certain rose prof erred, and thus showed it at its best. ...-•""

By treatment is implied drainage, a deep soil, the supply of the eorreet raw materials, which go to the manufacture of food, their frequency in administration,, the general tending, care and the prevention of and freedom from disease. To tihese may be added the free access of sunlight and air the ripening off of current year's wood, an-d suitable p-runing for any particular named rose. Present-day, examples are George Dickson and Maieehial Niel, as exMbited by certain growers year after year. The exhibitors have mastered the peculiarities of these roses and can always show them, at their best.

Of tie three yellow roses mentioned,

■Golden Emblem was the first to respond to treatment, and_ comes perfect year after year. The outer row of guard petals open out into a perfect round. The inner row of guard petals are placed almost at right angles to the outer ones, also ma perfect circle m wirieV itlhe inner petals are symmetrically enclosed. The colour is clear deep lumin©us yellow, an intense Cthinese yellow, -pure and good—a sheer delight to toehold, The petals are of "great substance, and the colour fades ever so sMghtly as the flower ages. Hitherto the col out iias faded only too rapidly

in all three roses. -Golden Emblem ia a glorious rose, full of perfume of that typical Noisette Eose Mareehial NieV It resents manure in any; form, but requires plenty of Oak leaf moud.. It does perfectly in either heavy clay 01 ligiht, sandy soil.

Florence-Lezard is the deepest yellow rose known, and the colour, an intense deep, cleaT yellow, almost verging on orange in depth is. quit© fast and does not s fade when properly grown. The •colouring is retained to the very last 5 in shape not unlike Golden Emblem, but it does not open out so wide. Florence Izzard is a lovely flower with the same delicious scent of Golden Emblem, but requires constant attention, otiheTwise the petals come numerous and Jomg., VThef roots wilOi not t&eirwta drought and the plant requires but lit■tle lime and more potash than most roses. A little cow manure with. th« leaf-mould is beneficial,^ Mabel Morse has been tJhe last to respond to treatment. Both- the oute* and inner guard petals are fewer and larger, particularly in width, t&an either Golden Emblem or Florence la«ard, which tends to less refinement than tihe two last-named roses. There is not so

much difference between .the inner guard -petals and— t&e inner petals, giving a Jlower of totally different construction. Nevertheless, Mabel Morse is a very beautiful flower with greater substance in tike petals than either of her rivals. When cotrectly grown the colour fades but slightly witk age. Mable Morse responds' to more phos> phaite than potash and Tesents any man* UTe wMch tends to give a coarseness to -the petals.

All three roses must iave perfect drainage, be always in moist soil, and Tesent drought. Julien Potin, the n«#eat golden-yellow rose, promises to be the best of all, but until more oftesa shown and grown it is. not possible to

be sure,