THE DAILY MAIL ROSE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1067, 9 July 1912, Page 4

THE DAILY MAIL ROSE.

As the Queen came into the French tent at the Royal Show at Loudon in May, her attention was suddenly caught by a wonderful group of roses. It attracted her notice even though it lay on the other side of a bank of rhododendrons, and she stopped to point out the unusual beauty of the flowers to those who were with her.

Most striking of all among these splendid blooms was the seedling rose plant shown by M. J. PernetDucher, which was afterwards awarded The Daily Mail Gold Cup. The cup had been offered for the best'new rose in two classes for climbers or seedlings. The new rose is perhaps the most conspicuous of all the novelties at tins great show, and has already attracted great attention. The “inventor,” M. PernetDucher, of Vennissieux - less - Lyons, Rhone, France, may be called the most famous of all rosemakers. This “creation” is of the new colour, a ruddy bronze, deeper and richer than the Lyon rose, with the deep blue-green leaf. It is a sliong grower, and a very striking group of plants is shown. It may be classed as a decorative rose and will add a new colour to the garden. The Daily Mail rose has taken at least ten years to produce, so many processes of crossing ana testing have been necessary. The parent oi the fine race ot roses, of which The Daily Mail rose is the last, was Soleil d’Ora, the well’known yellow rose, which the “inventor” obtained by crossing the Persian yellow with the pink Antoine Ducher. Preceding the new rose were Beaute de Lyon, Rayon d’Ora, and Lyons.