"A ROSE BY OTHER NAME."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10717, 30 October 1912, Page 4

"A ROSE BY OTHER NAME."

The approaching rose show in Mastertop' lends interest to a paragraph that is going the rounds, to the effect that the Frau Karl Druschki, which has reigned supreme for years among white roses, has l>een dethroned, and British Queen reigns in her stead. The newcomer was first seen in public at the autumn show of the National Rose Society in London, and was at once declared by one of the judges to he "the greatest white rose^tha£.has ever been raised," while another asserted that it was "the rose of the century." It has all the good points of Frau Druschki —where do so many of; ;the a good rose s get their v i,^|nazuig v ■names ?—and others. It is of eh'ornious size, of elegant form, with curved and pointed petals of great substance, and it has the additional charm of delightful fragrance, the true "tea" scent. Like many other good things, it'comes from Ireland, from the garden of Mr MoGredy, of Portadown, a rose-grower.. It took him ten bbenwell rewarded.■■■■.' ; ;