Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25

there wer approximately $500 exhibits,
exclusive of decorative pieces and garden
roses. The society, established since 1876,
has held exhibitions in Crystal Palace,
st. Jamess hall, the Inner Temple, Lon
don, and as 1t is general rather than local
exhibitions have been held in other cities
all over the United Kingdom.
The decorative roses are exhibited each
bloom in a metal cup and perhaps a dozen
to a box, and row after row of these are
shown under a nomenclature strange to the
American visitor. There is Hebe's Lip, a
tea rose with a scarlet edge; Rosa Mundi,
a varlegated sort; Lady Ursula, cream
with a pinkish heart. 1t is impossible to
pass by the exhibitions from the old rose
gardens of Surrey, of Colchester, of Gov
entry without admiring glances. Ireland
sends many varieties, the Irish Beauty,
Irish Glory, Irish Harmony, Irish Ele-
gance. The prize takers in several classes
have to adhere to the rule of eighteen per-
feet blooms on a bush, and a specially at
~tractive one is Lady Faire, whose dozen
and a half roses are pink with dainty
Tipped petals.
You look In vain among the many shown
for the most wonderful rose in the world,
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covered. Finally. in a corner Of one Of
the distant marques a wilted bush meets
the eye; It has OF, IT a dozen or more single
petaled roses of a crude color, but It is
labeled largely, as il TO make amends by
generosity OF pasteboard for floral def
ciencies, America"
Aims of the Growers.
One of the exhibitors pointed out that
to the present time English and German
rose growers have devoted themselves TO
pure colors, while French exhibitors have
been occupied with tea and hybrid tea
blendings OF yellow and crimson. There
is at present, however, a color revolution
going on, and with 1t a revolution in color
definitions, OF which the language is sadly
deficient. having, in fact, no exact words
or the new tints and shades which are con-
stantly coming into notice. The French
has a new Repertoire de Couleurs, which,
II is expected. will be adopted as a stand
ard all over the world. These new tints
were the center Of attraction at the rose
show, the Irish apricots, the Dean Hole,
named for a former president, described
as silvery carmine; the Lyon rose shEimp
pink, with coral center shaded with chrome
yellow; the Madame MeIanie Soupert, SAT-
IRON yellON hulIuheu WIN pllh anu CAT
mine; Lady Pirrie, apricot at the base
flushed with rosy red and Capucine vel
low; the countess Of Shaftesbury, a large
hybrid tea exhibition rose, pale pink
flushed toward the edge with bright cherry
red.
The table decorations that fashion de
mands at present are very low and severa
examples were shown In one Of the tents
A specially notable one consisted OF q
series OF small silver bowls, with a large
one in the center, filled with the carmin'
roses OF Madame Abel Chatenay. cultivated
with the idea OF producing an excellenI
color for artificial light. With these deli,
cate fronds Of ferns we're artistically
mixed. and on another table nearby Wa'
shown a decoration consisting OF tint sill.
yer vases. with two tiny rose sprays Of ar
apricot tint and a bit Of green in each
deftly traced from one to another with 9