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of the plant itself ; the second, the bloom; the third, a perfect 

 plant, perfect bloom, true in color and shade, with purity of fra- 

 grance. Should we demand all these at once? 



We are furnished in the endless varieties something suitable 

 for all that fancy or taste may call for. To be sure, a rose is a 

 rose; but do we not want our particular rose for our particular 

 purpose? We can raise the tall and drooping varieties for a 

 graceful clump or stand, or fancifully cut or carve, until the 

 faithful plant is completely subjugated to our ideas of what we 

 require to suit our improvements upon nature, whether standing 

 in its own dignity, bound to the trelles or pillar, or waving 

 loosely in the hedge. 



What roses shall we cultivate? What kinds are best? Which 

 are the prettiest? Would you have any butperpetuals, &c, &c? 

 Who can answer the thousand and one questions in regard to 

 roses? 



I can only say, can any one turn aside from many of our old 

 faithful, single season varieties? What collection can be the 

 worse for having a season of bloom from the old Hundred Leaf? 

 The Damask, the Episcopal, George the 4th, Lady Elps-Parsons, 

 the Old Cabbage, the York and Lancashire, with many others. 

 Are they not a fitting prelude to a summer gladdened with the 

 successive bloom of the Le France, Gen. Washington, Gen. 

 Jacquimenot, Mad Plantier, Hermosa, Coquette of the Blanches, 

 Coquette des Alps, Mrs. Chas. Wood, Victor Verdier, American 

 Beauty, Bon Marche, Baroness of Rothchilds, and the family of 

 gigantic flowering Neyrous which with our climbers — Greville 

 and others — to which may be added the large family of mosses, 

 both single season and perpetual, which give us a perpetual 

 season of sweet surprises from frost go, to frost come, of this 

 beautiful queen of flowers, each variety in its season and place, 

 each in its own independent beauty, careful to repay us for care 

 bestowed, which they will do if we but give them a home to live 

 in when we ask them to tarry with us. 



ORCHARD FRUITS ON THE FARMS. 



BY H. M. DUNLAP, SAVOY. 



Mr. President : The subject of my paper implies tiiat the far- 

 mer's orchard and not that of the commercial orchardist will re- 

 ceive attention. No subject should be of greater interest to the 

 farmer than this of orchard fruits, but if we are to judge of the de- 

 gree of interest by outward manifestations, such as practical tree 

 planting and careful culture, we are forced to the conclusion that 

 the interest with many is largely theoretical if it exists at all. It 

 is said that man is a victim of circumstances, and to a certain de- 

 gree this is true, but when we see so many farm homes on the 



