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should be loth to part with, but if compelled to select six only, 

 he should be inclined to take General Jacqnen:iinot, Louis OJier, 

 Madame Plantier, Duchess de Brabant, Malmaison, and Letty 

 Coles. Madame -PJantier is a most excellent white rose, a free 

 spring bloomer, but blooms only once in the season. Small plants of 

 it are readily obtained, as it is advertised very extensively to be 

 sent by mail for ten cents each. Such plants must necessarily be 

 quite small and not always of healthy growth, but if obtained 

 early in the spring, and treated with the best of care, a few flowers 

 may be raised the first season, but, when means will permit, it 

 will be much more satisfactory to get larger plants. Most of us 

 caimot aflford the expense and must depend on time and care to 

 develop from the cutting or small plant the coveted treasure, but 

 then we shall prize it all the mofe. 



The cultivation of flowers is generally regarded as more ap- 

 propriate work for the ladies than for men. Surely they are 

 generally better fitted for it, on account of their taste and love 

 of the beautiful, and should all be interested in it ; but there is 

 no reason why men should not take the same interest in it, and 

 should not engage in it with as much pleasure and profit as 

 the ladies. It was a great source of pleasure and delight to 

 him, a rest after the care and labor of the day, to work in the 

 flower- garden, and he considered that it was m.ore satisfactory, 

 paid him better than any other branch of horticulture could, 

 Roses were his special favorites, but he cultivated many other 

 kinds of flowers. . He had tried the Ilydrangia (Grandiflora Panicu- 

 lata), brought a few years ago from Japan. It is said to be per- 

 fectly hardy, and to be able to endure our winters. The first 

 year he left it all winter out in the open air, and it came through 

 unharmed ; the second winter, fearing it would be killed down, 

 he put it into the cellar, but this seemed to weaken it, so that 

 it did not do as well as the first season. Last winter he left 

 it cut without any protection, and it came out in the spring all 

 right. He believed it was perfectly hardy, and worthy of gen- 

 eral cultivation, 



Mr. Kellogg said that the name Ilybrid Perpetual was not 

 strictly correct. These roses are not perpetual bloomers. There 



