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Bourbon. — Hermosa — rose; S. de la Malmaison — blush; Queen 

 Bedders — dark crimson ; Mad. Bosanquet — flesh color ; Louis 

 Margottin — rose ; Alfred Aubert — bright red. 



Hybrid tea. — La France — silvery pink ; Due de Connaught — 

 crimson. 



Tea. — Duchess de Brabant — rosy salmon ; Duchess of Edinburgh 

 — crimson ; Etoile de Lyon — light 3'ellow ; Bougere — bronze rose ; 

 Bon Silene — deep rose ; Catherine Mermet — pink ; Mme. Welch — 

 amber yellow ; Mme. Rachel — yellowish white ; Maria Guillot — 

 white ; Devoniensis — creamy white ; Sunset — light amber ; Souvenir 

 d'un Amie — rose. 



Hybrid perpetual. — Gen. Jacqueminot — crimson ; Coquette des 

 Alps — white ; Captain Christy — flesh color ; Victor Yerdier — cherry ; 

 Magna Charta — clear pink ; La Reine — deep rose ; vS3'donia — light 

 rose ; Anna de Diesbach — clear rose ; Jules Margottin — deep rose ; 

 Giant of Battles — crimson; Gen. Washington — crimson; Paul 

 Neyron — deep pink ; one of the largest roses, if not the largest. 



SEEDLING AND RUSSIAN APPLES. 

 By Peter M. Gideon. 



[From Report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, 1887.] 



It is with pleasure that I comply with your request to give my 

 views on Russian and seedling apples. The seedling has been m}' 

 hobbv for the last sixteen vears, and the success attained sfives me 

 hope that not far in the future the cold Northwest will be one of the 

 leading apple-growing districts of North America. 



Tweutj'-three years ago I planted a few cherry crab seeds, ob- 

 tained of Albert Emerson, Bangor, Maine, and from those seeds I 

 grew the Wealthy apple ; in seven years it fruited, and that fruit 

 convinced me that the true road to success was in crossing the Sibe- 

 rian crab with the common apple, and on that line I have operated 

 ever since, with results surpassing my most sanguine anticipations. 

 I did not suppose that in the short space of sixteen years, the time 

 since the Wealthy first fruited, that I should have more than twenty 

 first-class apples — as good as the world can produce — in succession 

 from the first of August to March, and in hardiness of tree surpass- 

 ing all known varieties of the common large apple. But it is done, 

 and in the doing the problem is solved, as to what to do and how to 



